70 [March, 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, Deeemher 6th, 1911. — The 

 Eev. F. D. MoRiCE, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Tlie following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : Dr. Beckwith 

 Whitehonse, 52, Newhall Street, Birmingham ; Messrs. F. W. Edwards, 

 Kingswear, Cornwall Road, Harrow ; Douglas Pearson, Chilwell House, Chilwell, 

 Notts; B. H. Smith, B.A., Edgehill, Warlingham, Surrey ; C. F. M. Swynnerton, 

 Mt. Chirinda, Melsetter, S. Rhodesia. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited an insect recently brought to the British Musemn, 

 and recognized by him as belonging to Priso;pus, a i-emarkable and specially 

 interesting genus of Phasmidae ; he proposed to name it Prisopus fisheri in 

 honour of its discoverer. Mr. South, a drawer of Leucanid moths captured and 

 reared by the Rev. W. P. Waller in the Woodbridge district of Suffolk. The 

 female parent of the first series was apparently referable to L. pallens, but of 

 her offspring twenty-three specimens were of the typical favicolor form, and the 

 other seven were examples of the yellow form oifavicolor — ab. lutea, Tutt. The 

 next series of twenty-four specimens showed the progeny of a female favicolor, 

 the majority of which were not separable from jiallens, nine were typical 

 favicolor, and the others intergrades, but favoured pallens more than favicolor. 

 Mr. Sou.th said he understood tha,t favicolor cannot be sepai'ated from pallens by 

 any difference in the genitalia, and was informed that cross-piirings of pallens 

 a,nd favicolor are not uncommon in the habitat of the latter. He was, therefore, 

 inclined to suppose that favicolor is a salt-marsh development of pallens. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe, a specimen of Eryx fairmairei, Reiche, a species of Coleoptera 

 new to Britain, one of several taken by him in Sherwood Forest on July 11, 1908. 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon showed a collection of Rhopaloccra made by him in Jemtland 

 and Swedish Lapland in Jime and July, 1911. The species included were.- 

 Hesperia centaurese, H. andromedse, Chrysophanus (Loweia) arnphidamas, var. 

 ohscura, C (Rumicia) phlseas, var. hypophlseas, Vacciniina optilete, Polyommatus 

 icarus, Plebeius argyrognomon, var. segidion, Pieris napi, var. hryonise, Colias 

 nastes, var. werdandi, Aglais urticae, and ab. polaris, Brenthis freya, B. frigga, 

 B, aphirape, var. ossianus, B. thore, var, borealis, B. euphrosyne, (Eneis noma, 

 0. jutta, 0. bore, Erebia lappona, E. emhla, E. ligea var. adyte. He also exhibited 

 the following Heterocera taken during the same expedition : Anthrocera exulans, 

 var. vanadis, Anarta melaleuca, A. cordigera, A. melanopa, Plusia hochenwarthi, 

 and others. Mr. Henry J. Turner, a large nvunber of specimens of Luperina 

 nickerlii, of which the British form or race has been hitherto known as Luperina 

 gueneei, together with series of other races from the Continent. He called 

 attention to the interesting specimens of L. testacea from various continental 

 localities and from Algeria, and of L. dumerilii from Rennes and Algeria, which 

 he had received from M. Oberthiir. Mr. Turner also, a long series of Erebia 

 lethiops from many continental localities and also from Aviemore, Scotland. 

 The Scotch (Galashiels) race of this species was lately named var. Caledonia by 

 Mr. Roger Verity. Mr. Turner at the same time called attention to the growing 

 tendency to name aberrations, a course which often resulted in multiple names 

 being bestowed on some one form. Dr. Chapman remarked that local races 

 required special names if any forms did so, and that he had already remarked 



