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Mr. South exhibited a box of Tephrosirr, which lie had purposely mixed as 

 regards dates and localities ; he asked for information as to names, but no one 

 essayed to pick out the two forms. Mr. Auld, larvse of Boarmia roboraria and 

 Limenitis Sibylla from the New Forest, and also larvse of the two PhorodesmcB, P. 

 bajularia and P. smaragdaria, and remarked on the close similarity of the former 

 in its covering of oak remnants to the groups of brown scales enclosing the buds on 

 the oak twigs. Mr. Moore, male and female specimens of the remarkable Mexican 

 Pierid, Pifrisilia proterpia, a bright and rich orange-coloured insect. Mi. Tutt, 

 specimens of Ascalaphiis coccajus, a Neuropterous insect allied to the Ant Lions 

 from Digne, with notes on its histojy, variation and occurrence ; it was originally 

 described as a butterfly. Mr. Edwards, a living Mantis sent from Cannes by Dr. 

 Chapman ; he had had it some six weeks, and it fed readily upon small cockroaches 

 and flies ; he also showed young larvae of Saturnia pavonia, from ova laid by a female 

 taken at Digne. Mr. Adkin, series of Cidaria suffumata from various localities, in- 

 cluding Foi-res, Dover, Boxhill, and Loch Lagan ; those from the latter locality were 

 var. piceala. Mr. Tunaley, specimens of the resinous nodules of pine sent him from 

 Scotland, from which he had bred Hefinia reainella ; he also showed sections of the 

 Biime, and made remarks upon the peculiarities of the cocoon and the method of 

 emergence of the species. Dr. Cliapman exhibited among other insects a living 

 specimen of Charaxes Jaslus, which had just emerged from the pupa of a larva 

 taken at Cannes. Mr. Step communicated a short paper, entitled, "Note on a 

 Variety of Portumis marmoreus," a crab taken at Portscatho, and sent for exhibition 

 coloured drawings of the same. Mr. Tutt read a paper, entitled, " Spring Butterflies 

 on the Riviera," and exhibited a large number of species in illustration. — Henkt J. 

 Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : June 2nd, 1897. — Mr. R. Teimen, 

 F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President referred to the great loss the Society had sustained by the 

 death of Dr. Fritz Miiller, one of its Honorary Fellows, and to his distinguished 

 services in the cause of entomological science, and especially in forwarding the theory 

 of the Origin of Species. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited the larva of Eriocephala Allionella. Mr. Jacoby, a fine 

 example of the large Hepialid, Leto T'enux, from Plettenburg Bay, S. Africa. The 

 President said that the insect afforded an interesting ease of localized distribution, 

 being confined to an area of about fifty by fourteen miles, whereas the larva fed in 

 the wood of Virgilia capensis, a common and widely-distributed leguminous tree. 

 The insect was very conspicuous, and could not have been overlooked in other 

 localities. Mr- Burr, a pair of gynandromorphous earwigs, Chelisoches morio, Fabr., 

 from Java, with ordinary males and females for comparison. In both specimens 

 the right branch of the forceps was of the male, and the left branch of the female 

 form. The lion. Walter Rothschild, a series of specimens of IJudamonia brachyura, 

 Drury, and E. Argiphontes, Kirby, to show the differences between these two West 

 African Saturniid moths. The distinctness of the latter species had been doubted, 

 as until recently it was only known by the unique examples in the Dublin Museum, 



