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the thanks of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society be 

 given to the Committee of the Entomological Society of London for the Protection 

 of Species of Insects in danger of extermination ; that the Society strongly approves 

 of the work, and that the Members present pledge themselves to use their personal 

 efforts to further the objects of the Coaimittee. 



March 2oth, 1897.— The President in the Chair. 



B. H. Waters, Esq., of 48, Finsbury Pavement, E.C., was elected a Member. 



Mr. McArthur exhibited specimens of Melanippe hastata from various localities, 

 and said that he had never taken the species in Shetland nor had he seen the food- 

 plant there. Rev. E. Tarbat, a gynandromorphous specimen of Melanargia Galatea. 

 taken at Swanage. The markings of the under-side followed those of the upper, 

 Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a bred series of Anchocelis rujina, from Huddersfield, 

 which were less uniformly tinted than the southern examples of this species usually 

 are. Mr. Tutt, specimens of Phigalia pedaria (pilosaria) taken near Bradford by 

 Mr. Butterfield, who reported the dark varieties as much more common this year 

 than he had noticed before, and attributed the variation to scarcity of food, especially 

 as the examples were small, thinly scaled and badly pigmented. Mr. Mansbridge 

 said the black was of a different kind to that of the melanic specimens he had seen 

 from the West Riding. Mr. Tutt reported that Mr. Clarke had taken Tephrosla 

 crepuscularia this spring from the wood which Mrs. Bazett had asserted did not 

 produce it, and so confirmed the statement made by Mr. Henderson last October. 

 Rev. E. Tarbat also reported the species from woods near Reading. Mr. Turner, 

 living larvse of Cleora Ucheiiaria, taken in Ashdown Forest, and remarked on their 

 wonderful resemblance to the lichen on which they fed. He also made a few remarks- 

 on the district in anticipation of the proposed visit of the Society at Whitsuntide. 

 'Mr. Adkin, BerieB oi Abraxas ffrossulariata,hred from Perthshire larvae, including 

 a noticeable var. with fore-wings having a broad white central band with a large 

 circular black discoidal spot, and hind-wings also having a large discoidal spot. A 

 paper, entitled, " Representative Species," by Professor A. Radcliffe Grote, A.M., 

 was then read by Mr. Tutt. It showed at some length the identical and parallel! 

 species which existed in the two continents. The evidence pointed to a continuous 

 land connection between the nearctic and palsearctic regions. Mr. Tutt said that he 

 had no doubt that the two faunas had been distributed from the circumpolar region 

 while a subtropical climate existed there. It was announced that the Proceedings 

 for 1896 were now ready for distribution to Members. 



April 8t7i, 1897.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited the following Geometrida from Europe and East Asia : — 

 Eustroma reticulata and var. oerosa, the latter larger and more golden-yellow ; 

 Cidaria silaceata, Chinese specimens, both larger and smaller than European ; 

 C. corylata, Eastern examples very similar; C. ^iea^a, some Chinese specimens, 

 larger and more yellow ; Melanippe procellata, some were larger than European 

 and some with ground colour suffused with a fuliginous shade. Mr. Lucas, 

 specimens of an exotic earwig, Anisolabis annulipes, which could be distinguished 

 from other British species by two white joints near the tip of the antennae. The 

 distinctly ringed femora give it its speciiic name. It was found in 1894 at 

 Tavistock, but the specimens exhibited came from Surrey. Mr. Adkin, a fine 



