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Mr. Blenkarn, of E. Dulwich, and Mr. Day, of Carlisle, were elected Members 

 Mr. Brooks exhibited several specimens of Acherontia Atropos, bred by him- 

 self, and radiated varieties of both Arctia lubricipeda and A. menthastri. 



February 8^A— Mr. W. J. LucAS, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited and presented to the Society's collections male and 

 female examples of Oomphus vulgatissinms from the New Forest. Mr. Montgomery, 

 long bred series of Chrysophanus Phlceas, and contributed notes on their life history 

 and variation. Mr. Moore, some 150 species of Coleoptera collected by Prof. 

 Blatchley in Indiana, including five species of Calosoma, an unnamed species taken 

 at an altitude of 14,000 ft. on Mt. Orizaba, Mexico, and a Coccinellid, Megilla 

 maciilata, which herds in thousands for the winter. Mr. Lucas, a specimen of 

 Oryllus campestris from Hastings last year, and a female dragon-fly taken by Mr. 

 Fremlin in the Hebrides, which was probably a variety of Sympetrum striolatum. 

 Mr. Adkin, a series of Melanippe Jluctuata taken at Lewisham in his own garden 

 and in a wood near ; the latter were large and dark forms. Dr. Chapman, a large 

 number of microscopic slides of larval and imaginal Lepidopterous legs to illustrate 

 his paper, entitled, " On the Eelation of the Larval to the Imaginal Legs in 

 Lepidoptera." 



February 22nd. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. J. W. Enock, of Charlton, and Mr. S. Kemp, of Notting Hill, were elected 

 Members. 



Mr. Tomlinson exhibited a specimen of Eristalis tenax and pupa from the 

 Kingston sewage works, and suggested that the species may eventually take an im- 

 portant place in the purification of sewage. Mr. Lucas, several species of exotic 

 Odonaia, to show striking ornamentation of the wings. Mr. Adkin, a series of Cossus 

 ligniperda, taken at Lewisham in June and July last, and read a paper, entitled, 

 " Notes on the Pupation of Cossus ligniperda." Mr. Colthrup, a sawfly cocoon 

 tenanted by a spider. Major Ficklin reported the capture of Macroglossa stellatarum 

 early in February in the city. — Hy. J. Tuenee, Son. Secretary. 



Entomologioal Society of London : February 1th, 1900. — Mr. G. H. 

 Veeeall, President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had appointed Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.Z.S., 

 Mr. W. L. Distant, and Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, as Vice-Presidents. He announced 

 tlie death of Mr. William B. Spence, who had been a Member of the Society since 

 its foundation in 1833, and who was for some years past the only surviving Original 

 Member. 



Mrs. M. de la B. Nicholl, of Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited examples of Achias longividens,Wa\k., a remarkable 

 fly from New Guinea, in which the eyes are set at the end of very long stalk-like 

 processes ; the specimens showed great variation in the length of the eye-stalks, 

 which in the most fully developed males considerably exceeded the length of the 

 wings. Mr. J. W. Tutt, a series of specimens of Epunda lutulenta, including those 

 remarkable variations to whicli he had referred in his notes on the species read at a 



