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Lampides bseticus of unusually large size ; the larvae fed upon green peas. He 

 also showed drawings of protective resting positions of various species of 

 Lepidoptera. Mr. E. South, five generations of Acidalia mrgfuZaria, bred from ova 

 laid by a ? captured at Bishop Avickland, August 7th, 1910. — Ht. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



ENTOMOLoaicAL SociKTT OF LoNDON : Wednesday, February oth, 1913. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated as Vice-Presidents for 

 the ensuing session, the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., and Messrs. J. E. Collin and 

 J. H. Durrant. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a number of insects, principally Syntomid moths, 

 from British Honduras. Mr. A. J. Richards, several very scarce Coleoptera, 

 chiefly from Hindliead. Mr. Donisthorpe, g <? and $ ? of Formica fusca, var. 

 picea, Nyl., from the New Forest, and a ^ from Belgium, and pointed out that 

 it was standing in the British lists as gagates, Latr., which has not occiirred in 

 Britain. Mr. W. A. Lamborn, cocoons of Deilemera antinorii, Oberth., together 

 with the moths that emerged from them. The cocoons themselves and the 

 arrangement of tlie spheres upon them showed the I'esemblance to the cocoons 

 of a Braconid parasite far more clearly than the more crowded examples that 

 he had sent before. Also two cocoons of the Lymantriid moth, Euproctis 

 lanaria, Holl. He had observed that, in the construction of the cocoon, the 

 piipa itself was hidden in the lower part, close to the leaf upon which the 

 structure was built, and that the larva spun iipon this foundation a spherical, 

 thin-walled structure which remained perfectly empty Mr. J. A. de Gaye, 

 5 <? (J s and 8 $ ? s of Gonometa subfascia, Walkei", from Lagos, S. Nigeria ; 

 the males were captured while they were trying to get into the breeding cage 

 in which were two newly-hatched females. Prof. Poiilton observed that 

 Dr. Laml)orn's previous experiences had made it almost certain that, in spite 

 of the great diiference in size and appearance, these insects were the ^ and ? 

 of the same species ; Mr. de Gaye's experience had now placed the matter 

 beyond doubt. Prof. Poulton exhibited a leighi female of Papilio dardanus. 

 Brown, together with one trophonius — two members of a family bred by 

 Mr. G. F. Leigh from a female parent of the latter form ; also two further 

 sets of synepigonic Pseudacrxas of the eurytus, L., group, bred by Dr. G. D. H 

 Carpenter, on Bugalla I., L. Victoria Nyanza. Mr. B. Harold Smith, thirty- 

 five specimens of Phryxus livornica, taken at light in South Cornwall, diu'ing 

 the last half of May, 1912. Mr. A. Bacot, a specimen of A. virgiUaria, having 

 the right wings melauic, the left wings of normal grey coloration. Mr. L. B. 

 Prout said that the specimen was no doubt a gynandromorph. Mr. N. D. Riley, 

 on behalf of M. Andre Avinoff, a collection of Rhopalocera, made on a journey 

 in the Western Himalayas. M. Avinoff, who was present as a visitor, gave an 

 accovmt of his expedition. The following paper was read .- " Tricho gramma, 

 Westw., probably synonymous with Pentarthron, Riley (Hymenoptera)," by 

 R. C. L. Perkins, M A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



