ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 2nd, at 7 p.m. 



PAPERS TO BE READ : 



" Notes on Lyccena (recte Thecla) Rhymnus, TengBtrcemii, and Pretiosa :" by 



George T. Baker, F.L.S. 

 " The Effects of Artificial Temperature on the Colouring of Vanessa urticse and 



certain other species of Lepidoptera :" by Frederic Merrifield, F.E.S. 

 " On the Variation in the Colonr of the Cocoons of Eriogaster lanestris and Sa- 



turuiacarpini ;" by W. Bateson, M.A., communicated by Dr. D. Sharp, F.E.S. 



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-^ the Northern Counties of England, viz., Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, 

 Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmorland, 

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