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W. J. Kaye, specimens of Larentin didymafa, bred off bi-oom from Co. Kerry. 

 Tliey liad a very reduced central blnck bantl and all the markings were clearly 

 contrasted with the pale ground colour. Profes.sor E. 15. i'oulton, F.R.8., gave 

 a long address on " Recent Researches in Protective Rescnjblance, Warning Colours, 

 and Mimicry in Insects," and illustratctl liis remarks with a large number of 

 lantern slides. 



March 2Qth, ]I)03. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. E. Warne, St. John's Hill, Clapham, was elected a Member. 



Mr. JenningB exhibited a series of the local Cryptocephaliis hipiiuclatus (v. 

 ^iweo/a, E.) taken at Charing, Kent, on hazel bushes. Mr. Coltlirup, hibernating larval 

 nests of Vorthesia chrysorrhoda from Newhaven, where they could be found abun- 

 dantly. Mr. W.J. Kaye, the two Ithom lines, Methona confiisa and Thyridia psidii 

 from JBritisii Guiana, and remarked on the wonderful agreement in colour between 

 these two distinct species, both there and in Paraguay. Mr. Adkiii, a very dark 

 example of Amorpha (SineriiilhtisJ popiili, bred from a larva taken at iJexley. It 

 was considerably darker than a Sutiierland example in botli the olive-grey of the 

 fore-wings and the red patch of the hind-wings. Dr. Chapman, specimens of 

 Lasioptera rubi, a Cecidomyid that makes swellings in the stems of bramble. Mr. 

 Hy. J. Turner, a large number of species of various Orders of Insects, collected at 

 Amershaiu, Bucks, during a week's holiday spent there at the end of June, 1902, 

 and gave Notes on the Eauna and Elora of the district. — Hy. J. Turnek, Hon. 

 Secretary. 



Entomological SociErr of London : March IHth, 11)03. — Professor E. B. 

 PoaLTON, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley, Durban, Natal; Mr. J. C. Dollman, Newton Grove, 

 Bedford Park, W. ; Mr. W. W. Rowlands, Lickey Grange, near Bromsgrove ; and 

 Prof. J. H. Taylor, M. A., The Yorkshire College, Leeds; were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The Rev. E. D. Morice exhibited, with drawings, a dissected gynandro- 

 morphous specimen of a bee {Osmia fulviventris, Panz), sent him (with the 

 gynandromorphous Eucera exhibited at the last meeting, and several other similar 

 monstrosities) by M. Jean Vachal of Argentat, France. The species is a common 

 one ; whether that called fulviventris in the British List is a variety of it, or a 

 distinct species, is not yet finally decided. Mr. A. liacot, a number of specimens of 

 Malacosoma neustria x castrensis in various stages, including a series of six (J i 

 and sixteen $ $ imagines reai-ed during 1902 from one batch of ova laid by a ? 

 castrensis, which had been mated with a <? neustria, and two $ ? reared from 

 another batch of ova the result of a similar cross ; also blown larvae of hybrid 

 parentage, and twigs showing attempts at ovipositing on the part of ? ? hybrids 

 that had paired with hybrid c? <J of the same brood ; also a series of M. neustria, 

 M. castrensis and the hybrid moths reared during 1901 for comparison. The 

 females attempted egg-laying, adopting the position and motions of normal females 



