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Catocala xpoiixa, with left uppor-winfr entirely suffused with umber-brown ; Pararge 

 egeria, a bred specimen thinly scaled with obscure markings ; Pierh ra/;®, with an 

 indistinct spot on the disc of the hind-wings ; Mamestra brassicee, of a uniform 

 shining leaden-grey colour ; and a series of 31elanippe Jlucfuata, including var. con- 

 tovata, and several banded and resembling M. sociata. Mr. Cole, Catocala nupta, 

 Tar. carulescens, taken on sugar at Brondesbury ; and a var. of C. Si/ale, with a 

 broad elongated splash of black on the under-side of the fore-wings. Mr. Kirkaldy 

 long series of various species of Waterbugs, especially Notonecta glauca, and var. 

 maculata, to show colour variation, and how unreliable it is as a specific character. 

 Mr. Kaye, a specimen of Papilio Machaon, with the submarginal band of tlie fore- 

 wings intet-nally edged with a broad black band, and with the discoidal spot enlarged 

 into a blotch uniting with the band ; and a specimen of Hydrocampa stagnalis, with 

 several of the transverse markings much dininished or obsolete. Mr. Buckstone, 

 Poli/ommatus Icarus, female with blue right upper wing, and a specimen smaller 

 than Cupido minima. Mr. Newman, Smeriiithus ocellatus variety ; dark forms of 

 Eugoniafuscantaria; and a red form of Noctua neglecta. Mr. Brooks, bred Ache- 

 ronlia Atropos, with a very pale variety, and one with very broad and dark markings ; 

 a Pgrameis Atalanta, with a pale border on one hind-wing ; a black fringed 

 Spilosoma radiata ; a very varied series of 3Ielanippe ha.itata ; and living pupae of 

 the first named, which he distributed to the members. — Hy. J. TUBNEE, Hon. See. 



Entomological Society of London: November 7th, 1900. — Mr. 0-. H. 

 Verrall, President, in the Chair. 



Dr. John Cotton, of 126, Prescot Road, St. Helen's ; Mr. Q-eorge H. Howes, of 

 Spey Street, Invercargill, New Zealand ; the Hon. F. M. Mackwood, M.I.C., of 

 Colombo, (-eylon ; Mr. William J. Rainbow, of the Australian Museum, Sydney ; 

 and Mr. Percy Charles Reid, of Feering Bury, Kelvedon, Essex ; were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. G-eorge S. Saunders exhibited specimens, from Devonshire, of Pieris rapcB 

 and Plu.iia gamma caught by the proboscis in flowers of Araujia albens, Don, a 

 climbing plant of the natural Order AsclepiadacecB ; and explained the nature of 

 the mechanism by which the insects were entrapped by the flowers ; also specimens 

 of the " bedeguar " gall formed apparently on the '• hips," or fruit, of Rosa canina, 

 the formation of the galls on the hips being considered unusual. Mr. Gahan re- 

 marked that the capture of insects by Araujia albens had recently been investigated 

 in France by MM. Marchand and Bonjour, whose account appeared in the" Bulletin 

 de la >oo. des Sciences Nat. de I'Ouest de la France," for 1899. These authors con- 

 cluded that insects were captured only by immature flowers, the anther-wings in the 

 cleft between which the proboscis of the insect is caught being at that time stiff and 

 resistant ; but when the flowers are ripe the anther-wings become less rigid, and do 

 not offer sufficient resistance to the withdrawal of the proboscis, which carries with 

 it the pollinia ready to be transferred to the stigma of the next flower visited by 

 the insect. Mr. Tutt, for the Rev. Mr. Burrows, a large series of Epiinda lutulenta 

 from Mucking, in Essex, and made remarks upon several interesting variations in- 

 cluded in the series. Mr. W. J. Kaye, Hydrocampa stagnalis, var., with examples 

 of the typical form for comparison ; the variety differed in having the basal line 



