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DECEMBER VM, 1920. 



Mr. J. J. Joicey, F.E.S., Witley, Surrey ; Mr. G. Talbofc, F.E.S., 

 Witley ; Mr, A. J. Wightman, Lewes ; and Mr. L. Ford, Bexley, 

 were elected members of the Society. 



Mr. Sparring exhibited a Cassid beetle of the genus Aspido- 

 morplia from Central Uganda, said to be very rare in that locality. 

 It was of a brilliant golden hue when alive. 



Mr. Main made a series of remarks on the life-history of ants, 

 and illustrated the methods and difficulties met with in keeping 

 them in artificial formicaria. For food he gave hone}', flies, cater- 

 pillars, stick-insects, etc. 



Mr. Buckstone exhibited further series of dwarf Agriades cori.iion 

 from the Surrey locality in 1920, also examples of a second brood 

 of Eiiphi/ia [Ci(laria) picata bred in captivity. 



Mr. Bowman exhibited aberrations of Pobjinnuiatus icariis from 

 Folkestone, one specimen having exceptionally heavy spots, and 

 spots united into an arc on the inner margin. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited two specimens of Bithys qiterciis 

 ab. major from Cornwall, and an asymmetrical example of Coeno- 

 nyinpha paiiiphiliit;. 



Mr. Goodman exhibited a pupa of Hyles eitphorlnae from a full- 

 fed larva taken on July 27th, 1920, in the Val Ferret, Courmayeur, 

 N. Italy. 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited a specimen of Ilniiiicia phlacas with 

 the outer row of spots on the forewings much reduced in size ; it 

 had been named ab. parvipiiucta. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of PUjckopmla [Acvhdia) 

 dimiiliata {sciitidata), together with the cocoons from which they 

 had emerged, and contributed the following note : — " On July 9th, 

 1919, I happened to box a female of this species on the Parade at 

 Eastbourne, and she deposited some two dozen eggs ; these hatched 

 on the 23rd, and the larva? fed on dandelion and knotgrass, etc., 

 until the end of September, when 22 were counted on the more or 

 less dried-up food-plants, on which they were left in an airy cage 

 for the winter, a dandelion leaf or a little piece of Crepu being 

 added occasionally. On March 20th, 1920, the whole 22 larvae 

 being found to be alive, they were removed to a clean cage and 

 supplied with dandelion, Galiinn, and hawthorn, the buds of which 

 were just expanding. For a time, at any rate, they appeared to 

 prefer the hawthorn. They were full fed by the beginning of May, 

 and all pupated between the 2nd and 30th of that month. 



