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colour showing ; one specimen of Heuria saponarice, a new record for the district ; 

 bred series of Asphalia ridens $ , including a so-called black one ; a series of Cymato- 

 phora Jluctuoxa, which he said he had got for the first time comparatively commonly, 

 never having taken more than odd specimens there before. He also said that he had 

 taken a specimen of C octogesima there this year, which thus completed the list of 

 this genus, all the species of which he had obtained in this one locality ; also a bred 

 series of Sesia sphegiformis. Mr. J. T. Fountain, a specimen of Spilosoma men- 

 thastri, which was alive, and had emerged from the pupa on November l7th ; also 

 a Sirex gigas, ^ , from a colliery at Walsall, where it had emerged from some wood 

 at a depth of 800 yards beneath the surface at the beginning of October. Mr. G-. 

 T. Bethune- Baker showed Palsearctic Rhopalocera, including the genus CEneis, and 

 a number of the genus Satyrus ; there was a series of (Eneis Aello, and various 

 'J'urkestan species, good series of Satyrus Alcyone, Hermione, Circe, &c. Mr. 

 C. J. Wainwright showed a series of the handsome Dipteron, Asilus crabroniformis 

 taken in Cornwall this year, a fine series of Leptogaster cylindrica from Hereford- 

 shire, where he had found it common, and various other Asilids, &c. 



December ISth, 1899. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Chas. Pumphrey, 5, Park Road, Moseley, was elected a Member of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright showed Physocephala riifipes from Cornwall, and 

 other Co7)opidce and SyrphidcB. Mr. P. W. Abbott, a series of Nola cucullatella 

 from London, including two very dark ones. Mr. Gr. T. Bethune-Baker, a number 

 of Palsearctic insects of the genus Satyrus., Semele and vars., &c. — CoLBEAN J. 

 Wainwright, Son. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 November 2'Srd, 1899. — Mr. A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Sich exhibited two specimens of Platyptilia acanthodactyla bred from larvge 

 taken off Geranium rotundifolium at Chiswick ; Aglossa cuprealis, showing ex- 

 tremes in size, and Cucullia chamomillce, Chiswick, 1899. Mr. F. M. B. Carr, Sirex 

 gigas from Boldrewood, where eral others had been seen, and numerous species 

 taken at sugar at Wicken in June,' and at Hailsham in August, at both of which 

 times Lepidoptera were plentiful. Mr. R. Adkin, on behalf of Mr. Newman, a 

 series of remarkable varieties : Argynnis Paphia, suSused with black; Smerinihus 

 tiliiT, specimens with the central band reduced to a triangular blotch, and pale 

 ground colour; .S./)op«iJ, pinkish and dark forms; 5a^Mr»ia parowia, sub-diaphanous, 

 bred the third year in pupa ; Pygara. cross, curtula + pigra {reclusa) bred, out of 

 120 specimens only three were males ; and aberrant forms of Arctia Caja, Lasio- 

 campa quercus, &c. Mr. R. Adkin read a paper, entitled, " More Lazy Days by the 

 Sea," being stray notes on a short holiday at Eastbourne. He touched upon many 

 subjects that had come under his notice, including the comparative abundance and 

 scarcity respectively of the commoner species of butterflies, the effect of the un- 

 usually warm summer on some of the moths, an immigration of Pieris rapce, &c. 

 Mr. Carpenter stated that he had examined numerous specimens of V. cardui in the 

 spring, and found they were invariably females. He suggested, since he found no 

 developed ova in them, that they were infertile, and that had they been paired they 

 would not have emigrated. — H. J. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



