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Mr. Horace Knight's drawings (notably the lovely little Calojneris e^dimene on 

 Plate V, and the gorgeous Papilio maackii on Plate I) being among the very 

 best we have ever seen. The " three colour " process adopted in the Frontispiece, 

 however, fails to do full justice to the beautifiil picture by that artist (which 

 is well known to the writer of this notice) of the Soixth African Eronia cleo- 

 dora in its natural surroiindinars. 



The South London Entomolouical and Natural History Societt : 

 Thursday, March 14th, I'Jli;. — Mr. A. E. Tonqe, President, in the Chair. 



William Bateson, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., F.E.S., and Prof. E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, 

 M.A., F.E.S., were elected Honorary Members. 



Mr. Andrews exhibited three species of Syrphidse parasitic in their larval 

 stage upon Lepidoptera, viz., Catabomba pyrastri, Xanthandrus comtus, and 

 Melanostoma mellinum. Mr. Adkin, an extreme melanic specimen of Noctua 

 xanthographa, taken in his garden at Lewisham in 1911. Mr. Newman, living 

 full grown larvEe of Melitxa aurinia fed up in a temperatiu'e of 60°-70°, and a 

 pair of Saturnia carpini with all the usual reddish markings of a clear yellow. 

 It was bred from a yellow (J and a red ? . Mr. Blenkarn, the Coleopteron 

 Haliplus nomax, from Coatbridge, i-ecently described as new to science. Mr. B. H. 

 Smith, a living larva of Colias edusa, from ova laid in October last ; one larva 

 had already pupated. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Thursday, March 28th, 1912. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. C. F. Lloyd, of Ashford Common, Middlesex, was elected a Member. 



Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited ova of Amphidasys strataria laid by a ? with 

 which he had assembled five S s. Mr. West, the specimen of Psylla albipes, 

 found by him at Box Hill in October last, and new to the British list of Hemiptera. 

 Mr. Ne\vinan, living examples of Melitsea aurinia bred at a temperature of 60° — 70^, 

 and fviU-fed larva? of Dryas paphia fed under similar conditions. He called 

 attention to the extreme scarcity of larvae of Arctia caja and of Abraxas 

 grossulariata. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, specimens of Leptosia sinapis and L. 

 duponcheli with the summer broods of the same, v. diniensis and v. sestiva 

 respectively, and pointed out that the British smumer form of the former species 

 was an intermediate form. Mr. E. Adkin, a specimen of Uadena porphyrea 

 (satura), and read a series of historical and critical notes on the species. 

 Mr. Andrews, the Dipteron, Syrphus arcticus, taken at Chattenden on March 

 12th. Mr. Ashdown, a specimen of Mysia oblonyo-guttata, ab. nigro-guttata, 

 from Oxshott in May, 1911, and recently described as new. Mr. Sich, for 

 Mr. G. B. Eoutledge, a melanic example of Depressaria applana from Carlisle. 

 Ml'. A. E. Tonge, a living specimen of Callophrys avishredab ovo. Mr. Edwards, 

 examples of the closely allied species of Ornithoptera, lydius and croesus. 

 Mr. H. Main, the larva of the alder-fly, Sialis lutaria. — H. J. Turner, Hon, Sec. 



