92 [April, 



Algeria, A. helemia and A. falloul from the desert dial riot in Algeria, A. pechi 

 and A. charlonla i'rom Sont.h Algeria, A. fagii<i,va.v. Mlezina, from Aix-en-Provence, 

 nd var. insuJaris from Cor.-ica. 



Thursday, February 28(h, 1907.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. H. W. Barter and Mr. F. D. Coote, of Cam berwell, were elected Members. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited (1) a pupa of Hastula hyerana showing the jaws; 

 (2) a specimen of Capinn alia with a triple tarsus to the right hind leg ; (3) a 

 short series of T,eiopfilu>t carpliodactyhts, a plume new to Britain, taken at Folke- 

 stone by Mr. Purdey ; and (4) some fine varieties of Peronea eristana. Mr. South, 

 an extremely pallid specimen of Satyriix semele taken near Canterbury. Mr. Lucas, 

 specimens of Hyhernia lencopliearla from Oxshott. Mr Rayward, ova of a 

 " thorn " laid in a row on a twig of blackthorn. Mr. Newman, cocoons of 

 Dicranura hicuspis on birch bark overgrown with lichen from Tilgate Forest. 

 Mr. Turner, Coleoptera from Waroona, West Australia. Mr. Adkin, long varied 

 series of Dianthoecia carpophaqa from the South Downs, and gave notes on them. 

 A large number of lantern slides were exhibited by Messrs. Lucas, Main, West 

 (Ashtead), Dennis and Tonge, illustrating life-histories, protective resemblance, 

 egg capsules of Blatta, spp., ova of Lepidoptera, &c. — Hy. J. Tttrnku, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, Felruary Cith, 1907.— 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated Mr. Fi-ederick Merrifield, 

 Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S., and Mr. George Henry Verrall to be Vice- 

 Presidents for the Session 1907-8. 



Mr. Charles Kimberlin Brain, of 23, Burnside Road, Tamboers Kloof, Cape 

 Colony; Mrs. Catherine Maria Moore, of Holmefield, Oakholme Road, Sheffield ; 

 and Mr. Alfred Ernest Tonge, of Aincroft, Reigate ; were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Mr. E. A. Cockayne brought for exhibition a collection of Lepidoptera made 

 by him at Tongue, North Sutherlandshire, between June 30th and July 13th, 1906 

 comprising many species not hitherto reported from the county. It was noticeable 

 that the several species showed little tendency to melanism. Dr. T. A. Chapman 

 exhibited fifteen specimens of Hastula hyerana. Mill., to demonstrate how it may 

 vary under the circumstances of late emergence. The majority of those he had last 

 year emerged in August, September and October, to the number of over 400 speci- 

 mens, in the pale {hyerana) and the dark {marginal a) form. In November four 

 pale and three dark specimens emerged ; these are very decidedly darker than the 

 darkest of the earlier emergences. Four specimens came out in December, all of 

 them hyerana. Three of these were males, and were remarkably dark forms, like 

 nothing amongst the preceding specimens. The effect of cold, he said, is to produce 

 darkening as it appears to be the case in a majority of temperature experiments. 

 Miss M. E. Fountaine, a number of Anthocharid and ilelitaeid butterflies from 

 various localities in Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa, showing a wide range 

 of variation. The President, a female example of the genus Dorylus, sent to the 



