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west coast. Prof. Poiilton also exhibited thirty-seven examples of C phlseas, 

 captured on the same bank at Cerne Abbas, Dorset, in the hot August of 1911 

 and in the cold August of 1912, by Dr. E. C. L. Perkins. Eight out of the 

 fourteen males captured in 1911 were much darker than any of the eight males 

 captured in 1912. The copper tint of the eight 1912 females was more brilliantly 

 lustrous than in the seven 1911 females. Mr. T. H. Ii. Grosvenor, a series of 

 Polyommatus icarus females, principally from various localities on the Nox'th 

 Downs, arranged according to the year and emergence to which they belonged. 

 The Eev. G. Wheeler, on behalf of Mr. E. M. Prideaux, some aberrational forms 

 of Bumicia phlseas, and three 9 " Blues," consisting of one very dark specimen 

 of Agriades corydon and two of A. thetis, one being of the ab. u,rania, Gerh., and 

 the other having the forewings dark and the hindwings symmetrically of a 

 pale fawn colour ; also the specimens of Agriades thetis ab. urania, Gerh., to 

 which he had referred at a former meeting. All were taken between Gomshall 

 and Dorking, and were first-brood specimens of this year. Also a series of blvie 

 9 9 , most of them entirely blue, taken this spring at Notgrove in the Cotswolds, 

 and for comparison the bluest 9 he had taken thei-e previously, in which the 

 blue scaling was less than the least blue of this spring's captures. Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey, specimens of Teracolus ephyia, Klug, and some allied forms, together 

 with drawings of their respective scent-scales. The following papers were read : 

 " On some new and little-known Bornean Lycsenidae, with a revision of the 

 Thecline genus Thamala, Moore." By J. C. Morilton, F.L.S., Curator of the 

 Sarawak Museum. " Descriptions of Sovith American Micro-Lepidoptera." By 

 E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. " Synoptic Table of the British species of Aleuonota 

 and Atheta,T\i." By Malcolm Cameron, M.B., E.N. "Comparative Notes on 

 Chilades galba, Lea, and C. phiala, Gr.-Gr." By G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. " Notes on the Specific Distinction of certain species in the orbitulus 

 and 2>heretiades section of the Genus Pleheius." By G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Mr. Bethune-Baker exhibited the species referred to in the latter paper, 

 and mentioned the conclusions to which he had come as to their specific value 

 or otherwise. 



Wednesday, January 15th, 1913. — Annual Meeting. The President in 

 the Chair. 



Mr. J. E. Collin, one of the Auditors, read the Treasurer's Balance Sheet 

 for 1912, showing a balance of ^816 18s. 9d. On the proposal of the Eev. F. E. 

 Lowe, seconded by Mr. H. Main, it was unanimously adopted. 



The Eev. George Wheeler, one of the Secretaries, then read the Eeport of 

 the Council. Mr. A. Bacot proposed that the Council's Eeport be adopted. 

 This was seconded by Dr. T. A. Chapman, and carried unanimously. 



The President then said that he would put the Council's nominees for 

 Officers and Council for the ensuing session to the meeting, and asked for a 

 show of hands. They were then declared elected unanimously. 



The President, the Eev. F. D. Morice, then delivered an Address, at the 

 close of which Mr. C. J. Gahan proposed a vote of thanks to him for his 



