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the Society was satisfactory financially. The Council's report of Ihe position and 

 progress of tlie Society was Ihen read, and showed that its position of usefulness 

 was still maintained. 'I'he President then read his Annual Address, including in it 

 remarks on the progress of Entomology generally during the past year. Votes of 

 Thanks were unanimously passed to the retiring Officers and Council. The follow- 

 ing is a list of those gentlemen elected to serve as Officers and Council for the 

 ensuing year : — President. R. Adkin, F.E.S. Vice-Presidentx, W. J. 'Kaye,¥.^.S., 

 aiul H. Main, B.Sc, F.E.S. Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. 

 Dods. Curator, W. West (Greenwich). Hon. Seereiaries, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., 

 and Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Council, F. B. Carr, T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., 

 A. Harrison, F.L.S., A. L. Eayward, F.E.S., A. Sich, F.E.S., R. South, F.E.S., and 

 E. Step, F.L.S. 



Ordinary Meeting: Miss Margaret Fountaine, F.E.S., of West Hampstead, 

 was elected a Member. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited a series of Boarmia repandata, mainly 

 from Tsle of Man parents, with series from Cornwall, Delamere, and Isle of Lewis, 

 and contributed notes on their occurrence and variation. The captured Isle of Man 

 specimens were taken settling on rocks. Mr. Main, a living larva of Charaxes 

 jasius, received from the South of France, and called attention to its wonderful 

 coloration, shape, and to the fact that the curious mask of the head is shed as a 

 whole. 



Thvraday, February \Ath, 1907.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Goulton exhibited a series of Hybernia defoliaria, bred from Ranmore 

 Common larvae, most of the imagines being dark and more or less uniform. 

 Mr. Newman, pupse of Asteroscopus nubeculosa of a ti-ansjiarent green colour, just 

 like pupse when first changed, and also spun-together tufts of reeds containing pupae 

 of Meliana flammea. Mr. Eayward, a young living larva of Strymon w-album, 

 which he had cut out of an egg in mid-January ; it was still alive, although 

 normally perfectly quiescent. Mr. Tutt noted that the species hibernated as a 

 larva within the egg shell. Dr. Chapman, a large very brown Callophrys rubi from 

 the Riviera, with antennae brown beneath, and two examples of the same species 

 set to show position of " tails " of the wings when resting. Mr. Adkin, a series of 

 Eubolia eervinata reared from Eastbourne larvae, and stated that the larvae could 

 only be found at night. Mr. Kaye, a long series of Heliconius hydara, sub sp. colum- 

 Una, with a pair of JT. amarylUs, sub sp. rosina, from Colombia to show the extra- 

 ordinary colour resemblance of the two species. Mr. Harrison, for Mr. Mansbridge, 

 a long series of Aqrotis ashtoorthii, bred from North Wales larvae, and read notes on 

 the breeding, habits of the larvae, and variation of the resultant imagines, of which 

 about 24 °j^ were very dark. Mr. Hy. J. Turner read a paper entitled, ' Our Authori- 

 ties. An Introduction to Entomological Literature," illustrating his remarks by a 

 number of volumes issued previously to 1800, exhibited by Messrs. Adkin, Edwards, 

 Sich, and himself. Miss Fountaine exhibited (1) the very local form of the summer 

 brood of Pieris napi, var.Jlavescens, from Modling, near Vienna ; (2) P. daplidice, 

 var. bellidice, from Aix-en-Provence, and ab. raphani from Algeria ; (3) P. ehloridice 

 from Asia Minor ; (4) Anthocharis cardamines and its allies, A. gruneri from 

 Greece, A. damone from Syria, A. euphenoides from South France, A. etipheno from 



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