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ash. Mr. A. H. Martineau said that he had found them on a spineless holly 

 at Solihull, and reared them on it. Mr. P. W. Abbott, Apamea unanimis, a series 

 from Wicken Fen, one being a very dark one. Mr. Fountain, Hihernia progemmaria 

 \&Y.fuscantaria and H. rupicapraria, freshly taken at Small Heath. Mr. Martineau, 

 photographs of butterflies in the " Kromskop." 



March 20th, 1899.— Mr. Gt. T. Bethune-Bakee, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Epinephele hyperanthus, under-sides, from Carlisle, 

 three being var. Arete, and three being very pale, with spots of the usual size ; also 

 typical specimens for comparison. Mr. Bethune-Baker, a lot of Li/ccEnidce, including 

 a long series of Icarus from many localities, with blue forms of the females from N. 

 Wales, and others from Brusa, Asia Minor, in which the females showed a shade of 

 blue; also nice forms of Co?-_yf/oH from Spain, &c. Mr. R. C. Bro-dlej, Parapont/x 

 nymphcBata and stagnata from various localities, including two white «^a^«aia, small 

 in size, with the markings very faint, locality unknown. Mr. G. H. Kenrick read a 

 paper upon " Some Phases of Variation among the Lepidoptera." He divided 

 varieties into seven different kinds : (1) permanent variation of different broods = 

 Seasonal Dimorphism ; (2) permanent local forms not occurring with the type, 

 snch. &s LyctBna Salmacis; (3) permanent variations occurring with the type, such 

 as Argynnis Yalezina ; (4) species which occur in two or more well marked forms, 

 sometimes connected with intermediates, sometimes not, such as Apamea oculea, 

 Miana strigilis, &c. ; (5) occasional persistent varieties, such as yellow Zygeenids, 

 Arctiids, &c. ; (6) food plant forms, of which TcBuiocampa gracilis apparently 

 presents an example, but of which undoubted examples are very rare ; (7) the 

 rare erratic abnormality, usually unique. He exhibited four drawers of insects 

 containing good examples of each class, and discussed the cause of origin, &c., at 

 some length. — Colbban J. Wainweight, Son. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Nattteal Histoet Society: 

 February 23rd, 1889.— Mr. A. Haeeison, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Rev. F. H. Wood, of Bromley Park, Kent, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Sauze exhibited a specimen of the Heteropteron, Acanthosoma 

 hcBmorrhoidale, taken alive a few hours before in Brixton. Mr. Harrison, a long 

 series of Parnassius Apollo, both bred and captured, arranged to show the variation 

 in the large central ocellus on the hind-wings, also a series of Papilio Podalirius 

 and P. Machaon, both species from Meiringen. Mr. Clarke, specimens of the 

 freshwater shrimp, Oammarus fliiviatilis. Mr. West, of Greenwich, a long series of 

 the four species of the Homopterous genus PhilcBnus, including some hundred 

 different varieties of the common garden spit-fly, P. spumarius. Mr. Moore, a 

 preserved larva of Papilio Cresphoutes of North America. Mr. Step then gave a 

 series of notes and observations he had made during the last few years on our larger 

 British Crustaceans, and he illustrated his remarks by admirable lantern slides from 

 his own photographs. 



March 9th, 1899.— Mr. R. Adein, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Main, two specimens of the sea-spider, Pycnogonum littorale, taken 

 crawling on wooden piles in the Medway at Port Victoria. Mr. Adkin, males, 

 imagines, and cases of Psyche villosella, and also a case of P. opacella. Mr. 



