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New Guinea in the "Chevei't." At first on the stafP of the Australian Mnsetim, 

 Mr. Masters became in 1S74 the cixrator of the extensive collections which 

 developed into the fine " Macleay Mnsenm," attached to the University of 

 Sydney, and of which he retained the charge vmtil liis death. Tn intimate and 

 first-hand knowledge of the Aiistralian insect fauna, Mr. Masters was altogether 

 without a rival, and it is greatly to bo regretted that his many friends were 

 unable to persuade him to give his experiences as a field naturalist to the 

 world. We owe to him, however, an exceedingly useful " Catalogiie of the 

 Described Coleoptera of Australia," with a sxipplement of the species then 

 known from New Guinea, embodied in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 

 of New Soutli Wales for 1886. He became one of the Original Fellows of this 

 Society more than 50 years ago, and was also a member of the short-lived but 

 active Entomological Society of New South Wales throughout its duration. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society .- 

 Thursday, July Uth, 1912.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited galls from the poplar-tree made by two species of 

 Aphides, Pemphig^is hwsarms and P. spirothecse, the former of a pyriform shaj)e 

 on the petiole, and the latter of a spiral shape in the same situation. 

 Miss Fountaine, a fine series of examples, mostly bred by herself, of species of 

 Callidryas from the W. Indies and S. Africa, with the large species of Gonepteryx 

 from America. Mr. H. Main, living larvae of Pyrameis cardui from Eastbourne, 

 and a fine series of Pieris napi and v. bryonix, the results of recent experiments. 

 Mr. Piatt Barrett, a bred specimen of Charaxes jasuis from Sicily, and made 

 remarks on the spring and early sununer of the present year in that island. 

 Mr. Step, photogTaphs of the leaves of the maple and sycamore with the cases 

 of the sawfly larva, Pliyllotoma aceris, and remarked on the occurrence of the 

 insect at Ashtead and Oxshott. Several other members had also met with the 

 species. Mr. Adkin, the cocoon of Platysamia cecropia previously shown by 

 Mr. Dods, and pointed out that the inner envelojDe of the cocoon was reversed, 

 hence the imago had to emerge from the wrong end of the outer envelope. He 

 also showed several bred series of Coremia ferrugata, and read notes on the 

 variation of this species. Mr. H. Moore, a variety of Papilio phorcas from 

 Africa, in which the veins were margined with white in the green areas of both 

 wings. Mr. Sich, the pupa cases of Libythea celtis showing that the pupa lies 

 in a horizontal position under a leaf without a girdle for support, and he also 

 showt^d white eggshells of Cerura vinula found in Sussex. Mr. Edwards, two 

 large Eastern Satyridse, Neorina hilda and N. rrishna. — H. J. Turner, Hon. 

 Secretary. 



