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Trifurcula imynuvdelhi from Surrey, and road notes on the liabils of the imagines 

 and larvae, and giving the cliaracterist ies of the ova. Dr. Chapman, bred specimens 

 of Arctia fascintn, from ova obtained by him in Spain. Mr. Main, a long series of 

 photographs of the life-hi.«tory of Cliaraxes jnsius. Mr. Soufh, a sjiecimen of 

 AgrinJcs coryilon ab. syvgrnplia, from Wiltshire. Mr. Tutt read a paper, " Egg- 

 laying of the Brenthids " (Rhopnlncera), and a considerable discussion took place. 



Thursday, September 26th, 1907 — Mr. HuGil Main, B.Sc, Vice-President, in 

 the Clialr. 



Dr. Q-. C. Hodgson, of Red Hill, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited a living larva of CuculUa nsteris from Sussex, and showed 

 some stereographic views he had made of insects at rest. Mr. Ashby, .series of 

 Donacia crassipe? from the New Forest, D. clavipes from Wicken, and Hfemonin curti'^ii 

 from Gravesend. Miss Fountaine, both sexes of the two broods of Pieris ergane, the 

 spring specimens from Montenegro, and the autumn from Hercegovina. Mr New- 

 man, a very large number of varieties and forms of the various species of Lepidaptera 

 bred and captured by him during the present season. Mr. Simmons, a series of 

 llemrrnphila ahruptaria bred by him from a dark wild ? crossed with a bred typical 

 ^, including a very fine gynandrous example, the left side the ordinary ? colour, 

 while the right side had the very dark form of c? characters. Messrs. Harrison 

 and Main, a portion of a brood of Acidalia anersata, all of which followed the 

 colour and markings of banded parents. Mr. Qadge, a fine variety of Abraxas 

 grossnlariatn, with mere remnants of the usual black markings, captured on 

 Denmark Hill. Mr. G-oulton, a bred series of Etichlo'e cardamines of unusual size, 

 particularly the ^ s. Mr. Main, ova of Pararge egeria, in sitH on grass, and living 

 larvEB of Phorndesina smoragdaria. Mr. Cootc, (I) living larvfe of Celastrina 

 argiolus on ivy berries from Eastbourne ; (2) a specimen of Agriad.es corydon 

 var. obsoleta from Eastbourne. Mr. Turner, seines of Parnassius deliiis and Crdias 

 palseno taken in the Engadine in August. Mr. Sich, (1) Tinenlti biselliella, bred 

 specimens of large size, the larvse fed on red cloth ; (2) Borlchauscnia pseudospretella 

 from larvae found in flax seed by Mr. W. West. Dr. Chapman, (1) Plebeius argus 

 (regon), uniformly dark on the upper side ; and (2) larvje of Cleogene peleteriaria 

 with imagines from Gavarnie, with specimens of C. idveata from Carinthia for 

 comparison.— Ht. J. Titener, Hnn. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, October 2nd, 1907. — 

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



Mr. W. Perrins, Junior, of Davenham, Malvern, and Mr. Frank Milburn 

 Hewlett, of the Agricultural Department, Pusa, Bengal, India, were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice gave an account of his reception as the representative 

 of the Society, and of the celebrations of the University of Upsala, and of the 

 Academy of Science at Stockholm, at which he was present. 



