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A very satisfactory balance sheet was adopted, and the Councirs Report, giving 

 a resume of the past year's work, having been read, the following gentlemen were 

 declared elected to fill the various oSices of the Society :— A. Harrison, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., &c.. President; Dr. Chapman, F.Z.S., and J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Vice-Presi- 

 dents ; T. W. Hall, F.E.S., Treasurer ; H. A. Sauze, Librarian ; W. West, Curator ; 

 Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.E.S., and Henry J. Turner, F.E.S., Hon. Secretaries ; 

 R. Adkin, F.E.S., F. Clark, H. S. Fremlin, F.E.S., M.R.C.P., W. J. Lucas, B.A., 

 F.E.S., H. Moore, A. M. Montgomery, and R. South, F.E.S., Council. The President 

 then read his .Address. 



February iUh, 1899.— Mr. A Hakbison, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Russell exhibited a specimen of I'lusia moneta taken at Southend near 

 Cat ford in July, 1898 ; it was noted how rapidly the species was spreading. Mr. 

 Adkin, a series of Hadena pisi from Aberdeenshire, with S. English forms for 

 comparison ; they were of a blackish-brown or dull purple, showing a strong con- 

 trast to the red English form. Mr. Lucas, a series of Rkt/parobia (PanchloraJ 

 madercE taken at Kew Gardens, in a package received from the Belgian Congo, and 

 contributed notes on its distribution. Mr. Main, specimens of the brilliant Coleo- 

 pteron, Aspidomorpha sanctacritcis from Bombay, which had been presei'ved in a 

 dilute solution of formalin. A discussion ensued as to the amount of formalin in 

 the solution, and also as to its action ; it was thought that no more was necessary 

 than just sufficient to sterilize the water, say 1 °l^. Mr. Harrison, a bred series of 

 Pseudoterpna pruinata {cytisaria) from New Forest larvae. Mr. Fremlin read a 

 note received from Mr. Chadwick, of Devonshire, giving an account of an observa- 

 tion of Amphipyra pyramidea swimming across a stream at least thirty yards wide. 

 In the discussion which ensued Mr. Tutt and others gave various instances of the 

 swimming capabilities of several species of Lepidoptera. Mr. Chapman then read 

 a paper, entitled, " Some Points in the Evolution of the Lepidopterous Antennae," 

 illustrating his remarks by blackboard diagrams and numerous figures of antennal 

 sculpture. A discussion took place, and it was considered that the paper was one 

 of the most important of the series of evolutionary studies which Mr. Chapnan had 

 for some time been contributing to various societies and magazines. —Ht. J. Turner, 

 Ron. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: February \bth, 1899. — Mr. George 

 H. Verball, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. James E. Collin, of Sussex Lodge, Newmarket, was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



Mr. B. A. Bower exhibited perfectly black melanic examples of Boarmia 

 abietaria, Hb., bred from ova laid by a female of the ordinary Box Hill form, which 

 was captured on July 9th, 1897. They were part of a brood of seventeen, seven of 

 which were of black aberration ; and for comparison with them, he showed speci- 

 mens from Box Hill, South Devon, and the New Forest. Mr. Blandford, some 

 lumps of common salt burrowed by larvae of Dermestes vulpinus, to which he had 

 incidentally referred in a letter just jJublished in " Nature." They were sent to him 

 by Sir H. T. Wood, Secretary of the Society of Arts, who received them from a 

 correspondent writing from a prcserved-meat factory in Australia. It was a mistake 



