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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, Decemher 12th, 1912.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a collection of over 100 species of attractive 

 Coleoptera obtained by him in Switzerland in June and Jnly, 1911 and 1912, 

 including Geramhyx cerdo, C. scopolii, Saperda scalaris, Trichius fasciatus, etc. 

 Mr. Tonge, very dark Noctua xanthographa from Deal at sugar, and a bred series 

 of Cirrhia citrago from Dorking. Mr. South, for Rev. W. Claxton, a series of 

 Tortrlv pronubana bred from Bournemoutli, among which was a specimen 

 identical with the amhustana of Hiibner, the only one of the form reared ; 

 and a form of Olethreiites ochroleucana from near Romford with the apical third 

 of fore-wing greyish, enclosing dusky cloud-like markings almost parallel with 

 the termen. Mr. Kaye, three Syntomid moths, Ornjnia calcarata from Caracas, 

 mimicking a wasp ; 0. tarsalis from British Guiana, mimicking a fossorial wasp ; 

 and Trichura cerberus g vvith long anal projection, mimicking a ? Ichneumon 

 with long ovipositor ; the resemblances were most pronounced. Mr. Grosvenor, 

 series of ^lelitsea aurinia from more than a dozen British localities to show the 

 geographical variation. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a series of undersides of .-Irgynnis 

 adippe to show tlie variation obtainable on the continent, including ab. cleodoxa, 

 var. chlorodippe, var. clcodippe (the last two Spanish), ab. bajuvarica, ab. orna- 

 tissima, var. norwegic.a, etc. Mr. Newman, very varied forms of Agrotis cursoria 

 from Shetland. Mr. Main, larva? of Clythra quadripunctata in their cases of 

 excrement, taken by Mr. Donistliorpe from a nest of the ant Formica rufa. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Thursday, January 9th, 1913. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. F. H. Stallman, of Diilwich, was elected a Member. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited three specimens of Papilio vnachaon reared from 

 Norfolk larvae, having the whole of the lunules on the oiiter margin of the hind 

 wings more or less strongly orange. Mr. Newman, a living ? Selenia bilunaria 

 bred out-of-doors on January 9th. ; the first of the brood emerged on Dec. 20th. 

 Mr. Rayward, the working of Mgeria andrenseformns in Vibiirniwi, and a similar 

 working in elder, wliich had all the characteristics of that of ^. andrenm- 

 forynis. Mr. Tonge, several species of butterflies from Redlands, California. 

 Mr. Gahan read a paper on " Mimicry in Coleoptera," and illustrated it with a 

 large number of particulai-ly mimetic species. 



Thursday, January 2'Srd, 1913. — Annual Meeting. The President in 

 the Cliair. 



Tlie Reports of the Council and Officers for the past year were read and 

 adopted, and the President read the Annual Address, in which after discussing 

 the affairs of the Society and reviewing the Entomological happenings for the 

 year, he summarised his own work in the study of the ova and early stages of 

 the Lepidoptera. The following is a list of the Officers and Council elected to 

 serve for the ensuing year: President: A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents: 

 W. J. Kaye, F.E.S and B. H. Smith, B.A., F E.S. ; Treasurer : T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. ; Librarian : A. W. Dods ; Curator .- W. West ; Hon. Secretaries : Stanley 



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