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of fine size mostly, but only showing trivial variation in size and position of 

 the discoidal spots, in amount of blue in the hind wings, in the breadth and 

 depth of colom- of the transverse bands, &c. Mr. Hugh Main, a beetle, Caryo- 

 horus midcorum, bred by him from the Coquilla niit previously exhibited with 

 the larva inside by Mr. Joy. Mr. J. P. Barrett, the larvae of Cehrio gigas (?), a 

 Coleopteron occurring somewhat freely in his son's garden in Messina, doing 

 injury to his potatoes ; a short series of Lycxna avion from Cornwall, Mgeria 

 muscseformis and Dianthcecia luteago var. ficUini from the same coimty, and a 

 huge earthen cocoon of Manduca atropos. Mr. Tonge, a fragment of slate from 

 Cornwall containing a fossil, in appearance very much resembling an Orthopteron 

 Mr. Curwen, a very varied series of Brenthis pales from Switzerland. Mr. 

 Blenkarn, the rare Coleopteron, Henoticus serratus, taken in the offices of 

 Messrs. Moet & Chandon, Northvimberland Avenue, and a series of bred 

 Forthesia chrysorrhoea from Sandown, including two with bright golden, instead 

 of the usual rich brown, tufts. Mr. Lucas, a living female of the rare 

 Orthopteron, Metrioptera roeselii. Mr. Turner, for Eev. C. E. N. Burrows, a 

 beautiful series of Celastrina argiolus bred from larvse taken on Portugal laurel, 

 notable for their large size and brilliant coloration, approaching the American 

 form pseudargiolus. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, October 2nd, 1912. — 

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



Miss Lily Huie, Hollywood, Colinton Eoad, Edinburgh, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The death was announced of the Hon. Fellow, Prof. L. Ganglbauer, of 

 Vienna, and also of Messrs. E. Shelford, M.A., F.Z.S., E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., and 

 G. H. Grosvenor, M.A. 



Dr. Nicholson showed three specimens of Adalia obliterata, L., ab, sub- 

 lineata, Weise, an aberration not as yet recorded from Britain; these were 

 taken on Box Hill. Mr. G. T. Porritt, various forms of the variety nigro- 

 s2Mrsata, together with the type specimen of var. nigra of Abraxas grossulariata.* 

 Commander J. J. Walker, series of the following rare species of British 

 CoUoptcra, recently taken in the Oxford district : Lathrobium pallidum, Nordm,, 

 Apion annulipes, Wenck., £ and ¥ , -And Psylliodes luteola, Miill. ; also a specimen 

 of the so-called " Insect-catching grass " {Cenchrus australis) from Cairns, 

 N. Queensland, with several Coleoptera, belonging to various genera, adhering 

 to the spinous awns. Mr. E. M. Prideaux a beautifvil aberration of Pyrameis 

 cardui, closely resembling one figured by Newman. Mr. C. J. Gahan a small 

 series of I'hromnia supcrba, Melichar, a dimorphic species of Homoptera of the sub- 

 family Flatinie, taken by Dr. A. C. Parsons, in Northern Nigeria; he said that 

 Dr. Parsons' observations on this species were a strong confu-mation of the 

 account given by Prof. J. W. Gregory of a nearly related East African species 

 in his book " The Great Eift Valley." He passed round a copy of the plate on 

 which that species had been represented, showing the green insects at the top 



All bred from Huddersfleld wild larvse this year. 



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