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Coleojjhora solinelln. from the seeds of Chenopodium maritim^lm. He also 

 exhibited coloured figures of a dozen striking aberrations of Dryas paphia. 

 Mr. H. Mooi'e, Agriades roridon ab. semisyngra2)ha and ab. roystonensis, with an 

 asymmetrical male from Koyston Mr. Frohawk, an unique form of *Arctia caja 

 with the fore-wings uniformly chocolate and hind-wings almost wholly black, 

 with several others less striking, bred from larvae taken in the Scilly Isles. 

 Mr. Wolley Dod, a Saturnia pnvonia female in which the antennae were con- 

 siderably pectinated. Mr. Bimnett, a glow-worm, Lampyris noctiluca, with the 

 tibia of the hind leg on the right side bifurcate. Mr. Carr, a living Platyptilia 

 gonodactyla taken in the City. Several specimens of Amorpha populi had been 

 taken by members, and it was suggested that they belonged to a second brood. 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, .October 4-th, 1916. — 

 Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., E.N., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Howard M. Peebles, 13, Chesham Street, S.W., was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



A vote of condolence with Mrs. Trimeu. on the death of her husband, a 

 former President of the Society, was passed unanimously. 



Mr. P. A. Buxton called the attention of the Society to some remarkable 

 work published in the Ann. Inst. Pasteur (Paris) for July and August, 1916. 

 A plague of the locvist ( Schistocerca peregrina) has been sviccessfully stayed in 

 Morocco by infecting a few thousands with the cocco-bacillus of a fatal enteritis. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited <? (? , ? ? , and 5 $ of Myrmiea schencM Emery, 

 discovered at Sully, Glamorganshire, by Mr. Hallett last year, and identified 

 and introduced as British by himself. Mr. L. W, Newman, two leaden-coloured 

 S i oi Agriades thetis and a curious ^ having part of the wings leaden colour 

 and part the normal blue ; all taken on the wing in September, 1916, in East 

 Kent. Mr. O. E. Janson, a male specimen of Carahus catenulatus, showing 

 arrested development in the left posterior leg ; an example of Tetropium gabrieli, 

 in which the right antenna consisted of only eight joints and bore a basal 

 branch of three joints ; and a specimen of Dorcadion egregmm from Mongolia, 

 exhibiting a very rare instance of an almost symmetrical duplication of a limb, 

 both of the antennae bearing a short three-jointed branch arising from the 

 large basal joint, the antennae themselves being otherwise normal ; also, on 

 behalf of Mr. F. W. Frohawk, two remarkable varieties of Arrtin caja reared 

 this season from larvae from the Scilly Islands. 



The following papers were read : — " CTynandromorphous Lepidoptera," by 

 E. A. Cockayne, M.A., M.D., F.E.S. "The Rein-sheath in Plebeiid Blues. A 

 correction of and addition to Paper VI," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. 

 "Resting Attitudes in Lepidoptera. An example of Recapitulation in Habit," 

 by the same. " The Evolution of the Habits of the Larva of Lycaena arion," 

 by the same. " Micropteryx entitled to Ordinal Rank. Order Zeugloptera," by 

 the same. Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



* This specimen i.s not unique. A similar one is figured in BaiTctt's " Leinduptura," on Plate 

 LXXI, fig. Ic ; and we think we have seen and heard of others. — G.T.P. 



