292 [December, 1900. 



Among other notable species albinos of CoUas Heldreichi (female) were taken, G. 

 rhamiii, y&v.farinosa, and Lyccerm ottomanus, while Mr. Elwes further expressed 

 his opinion that a Lyccena taken as a var. of L. semiargus was a distinct species. 

 Miss Fountaine mentioned in connection with these exhibits that Colias Heldreichi 

 swarmed on Mount Kehnos, from 4000 to 70O0 feet ; and Mr. Elwes remarked that 

 Miss Fountaine was the first British collector known to have captured this insect. 

 Mr. H. H. May, a variety of Strenia clathrata, taken on the Southdowns, in which the 

 ground colour of the wings was of a uniform dark chocolate-brown. Mr. F. Enock, 

 a male bee, Stelis aterruna, parasitic in the nests of Osmia fulviventris, and usually 

 considered a rare insect. The specimen was taken on August 14th, 1900, in a garden 

 at HoUoway. Papers were communicated on " Descriptions of new species and a 

 new genus of South American Eumolpidce, with remarks on some of the genera," by 

 Mr. M. Jacoby ; and on " Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Northern China, Japan, and 

 Corea" (Part IV), by Mr. J. II. Leech, B.A., F.Z.S., &c. 



October Hth, 1900.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. J. Digby Firth, The Grammar School, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Man- 

 chester, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited a series of Pararge Mcera, a light form resembling 

 P. Megara from the Basses Alpes and the Cevennes ; a dark form approaching P. 

 Siera from Cortina ; and an intermediate form from the Italian Lakes ; also a 

 variety of Lyccena Corydon, female, in which the under-wing showed a decided 

 blue coloration, taken at Lago di Loppio, near Eiva. Dr. Chapman suggested that 

 the union between the three named species of Pararge was very near, if the species 

 were not indeed identical. Mr. A. J. Scollick, a specimen of Cethosia cyane, a 

 species confined to India and the Malayan region, which had been taken this year 

 on the wing near Norwich. It was suggested by Mr. Distant that this was a case of 

 accidental importation, probably in the pupal condition. Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, 

 specimens of Erebia glacialis, taken this year on the Stelvio Pass, showing transi- 

 tional forms of the var. Alecto. He said that the typical form and the variety were 

 not found flying together, but on opposite sides of the valley. Dr. Chapman ob- 

 served that the darker specimens approached the form of E. melas, found in the 

 neighbourhood of Cortina-di-Arapezzo. Specimens of E. glacialis also exhibited 

 from Saas Fee and Evolena showed marked inferiority in size and brilliancy of colour. 

 Mr. W. L. Distant, a piece of Hawkesbury sandstone from Australia, showing the 

 borings of Termites, nwd. in connection with the same communicated a note from the 

 Proceedings of the Linnsean Society of New South Wales (Pt. Ill, 1899, p. 418), 

 as follows : — '' Mr. D. Q-. Stead exhibited specimens of Hawkesbury sandstone (1) 

 from the sea-shore between tide marks showing the tunnelling of Marine Isopods 

 (SphcBroma) with the living animals in situ ; and (2) from the hill-tops overlooking 

 Port Jackson, offering examples of the borings which so often attract notice, and the 

 production of which has been attributed to Hymenoptera, and also to the Termites. 

 Since last meeting Mr. Stead reported that he had investigated the matter, and that, 

 after breaking up a quantity of stone, he had come upon Termites, of a species at 

 present undetermined, actually at work, specimens of which he exhibited. Mr. M. 

 Burr, a male and female specimen of Anisolabis colossea, Dohrn, from New South 

 Wales — the largest known earwig in the world. — C. J. Gahan and H. Rowland 

 Brown, Hon. Sees. 



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