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pelina, from Llangollen larvse. Mr. Edwards, series of c? s and ? s of Gonepteryx 

 rhamni and O. cleopatra, to illustrate their distinctions ; Mr. Tutt said that he felt 

 quite sure, from observation of their habits, that the two were distinct species. 

 Mr. G. T. Porritt, a male specimen of tlie dragon-fly, /Eschna isoftceles, one of a 

 series taken this year in the Norfolk Broads ; also a specimen of Orthetrum cancel- 

 latum from the same place. Mr. Lucas, J and ? specimens of the local grasshopper, 

 Goniphocerus rufus, from Bookham Common, and said it was easily recognised by its 

 white tipped clubbed antennae. Mr. Turner, specimens of the larvae of Phorodesma 

 smaragdaria from the Essex Marshes. Mr. Dodds, an example of Locusta viridis- 

 sima from Felixstowe. Mr. West, three out of the five British species of 

 Chatocnema (Plectroscelis), viz., C. -subccerulea, C. hortensis, and C. confusa, 

 from Wisley. Mr. Brown, an almost black example of Xylophasia polyodon, Phiba- 

 lapteryx lignata, and Hydracia nivtilans, \. paludis, from Deal. — Uy. J. Turner, 

 Son. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : October 5th, 1904. — Professor E. B. 

 POULTON, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. W. Beresford Watson, of St. Martin's Vicarage, Barbados, West 

 Indies, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. G. H. Verrall exhibited specimens of («) Callicera yerhuryi, Verr., a 

 Syrphid new to science, taken this year in Scotland by Col. J. W. Yerbury, and (6) 

 C. senea, ¥., the other British species of the genus, together with three European 

 species of Callicera from the collections of Bigot and Kowarz, C. macquartii, Bond., 

 C. s/>iMote, Bond., and C. porrii, Bond. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, Tetropiumfus- 

 cum, F. ( S and $ ), and eight specimens of Ahdera i-fasciata, Curt., all taken by 

 him at Market Bosworth, Leicestersliire, in July, 1904. The Rev. F. D. Morice, the 

 cells of two wasps, Polistes gaUicus and Eumenes coarctatus, found by him in the 

 Balearic Islands. Mr. A. J. Chitty, specimens of the earwig Apterygida media, 

 Hagenb., taken at Huntingfield and Charing, Kent, this year. Mr. W. J. Lucas, a 

 living specimen of Labidura riparia, ^ , from the shoi'e near Christchurch, Hants, 

 kept alive for more than a month, and fed upon fruit, meat, &c. ; he also exhibited 

 a lantern-slide, showing the threatening attitude assumed by this earwig when dis- 

 turbed. Prof. T. Hudson Beare, on behalf of Mr. C. J. C. Pool, who was present as a 

 visitor, specimens of Aulonium sulcatum, Oliv., a species of Coleoptera new to the 

 British fauna. Mr. W. Dannatt, a specimen of Papilio homerus from the Blue 

 Mountains, Jamaica, a species believed to be confined to that island, together with 

 coloured drawings of the larva painted by Lady Blake, and lent him by Mrs. E. M. 

 Swainson, of Baltimore, U.S.A., who had bred the species. He also exhibited three 

 new butterflies, Chlorippe godmani,ivo\n Venezuela, Delias hempeli, from Gilolo, and 

 Monethe johnstoni, from British Guiana. Dr. T. A. Chapman, for Mr. Hugh Main, 

 a unique teratological specimen of Arctia caja, bred this year ; the insect had a 

 three-fold hind-wing on the left side, immediately below the costa the wing divided 

 into three layers, each of which was apparently a normal wing so far as form, colour 

 and markings went, but which, when the insect was alive were so closely applied to 

 each other as to look like one normal wing, till by blowing between them or in 

 some other way they were separated. Mr. F. Merrifield, some pod-like galls found 



