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Thomas P. Newman died with tragic suddenness at Haslemere Station on 

 the morning of November 10th. Mr. Newman, who was born in 1S46, was the 

 son of the well-known Entomologist Edward Newman, P.L.S. ; and as the head 

 of the artistic and publishing firm of West, Newman & Co., he continued up 

 to his death to publish the two valuable Natural History periodicals, the 

 " Zoologist" and the " Entomologist," founded many years ago by his father, 

 whose scientific tastes he inherited to a considerable extent. From 1878 to 

 1895 he was a Fellow of the Entomological Society. 



Entomologicai, Society of London : Wednesday, Oct 20th, 1915. — The 

 Hon. N. C. EoTHSCHiLD, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles Ernest Stott, Woodcroft, Eglington Road, Chingford, Essex, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild exhibited some examples of an Anthrocera 

 (Zygaena) bred from cocoons found in a marsh near Camberley, which, though 

 found in a marshy situation, apparently resembled in all respects the " dry " 

 chalk-down form of A. trifolii. Mr. H. J. Turner expressed the belief that the 

 specimens were ordinary A. trifolii and not var. palustris; other Fellows con- 

 curred, and several instances were mentioned of ordinary trifolii being found in 

 damp localities. Prof. Povilton brought forward an account, written by 

 Dr. Carpenter, of the life-history of Papilio hesperus Westw., and the 

 resemblance of its larva to that of P. nobilis Rog. Prof. Poulton also brought 

 forward some observations, recorded in a letter dated September 1st, 1915, by 

 Mrs. D. R. Fyson, on the proportions of the female forms of Papilio polytes L., 

 in the neighbourhood of Madras city. The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited British 

 Lycaenids, taken in July and early August this j'car: — (1) Polyommatus icarus 

 Rott., from the Durham coast, remarkable for their large size and the brilliant 

 tint of the S S ■ (2) Plebeius acqon var. masseyi Tutt, the form from the 

 northern mosses, the <? S bright blue, with very narrow black border and con- 

 spicuous black marginal spots on the hind-wing, the ? $ strongly suffused with 

 blue. (8) Aricia medon Hiifn., from the Durham coast, including almost typical 

 specimens, also var. salmacis, as described by Stephens, the (J with a black dis- 

 coidal spot on the upper-side of the fore-wing, the $ with a white one, ab. similis 

 Tutt, ab. albiannulata Harr., ab. vedrae Harr., with its extreme form ab. obsoleta 

 Obth., ab. semivedrae Harr., and ab. inclara Harr., this specimen being also some- 

 what striated. To these were added a few var. artaxerxes F., from Kinghorn. 

 Mr. E. E. Green, a specimen of a Mantis from Ceylon, together with a Gordius 

 worm that had emerged from it ; also specimens of the re-discovered British 

 Coccid Gossyparia ulmi Geott'r. (or spuria of Modeer — according to the American 

 authorities), collected by Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, on a Cornish elm at Farnham, 

 Surrey. Mr. Donisthorpe, two remarkable mixed gynandromorphs of Myrmica 

 scabrinodis taken in the same colony at Weybridge, July 30th, 1915. Dr. F. A. 



