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right side, while the left was only faintly coloured, and also a varied series of $ 

 and 9 Polyommatux icarux from Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. Dr. Frenilin, two 

 fine varieties of Aglain urticHt of the same race as those previously shown by 

 Mr. Newman. Mr. McArthur, spiders with their snare and prey, mounted between 

 two sheets of glass. Mr. Turner, a series of Colias phicomone from the Engadine, 

 and a number of Lepidoptera from Q-uethary, Cauterets, and Gavarnie, including 

 some extreme forms of Pararge rrnera. Messrs. West, Tonge, Main, Dennis, and 

 Lucas, a considerable number of lantern slides. 



Correction September 12th. Agriades corydon ah. syngrapha was from Surrey, 

 not Wiltshire. — Hy. J. Tttrneb, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, October Idth, 1907.— 

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



Mr. P. H. Jackson was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. A. II. Jones exhibited a series of Pieris napi var. bn/onife, from com- 

 paratively low altitudes, taken in June last at Peszer, near Buda-Pesth, showing 

 a wide range of variation. Mr. W. J. Lucas, for Mr. M. Burr, examples of 

 Apteryqida albipennis, discovered by him near Dover this year ; and a S specimen 

 of B. verrueivorus — an inhabitant of Scandinavia— from the same locality taken 

 by Mr. Burr. It is about as large as Locusia viridissinia, but looks quite different, 

 characters in the elytra and head preventing it even being placed in the same genus. 

 Mr. H. Campion, a specimen of the rare Orthopteron Platycleis roeselii, Hagenb., 

 $ , taken September 13th, 1907, near Heme Bay, and Mr. E. W. Campion, an 

 aberrant specimen of S. .^anguineum, g , from Epping Foi'est, suggesting relation- 

 ship with certain Orthoptera. Mr. Lucas also showed two examples of Calopteryx 

 virgo from the New Forest showing failure in pigment. Mr. W. J. Kaye, speci- 

 mens of Callicore aurelia, Guen., together with a photograph of its larva, showing 

 the remarkable branch-like horns rising out of the head. The whole life cycle is 

 but nineteen days. The Rev. F. D. Morice, side by side, a normal <J specimen 

 of the Anthidium manicatum, L. (the "Hoop-shaver Bee" of Gilbert White's 

 " Natural History of Selborne"), and a monstrosity or malformation of the same 

 insect, given to him as a curiosity by M. Vachal, of Argentat, CorrSze. He also 

 sent round a photograph of the two insects magnified, or rather of their abdomens, 

 that being the part in which the malformation appears, and described the nature 

 of it. Dr. T. A. Chapman said this malformation had clearly no causation in any 

 larval injury, but dated from an early period of embryonic life. The President, 

 a living ant, a species of Camponotus, which had been found by Mr. Watson at 

 Kew, in a pseudobulb of an orchis (probably a Bidbophyllum) from the Gold Coast. 

 The bulb was much excavated, but it had no opening by which the ant could have 

 entered. He also exhibited a large wasp from German E. Africa (a Salius allied 

 to dedjax) with a spider, a Mygale rather larger than itself, but which it had 

 captured and was carrying off. Lt.-Col. Neville Manders, a melanic variety of 

 Se.ttina nama, captured near Darjeeling ; and a monstrosity of Papilio krishna 

 from Sikkim, in which the wings on the right side were much larger than those on 

 the left. Mr. H. Main, the larva of a Hymenopterous parasite of Pygxra buce- 

 phala, of great size comparatively to its host. 



