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and included a series of the var./itsca of H. aurantiaria, which so fax* has only been 

 recorded from South- West Yorkshire ; and a short series of a new form of the 

 same species in which all the winys were iiniformly pale yellow. Of this form 

 quite a representative nuiiiher liad been secured in the Skelmantliorpe district. 

 Messrs. A. Whitaker and H. Dyson also had fine exhibits of these two species. 

 Abraxas grossulariata also made a good show, Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibiting a 

 selection of the varieties he had bred from wild Hiiddersfield larva^ including 

 nigra, and exceptionally fine forms of nigrosparsata. Mr. Barraclough, vars. 

 varleyata, nigrosparsata, lacticolor, hazeleighensis, a,r\.d ftdvapicat a from the Brad- 

 ford district. Mr J. W. Boult, var. nigrosparsata from Hull. Mr. J. W. Carter 

 showed a series of Chclonia plantaginis from Fountain Fell, near Malham, 

 including a form in which the usual red of the abdomen was replaced by yellow, 

 of which he liad two specimens ; also a peculiar Pieris brassicfn from Bradford, 

 having the underside thickly irrorated with black scales. Mr. Barraclough, a 

 black Polia rhi from Bradford, and Mr. Dyson, varieties of the same species from 

 Skelmanthorpe. Mr. W. Hewett recorded the occurrence of Colias edusa at York, 

 and exhibited fine varieties of Smerinthus tiliae. Dr. Corbett, Dr. W. J. Ford- 

 ham, and Mr. E. G. Bayford showed the Coleoptera, aiad Mr. W. D. Roebuck 

 the Hymenoptera and Diptera alluded to in the Reports. Two papers were 

 read : " On some Characteristics of Spiders," by Mr. W. Falconer ; and " Some 

 Problems for Coleopterists," by Dr. H. H. Corbett, on both of which a good deal 

 of discussion ensued. — G. T. Poeritt. 



The South London Entomoloiucal and Natural History Society. 

 Annual Pocket-Box Exhibition, Thursday, Nov. 2Hth, 1912. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, 

 F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. N. Freeman, of Sanderstead, was elected a member. 



Mr. A. Tonge exhibited species taken and bred })y him during tlie season, 

 including Heliothis marginata, Agrotis cinerea, Oncoccra ahenella, Notodo7ita 

 phoehe (dictsea), etc,, from Reigate; Polia chi from Winslow, Bucks. ; Leucania 

 alhipuncta, Noctua stigmatica, Bryophila muralis var. impar, from Deal, etc. 

 Mr. B. H. Smith, thirty specimens of Phryxus livornica, taken at light in Corn- 

 wall, in May. Mr. R. Adkin, long and varied series of Anthrocera lonicerse, 

 A. trifolii, and A filipendulx, all three species varying from normal deep red, 

 through pale rod, orange to yellow by small gradations. Mr. A. Sich, the two 

 very rare Coleophorids obtained by him this year, Coleophora trigeminella and 

 C. agrammelia, the latter from E. Hoathly, Sussex, Mr. E. P. Sharp, an exten- 

 sive series of the Sussex forms of Dianthcecia carpophaga, and dark and red 

 forms of Nonagria edelsteni. Capt. Cardew, an almost obsolete underside of 

 Celastrina argiolus near ab. argyphontes, from Oxshott. Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor, 

 a veiy long series of Coenonympha typhon, from Witherslack, Cumberland, and 

 Scotland ; he also showed Agriades coridon ab. semisyngrapha, ab. inieqiialis, 

 ab. aurantia and ab. tithonus, P. rapes from Aberdeen, with females varying 

 from pale yellow to buff ; underside aberrations of Aphantopus hyperanthus, 

 Coinonympha pamphilus, and Aricia medon and a Triphxna pronuha, -with pale 

 lemon yellow hind wings. Rev. J. E. Tarbat, a series of Crambus fascclincllus 



