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Siitlicrhinilsliirc lent. b_y Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, none of llieni however comparable in 

 darkness to tliosc obtained by his experiment ; and others from tlie collections of 

 Mr. A. Bacot (including four of the American species) and Mr. L. B. Front. Mr. 

 Tutt said tliat the limits of variation of onr own form were little known, and the 

 most northern examples, though the largest, were decidedly not the darkest. Mr. 

 R. South communicated a paper by the late Mr. J. H. Leech, B.A., entitled, 

 " Lepidoptera-Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea;" and Mr. G. C. Champion 

 contributed " Notes and Observations upon tlie sexual dimorphism of Buprestis 

 sanguinea." 



October UUh, 1901.— Mr. E. Saunders, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



M. J. H. Fabre, of Serignan, Vaueluse, France, was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow of the Society ; and Mr. W. Sehaus, F.Z.S., of Treiitliam House, Twicken- 

 ham, an Ordinary Fellow. 



Mr. C. Morlcy exhibited for the Eev. E. N. Bloomfield leaves of hornbeam 

 from Battle, and a photograph of leaves of sweet chestnut from Haslemere, rolled 

 by Attelahus curculionoides. The former were not rolled by reason of a scarcity of 

 their usual oak, which abounds in the locality. Mr. R. Adkin, a specimen of Pieris 

 Daplidice taken by him at Eastbourne on August 19th last; he said that the 

 insect was Hying strongly, and in that respect, and indeed in genci-al appearance, 

 resembled on the wing a pale female of Colias llyale. Mr. Rowland-Brown asked 

 if there were any records of recent date of the discovery of the larva in this 

 country, and with Mr. A. H. Jones corroborated the swift liabit of Hight in the 

 species. In the discussion upon immigrant species that lollowed, Mr. R. McLachlan 

 said that the recent observations of rapitin Mnchaon in various parts of the 

 country seemed to suggest immigration on the jiart of a species not usually regarded 

 as niigralory; he also said that he knew of no reliable evidence of the larva of 

 Pieris Daplidice having occurred on this side of the Channel. Mr. C;. P. Pickett, 

 a series of Melitaa Cinxia bred in June last from larvae taken in the Isle of Wight, 

 including light and dark varieties of the ? ? , one S with extra light upper wings, 

 and one <? with the lower wings almost black ; he also exhibited a series of Chcero- 

 campa elpenor bred in June last from larvae taken at Broxbourne in July, 1900, 

 including a variety of the (? with purplish lower wings, and another with purple 

 markings on the upper wings. The Rev. F. D. Slorice, specimens of Hedychrum 

 rutilans, Dhl., and Salius propinquus, Lep., taken at Lyndhurst by Miss Ethel 

 Chawner, and both new to the British list ; he also exhibited two monstrosities, 

 viz. : Allantus arcuatus, <? (sawfly), having on the left side two perfect and two 

 other rudimentary wings, and Gorytes quinquecinctus (fossor), with the abdominal 

 segments extraordinarily twisted out of their proper shape and places. Mr. E. 

 Saunders said that these specimens appeared to him identical with continental 

 propinquus, which was not rare in the south of Europe, where it was sometimes 

 black, and sometimes red, towards the middle of the abdomen, but that he thought 

 it could not be a variety of any other British species, as we have no species with a 

 rugose propodeum which could agree with it. Mr. Arthur M. Lea comnmnicated 

 " A list of the Australian and Tasmanian MordeUidce, with descriptions of new 

 species ;" and Mr. Edward Meyrick,B.A., F.Z.S., " Descriptions of new Lepldoptera 

 from New Zealand." Mr. E. Saunders then read a paper upon " Hymenoptera- 

 Aculeata collected in Algeria by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, M.A., F.E.S., anil the Rev. 

 F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S., pt. i, Heterogyna and Fossor'^s, to the end of Pom- 

 pilidce." — H. Rowland-Brown, Eon. Sec. 



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