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The South London ENTOiioLoaiCAL and Natueal History Society: 

 September 28th, 1899.— Mr. A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited photographs to sliow the resting positions of Mamestra 

 persicaricE and Chwrocampa elpenor. Mr. Jager, his more important captures in 

 S. Devon this year, including Caradrina ambigua, Lithosia caniola, Leucania albi- 

 puncta, and Synia musculosa. Mr. Harrison, long and fine varied series of Agrotis 

 vestigialis {valUgera) and A. tritici taken this year at Wallasey. Mr. K,. Adkin, 

 specimens of the Lepidoptera taken at Wisley during the Society's Field Meeting in 

 July. Mr. Edwards, a pupa of DeiJephila euphorbice, vrhich liad clianged in a frail 

 cocoon made in a glass-topped box. Dr. Chapman recorded an emergence of the 

 species after eighteen days in the pupa stage. Mr. Turner, a bred series of Cabera 

 pusaria, showing extreme variation in the transverse lines, and a fitie female variety 

 of Bombyx quercux, v. callunce, with the basal fovere suffused with the male 

 coloration, and tlie sub-marginal area semi-diaphanous ; it was from Carlisle. Mr. 

 Manger, a number of interesting Crustaceans taken on the N. coast of Europe and 

 Asia by some members of the mercantile expedition which annually attempts the 

 navigation of the Obi and Yenisei. Mr. Gadge, a Bombyx neustria, with three 

 perfect wings, and no trace of the left fore-wing. Mr. Colthrup, a larva of Odonestis 

 potatoria, only about half grown, taken in May, together with a B. quercus, v. cat- 

 luncB, in which the transverse line of the fore-wings was almost straight. Mr. Lucas, 

 a series of the rare dragon-fly, Sympetrum Jlaveolum, and contributed notes on its 

 occurrence ; they were from Ockham Common. Mv. .MeArthur, specimens of 

 Dianihcecia carpophaga, bred from near Brighton, including some beautiful forms 

 with snowy patches. Mr. Tutt, a postal box of Heterocera he had just received 

 from Natal, collected by Mr. Cheeseman. Mr. Harrison, specimens of the so-called 

 jumping beans, which were seeds of a species of Euphorbia, tenanted by larvae of 

 Carpocapsa saltitans. The Report of the Wisley Field Meeting was communicated 

 by Mr. Ashdown. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : October 4th, 1899. — Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall, President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death, at the advanced age of 8G years, of M. 

 Hippolyte Lucas, an Honorary Fellow of the Society. He gave a brief account of 

 the career, and eulogized the work, of the distinguished French Entomologist. 



He also announced the death of Mr. Samuel Stevens, and in reference thereto, 

 said the Society had to deplore the loss of one of its oldest and most highly esteemed 

 Fellows. Mr. Stevens was formerly for many years Treasurer, and had also been a 

 Vice-President, and during tiie whole period of his long connection with the Society 

 had always shown the greatest interest in its welfare. That this interest had up to 

 the last continued unabated was manifested by the terms of his will, in which he 

 had made a bequest to the Society. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. G. Bayford, a specimen of 

 Oalerita bicolor, Drury, a North American beetle of the family Carabidce, said to 

 have been taken many years ago at Doncaster ; also a remarkable variety of Vanessa 

 urticce, L. {ichnusoides, De Selys), captured in the Isle of Sheppey on August 2Sth, 

 1899. Mr. B. A. Bower, dark aberrations of Boarmia rhomboidaria, Hb., in which 

 the normal colour of the fore-wings is replaced by dark brown, causing the fuscous 



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