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11. Williams, Sydney Webb, Hawes, T. W. ITall, J. E. Wellman, Professor Stewart, 

 Messrs. R. Adkin, J. Capper, C. A. Briggs, C. Fenn, A. H. Jones, J. A. Clark, J. 

 W. Tutt, &c. A room was set apart for exhibition of living mollusca, collected in 

 the neighbourhood of London, and of microscopical objects. Lectures were de- 

 livered each evening by Mr. F. Enock and Mr. G. Day. 



April 23rd, 1891.— The President in tlie Chair. 



Mr. E. Sabel, of Clapham, was elected a Member. 



Mr. E. South exhibited a series of rolyommatus Phlceas, L., among which were 

 cxanaples of the vars. Schmidtii, Gerh., and Eleits, Fab., and some other interesting 

 aberrations, together with representations of the species from Europe, Asia, and 

 Africa. Mr. E. Adkin, Emmelesia albulata, Schiff., bred from pupse received from 

 Siietland in 1888, including var. griseata, Stgr., and var. thules,'We\r ; he also ex- 

 liibited pupte of Cedestis GysselineUa, Dup., in drawn-together fir needles, and larvae of 

 Lithocolletis iiacci7iieUa, Scott, both from Rimnoch. Mr. Tugwell, Larentia olivata, 

 Bork., from Portland. Mr. Billups, the three cabinet drawers of life histories shown 

 by him at the Annual Exhibition ; also pupa and imago of Eulophus daniicornis^ 

 Kirby, bred from Demas coryli, L., by Mr. Symes, Cetoriia atirata, L., showing the 

 position of the species in the cocoon after its chani;e from the larval stage, and, on 

 behalf of Mr. Mansbridge, galls on Jlieracium and birch, collected near Leeds. 



May \Uh, 1891.— The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. H. Eowland-Brown, B.A., F.E.S., of Harrow Weald, G. Bird, of Honor 

 Oak, F. E. Filer, of Southwark, G. W. Euffle, of Camberwell, A. E. Uewey, of 

 Walham Green, and A. C. Forrester, of Clapham, were elected Members. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. E. Eobson, of Hartlepool, 

 varieties of the under-side of Lycczna Icarus, Rott., and L. Astrarche, Bgstr., 

 and Vanessa Atalanta, L., varieties of V. uriicce, L., Ccenonympha Pamphi- 

 lus, var. albescens, &c. Mr. Tugwell also showed, on behalf of Mr. Collins, of 

 Warrington, a dark specimen of Aplecia nebulosa, Hufn., an exti'cmely dark form 

 of Acronycta rumicis, var. salicis, Curt., and a variety of Leucania lithargyria, Esp. 

 Mr. Jager, living larvae of CalUmorpha Ilera, L., reared from ova obtained from a 

 specimen captured in South Devon in 1890. Mr. R. Adkin, Noctua f estiva, Hb., 

 from Forres, Isle of Unst, North Wales, and Kent. Mr. Tugwell, bred forms of 

 Lobophora vlretata, Hb. The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Merrificld, and 

 extracts from his papers on the effects of temperature on the colouring of certain 

 species of Lepidoptera, the consideration of which stood over until a subsequent 

 Meeting. Mr. Tutt contributed a paper, " Reproduction and Parthenogenesis." — 

 n. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: Ilay 6th, 1891. — Frederick 

 DuCane Godman, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Eobert A. Dallas Beeching. of 24, St. James's Eoad, Tunbridge Wells, 

 Kent ; Mr. H. Shortridge Clarke, of Douglas, Isle of Man ; Monsieur Leon Fair- 

 maire, of 21, Eue du Dragon, Paris ; Mr. Wm. Eeid, of Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire ; 

 and Mr. Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., of Montevideo, Weymouth; were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



