48 [February, 191 '2. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, December Uth, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Special Meetino-. — It was agreed unanimously, at an unusually large Meeting, 

 to increase the annual subscription to ten shillings and the life composition to 

 six guineas. 



Ordinary Meeting.— Mr. E. G. Todd, of Barnett; Mr. G E. H. Peskett, of 

 Ilford; Mr. A. Quarrington, of Norwood; and Mr. K. A. Stowell, B.A., of 

 Kingston, were elected Members. 



There was a special exhibition of Rumicia plilseas and its allies. Mr. Tonga, 

 series from the S.E. counties and bred continental specimens ; Mr. Newman, on 

 behalf of Mr. Quarrington, ab. schmidtii and striated forms ; the Eev. G. Wheeler, 

 series from England, S. Prance, and S. Switzerland, including suffused examples, 

 ab. cseruleopunctata, ab. hipunctata, ab. unipunctata, &c. ; Mr. K. Adkin, repre- 

 sentative series from Eastbourne taken this year, and analysed the variation 

 occurring there ; Mr. A. E. Gibbs, series from England, N. E. France, E. Pyrenees, 

 Corsica, Algeria, Turkistan, and Japan, together with many closely allied species 

 from the Palrearctic and Nearctic Regions ; Mr. Turner, series, including his ab. 

 alba, from Brasted ; Mr. E. South, a selection illustrating the ordinary variation, 

 including ab. schmidtii, and pointed out that the American representative 

 of our species, R. hypophlxas had almost parallel variation ; Mr. Cowham, ab. 

 schmidtii from Oxshott ; Mr. Frohawk, a long bred series of C. dispar v. rutilus 

 from Continental ova ; Mr. C. P. Pickett, long and varied series of four broods 

 in 1911, and many aberrations taken duiing the past ten years ; Mr. Edwards, 

 closely allied Central and E. Asian forms ; Mr. Kaye, bred specimens. In the 

 subsequent remarks it was noted that the species had appeared in great 

 abtmdance even in gardens and streets, that there were extremely few striking 

 aberrations, tliat the later broods were generally darker, that the larva 

 hibernated in any instar, and that the species was by no means common in 

 Switzerland. Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a drawer of the Society's cabinet, 

 in which he had arranged the British Hymenoptera recently presented to the 

 Society. Mr. Ashdown, a collection of Lcpidoptera, taken by him in Switzerland 

 and near Chamonix in Jime and July last. Mr. Newman, a number of well- 

 marked abei-rations of Lepidopterairovatha collection of Mr. Hills, of Folkestone. 

 Mr. Quarrington, a fine blue 9 of Polyommatus icarus. Mr. Buckstone, a series 

 of variations of Ematurga atomaria. Mr. South, a long series of three generations 

 of Acidalia virgularia, reared in 1911 from a ? taken at Bishop Auckland in 

 1910. Mr. Joy, two autumn bred specimens of Apatura iris, the rest of the brood 

 going over as larvse as ustial. Mr. Blenkarn, light and dark examples of Lithosia 

 deplana, and a specimen of the cockroach Peripianeta aiistralasim, taken from a 

 case of oranges from Jamaica. Mr. Edwards, th^^ remarkably sexually dimorphic 

 species Euripus halitherses, of which the ? mimics a Euploea. Mr. Pickett, a 

 very richly marked aberration of Hipparchia semele. Mr. Step, a further portion 

 of the " Tugwell " Herbarium, which he had been renovating for the Society, 

 and to contain which Mr. E. Adkin had most kindly given a handsome cabinet. 

 — Henry J, Titrner, Hon. Secretary. 



