310 [November, 



The SoFTn London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 August 21th, 1891.— W. H. Tugwell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Tucrwcll exhibited a series of BryophiJa peria, Fb., from Kent, showinf; 

 great variation. Mr. Tugwell also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. E. Robson, of 

 ITartlepool, LyccBna Astrarche,'Qgsiv., collected at Durham, and showing the species 

 in all its forms, vars. Salmacis, St., and Artaxerxes, Fab., with intermediate forms. 

 Mr. S. Edwards, the genus Charaxes, and read notes on the distribution of the 

 species. Mr. Carpenter, varieties of under-sides of Tliecla rtihi, L. ; Etigonia 

 qaercinaria, Tlufn., bred from ova, and unusually dark. Mr. Frohawk, P/eris nnj>i, 

 L., from different localities, and three females showing graduation of an additional 

 spot between the third and fourth nervules, one male entirely white ; pale and dusky 

 forms of the female ; and a banded form of Pararge Megc2ra, L., taken at Chatten- 

 dcn, 1861. Mr. Mera, living larvne of Acronyda tridens, Schifp. Mr. West 

 (Streatliam), the Lewes form of GnopJws ohscuraria, Hb. Mr. Turner, bred series 

 of Pelurgia comUata, L., and of Hgpsipetea sordidata, Fb. ; also a living larva of 

 Stauropus fagl, L. Mr. C. Fenn, Odontia dentalis, Schiff., bred from Echium, 

 Hyria muricata, Hufn., Anerastia lotella, Hb., Cramhus uliginosellns, Zell., C. con- 

 taminellus, lib., and Sericoris conchana, Hb., from Deal and neighbourhood. Mr. 

 H. A. Sauze, a case of Coleoptera, containing twenty-six species. Mr. West 

 (Streatham), an example of Nania typica, with two tibiae and tarsi on left front 

 femur. Mr. Billups, British Dipiera, including Xemorcea strenua, Meig., from 

 Oxshott ; Erixtalis sepulchral is, L., a male taken at Plunistead ; also a female of 

 the rare Hypoderma bovis, Deg. ; Phytomyza aqnilegice, Hardy, reared with its para- 

 site, Bhizarcha areolaris, Nees, from leaves of the columbine growing in his garden 

 at Peckham. Mr. Billups also exhibited Polysjihincta varipes, Gr., and a cocoon of 

 Attaciis Cecropia from New York State, received from Mr. Turner, and from which 

 he had bred forty-eight specimens of a species of Cry plus, closely allied to the 

 British Cryptus digitatus. 



September \Oth, 1891. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. W. F. Robinson, of Notting Hill, was elected a Member. 



Mr. S. Gr. C. Russell exhibited a large number of Argynnis Selene, Schiff., from 

 North Hants localities. Mr. Carpenter, a fine series of PericalUa syringaria, L., 

 bred from ova received from Essex, and of Di.inthaecia alhimacula, Bork.,bred, from 

 Kent. Mr. Frohawk, a series of PoJyommatus Pklceas, L., and pointed out the 

 advantage of rearing this species from ova, as those bred were much larger than 

 captured specimens. Mr. Joy, a melanic specimen of Boarmia repandata, L., taken 

 near Grange. Mr. R. Adkin showed a series of Psodos coracina, Esp., bred this 

 spring, from Rannoch. Mr. C. Fenn, about fifty caught specimens of Agrotis 

 corticea, Hb., showing the variation of the species at Deal. Mr. Barker exhibited a 

 dark variety of Arctia Caia, L., and Mr. Weir remarked that he had once seen a 

 series arranged according to whether the antennsE were white or black. Mr. Short 

 exhibited varieties of Arctia Caia, L., in one example the whole markings of half of 

 the superior wings were absent. Mr. Tugwell showed examples of MeliicEa Aurinfa, 

 Rott., from English, Irish, and Scotch localities, and made some observations on the 

 local variation of this species, and a discussion ensued. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



