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Jamiary 8t?i, 19n3. — Tlie President in the Cliair. 



Mr. Oldaker, of Dorking ; Mr. Spitzly, of Canonbury ; Mr. Priske, of Acton ; 

 Mr. Pratt, of Richmond ; and Mr. Goulton, of Balham ; were elected Members. 



Mr. Goulto7i exhibited an extreme form of the light coloured Folkestone race 

 of Kmaturga atomnria. Mr. Chittenden, a short series of F.pkyrn pendularia, in- 

 cluding very fine examples of the rosy form, v. xubroseata, from Staffordshire, very 

 pale examples from ChiselliursL, and light banded forms from Ashford. Mr. Lucas, 

 on behalf of Mr Kemp, an aberration of A'/irtZ/ai/wrt cyathigeriDii, with one stigma 

 missing. Mr. Kemp, his collection of the genus Donacia, comprising sixteen 

 species, and called particular attention to the great variation shown by D. discolor, 

 and pointed out the empty cocoon, which clearly showed the small perforation, 

 which communicates with the intercellular air spaces of the root to which it is 

 attached. Mr. Kaye, examples of Amorpha Aiistaufi and Smerinthnf: atlanticus 

 from N. Africa, together with the exceedingly rare hybrid, metis, the produce of 

 A. Austauti ^ and S. atlanticus 9 • He also showed the hyb. hyhridus, the 

 produce of 8. ocellatus $ and A. populi ? . Mr. Adkin read the Report of the 

 Field Meeting held at Otford, Kent, on June 21st, 1902. Mr. Step read the Report 

 of the Field Meeting held at Byfleet, on July 19th, 1902. A large number of 

 slides were exhibited by Messrs. Ste]i, Lucas, Dennis, Longe, Cant, Kaye and 

 Clarke, comprising illustrations of Protective Resemblance in Insects, studies of 

 wild flowers, flowering and fruiting hnbits of our more common trees, ova of 

 Lepidoplern, and special collecting spots. Mr. Kaye's slides were from photographs 

 taken during his tour in British Guiana. 



Annnal Meeting, Jamiary 22nd, 1903. — The President in the Chair. 



The early part of the Meeting was devoted to receiving the Report of the 

 Council and Officers for the past year, the election af Officers and Council for the 

 coming year, and the reading of the President's Address. The following is a list of 

 Officers and Council elected for the Session 1903-4. President, E. Step, F.L S. ; 

 Vice-Presidents, F. Noad Clark and J. H. Carpenter, F.E.S. ; Treasurer, T. W. 

 Hall, F.E.S. ; Hon. Curator, W. West; Hon. Librarian, H. A. Sauze ; Hon. 

 Secretaries, S. Edwards, F.L.S. and H. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; Council, R. Adkin, 

 F.E.S., T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., H. S. Fremlin, F.E.S., A. Harrison, F.L.S., 

 G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S., W. J. Lucas, B.A., and H. Main, B.Sc. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited specimens of Sympetrum sanyuineum from the 

 Black Pond, Esher, and from Staples Pond, Loughton, botli being new localities. 

 He also showed Papilio macrosifans and /'. philolaus from S. America. — Ht. J. 

 Turner, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : Decemher ^ird, 1902. — The Rev. Canon 

 Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. , President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Philip J. Barraud, Bushey Heath, Herts ; Mr. William E. Butler, Hayling 

 House, Oxford Road, Reading ; and Dr. Malcolm Cameron, R.N., H.M.S. Harrier, 

 Mediterranean Station ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. H. W. Andrews exhibited a male specimen of Therioplectes luridus, from 

 Chattonden, July, 1902. Females of this species were taken by Colonel Yerbury at 

 Nethy Bridge, N.B., in 1900, but there appeai-s to be no record of the capture of 



