1 o [January, 



Thb Soutu London Entomological and Natural Histoet Society: 

 Octoher 13^.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Russell, The Limes, Southend, Catford, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Drury, F.R.H.S., presented a large number of Tortrices and TinecB to the 

 Society's collections. Messrs. Ashdowii and Lucas presented numerous specimens 

 of Dragon-flies. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a series of Polia chi from Yorkshire ; they were taken at 

 rest on dark stone hedges, and were most conspicuous even from a distance. Mr. 

 Fremlin for Mr. Auld, eleven hybrids between Pycjara curtula and P. anachoreta, 

 bred by Dr. Knaggs in April, 1898, together with typical specimens of both species 

 for comparison. It was noted that the markings for the most part followed the 

 female parent, P. curtula ; he also showed various races of the Tephrosias, T. lari- 

 caria and T. hiandularia ; a fine bred series of Phorodesma hajularia from the New 

 Forest ; specimens of Zonosoma anmdata, var. obsohta, from Devon ; unusually dark 

 forms of Emydia cribrum ; a few Engonia autumn aria, bred from a female taken at 

 Folkestone ; and a bred seines of Hemithea strigata {thipniaria). Mr. Turner, a bred 

 specimen of Vanessa polychloros from Horsham, much darker and comparable to 

 some of those produced in Mr. Merrifield's temperatui-e experiments. Mr. Kaye, a 

 Syntomid moth, Macroneme ladis, from Venezuela, and a species of wasp which it 

 mimicked ; it had a remarkable development of the hairs on the long posterior legs. 

 Mr. West, of Grreenwich, specimens of the Hemipteron, Ploiaria vagahiinda from 

 Reigate. Mr. Tutt read a pajjer, entitled " Scientific Aspects of Entomology." — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: November 2nd, 1898. — Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ambrose Quail, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, was elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



Mr. Mcrrifield exhibited some Melitcea Aurinia from Touraine forced and cooled 

 as pupoe, the latter being much the darker and more strongly marked, some Euchloe 

 cardamines from Sussex, those cooled having the apices of the wings darker and the 

 discal spots smaller than those which had been forced, and some Colias Edusa from 

 eggs laid by two normal females taken in Savoy, two out of the five reared being of 

 the var. Helice ; the marginal border of one male which had been forced was very 

 pale and much suffused with long yellow scales : he also showed four Papilio 

 Machaon ; two of them forced as pupse had their dark parts very pale and their tails 

 long and slender, the two which had been cooled having the dark parts much ex- 

 tended in area and darkened in hue, their tails being short and broad. These 

 results, which were to be obtained with winter as well as summer pupse, corresponded 

 with those previously obtained by Dr. Standfuss. Mr. J. J. Walker, two winter 

 nests of Porthesia chrysorrhaea from the Isle of Sheppey, where the species had 

 lately become very common. Dr. Mason, a Buprostid larva found among Baltic 

 timber at Burton-on-Trent ; this had been among wood in a box since the beginning 

 of July last, and there was scarcely a trace of frass. Marsham had recorded the 

 escape of a larva of Buprestis spJendens from the wood of a desk in the Gruildhali, 

 which had stood there for more than twenty years (Liu. Trans., vol. x). It is pro- 



