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upon the Scotch form of E. xthiops, though without naming it. A long and 

 important discussion took place on the subject of varietal, and especially 

 aberrational, names. Prof. Poulton, a series of specimens bearing upon the view 

 that changes of coloui- and pattern in allied forms are due to climate, and 

 especially to moistiu-e, which tended to show that the operation of climatic 

 influence is extremely improbable. Prof. Poulton also, a set of the mimetic 

 Pseudacrseas and their models collected by Mr. C. A. Wiggins in the neighbour- 

 hood of Entebbe, which contrasted remarkably with a set of 17 Pseudacraeas 

 collected by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter on Damba Island, on the Equator, in the 

 Victoria Nyanza, about 20 miles S.E. of Entebbe ; also the cocoon of Norasuma 

 kolga, Druce, together with the moth which had emerged from it. The compact 

 cocoon itself was reddish, with an outer imperfect covering of yellow silk, which 

 much resembled the cocoons of Braconid parasites. Prof .Poulton said that he had 

 been shown by Mr. J. H. Durrant the spherical bodies scattered over the cocoon 

 of the Tineid moth Marmara salictella, Clemens, and had no doubt that they 

 were secreted by the larva and passed by the anus as in Deilcmcra. Also material 

 to illustrate several letters on subjects of entomological interest from 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn from West Africa. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a drawer full of 

 Syntoviidm that had been collected by himself in S. Brazil in the early part of 

 1910. 



The following papers were read : — " On the Nictitans Group of the genus 

 Hydroecia, Gn.," )iy the Eev. C. E. N. Burrows. " On the Dates of the Publications 

 of the Entomological Society," by the Eev. G. Wheeler, M.A., P.Z.S. 



Mr. Wheeler mentioned the great amount of gratuitous help which had been 

 o-iven to him in the matter of these dates by Messrs. Taylor & Francis, 

 Mr. C. F. Eoworth, Messrs. West, Newman & Co., and above all by 

 Messrs. Longmans. Green & Co., who had given him the dates on which they 

 had received every part of every volume from 1884 to 1911. He proposed a vote 

 of thanks to each of these firms, which was seconded by Mr. J. H. Durrant, and 

 carried unanimotisly. 



The President said he had received a letter from Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor, 

 stating that CoUey Hill, Eeigate, a famous entomological and botanical locality, 

 wovild come into the hands of the specidative builder in February next unless it 

 were previously pvirchased by the " National Trust," in order to preserve it, and 

 asking for subscriptions from one shilling upwards. He added that the 

 Treasurer would willingly receive any subscriptions that the Fellows present 

 liked to give, and would hand them over to the proper quarter. 



The President fiu-ther reminded the Society of the Second International 

 Congress which is to take place at Oxford this year from August 5th to 10th. 

 He hoped that the Society woiUd be strongly represented.— G. Wheelee, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



