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S. J. Capper, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. J. H. Bailey. M.B., Port Erin, E J. B. 

 Sopp, F.R.Met.S., Prof. E. B. Poulton, D.Se., M.A., F.R.S., J. R. Charnley, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S., Dr. H. H. Corbett, Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S. ; Treasurer, Dr. J. Cotton, 

 F.E.S. ; Secretaries, H. R. Sweeting, M.A., Wm. Mansbridge, W. D. Harrison ; 

 Editor, J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., F.E.S. ; Librarian, F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. ; 

 Council, J. Kidson Taylor, W. Webster, M.R.S A.I., F. R. Dixon-Nuttall, F.R.M.S., 

 Dr. P. F. Tinne, M.A., MB., the Rev. T. B. Eddrup, M.A., C. E Stott, R. Tait, 

 Junr., Dr. P. Edwards, J. Collins, R. Wilding, 0. Whittaker, Dr. W. Bell, J.P. 



After the formal business of the Meeting, the retiring Vice-President, Prof. T. 

 Hudson Beare, B.Sc, F.E.S., of Edinburgh, communicated his address to the 

 Society. The Professor, after detailing the chief scientific achievements of Ento- 

 mologists during 1906, made a number of interesting and valuable suggestions for 

 individual as well as collective furtherance of our studies, and instanced the 

 remarkable work accomplished by such diligent investigators as Dr. Joy and 

 Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe and others among the rarer or least known Coleoptera 

 occurring in Great Britain. A vote of thanks to the author was proposed by 

 Mr. Wilding, and seconded by Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, F.R.Met.S., and it was resolved 

 to print the paper in the Society's proceedings. 



The following exhibits were made by the Members : — Dr. Cotton, a long series 

 of C. typlion, var. rothliebii, from Witherslack, a series of Li/emna asirarche, var. 

 salmacis, from N. Lancashire, and a series of Noctua glareosa from Delamere. By 

 M. R. Sweeting, a number of Cynthia cardui from Eastbourne, a specimen of 

 Deilephila livornica taken at light in Knowsley Park last June, Macaria liturata 

 and its var. nigrofulvata from Delamere, and Lyesena iearus and L. corydon 

 from Eastbourne. Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., a box of Lepidoptera from India. 

 Mr. J. J. Richardson brought moths collected in the neighbourhood of Bidston, 

 Cheshire, at ivy bloom :^A series of Himera pennaria, Cerastis vaceinii, Ltiperina 

 testacea, the last from Wallasey, and Hyhernia defoliaria from Sefton Park, Liver- 

 pool. Mr. W. Mansbridge showed Carpocapsa nimbana and SciapMla communana 

 from the London district, received from Mr. A. Thurnall of Croydon. 



The Hon. Treasurer's report showed the Society to be in a satisfactory position. — 

 H. R. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, Son. Sees. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, December \Zth, 1906.— Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited (1) series of Anticlea rtibidata from N. 

 Cornwall and from Devon, the former less red and generally greyer ; and (2) a bred 

 series of Chesias spartiata. Mr. Goulton, photographs of larvae in their feeding 

 and resting positions. Mr. Garrett, series of Euchloe cardamines, Agriades cory- 

 don, Urblcola cotnma, TrypJixna fimbria, and Limenitis sibylla, the last named 

 from Arundel. Mr. Kaye,a number of Syntomid moths from British Guiana, which 

 showed strong constriction, or colour simulating constriction, in the basal segments 

 of the abdomen, thus much resembling species of Hymenoptera, of which many 

 were also exhibited. Messrs. Rayward and Tonge, ova of Bithys (Thecla) quercus 

 in situ below the winter buds of oak ; they were from Ranmore Common. Mr. 



