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Mr. Bishop, a bred series of Plusia moneta from Chinnor, and read full notes on 

 their life-history, with especial reference to the colouring of the cocoons. Mr. South, 

 (1) a series of Aglais {^Vanessa) urticse, which he had fed upon hop. There seemed 

 to be no aberrational result, and the variation consisted in a reduction of yellowish 

 spaces on the costa. (2) Several specimens of Cleora glabraria, bred from New 

 Forest larvae. One example was very considerably suffused and clouded with 

 blackish. (3) A series of Acidalia trigeminata, bred from Wisley larvae, a few fed 

 up in 1902 and emerged in September, the majority hibernated, but only two 

 pupated, and they emerged in June, 1903, Mr. Tonge, series of Conchylis di/poltella 

 from Brighton, Cramhiis alpinellus from Arundel, five examples of Senta uIvk from 

 near Lowestoft, one Leucania straminea bred from a larva found near Lowestoft on 

 sedge, and a specimen of L. ohsoleta from the same place. Mr. Groulton, photographs 

 of the larvae of Odontopera hidentata, Jocheiera aJni, Hemaris fuciformis, Halias 

 ^rasina, and Phorodesma smaragdaria. Mr. West (Greenwich), a series of the 

 local Hemipteron, Aradus dejjressus, from Darenth under bark. Mr. Carr, living 

 specimens of Acanthosoma tristriatum beaten from juniper at Salisbury. — Hy. J. 

 TUENER, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : October 1th, 1903. Professor E. B . 

 PouLTON, M.A., D.Sc, P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. M. Littler, Althome, High Street, Launceston, Tasmania ; Dr. H. Swale, 

 M.B., Arawa House, Rotorua, New Zealand ; Col. Jesse Griggs Pilcher, I. M.S., 

 F.R.C.S., 133, Gloucester Road, Kensington, S.W. ; Mr. S. A. Neave, B.A., 

 Magdalen College, Oxford ; and Mr. C. A. Wiggins, Kisuma, Lake Victoria Nyanza, 

 British East African Protectorate ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited on behalf of Professor Beare some specimens of 

 a Niptus new to the British list, captured in a granary at Strood on May 11th, 1901. 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, on behalf of Mr. Charles Pool, specimens of the same specie s, 

 an insect closely resembling N. crenatus, but with distinct shoulders, and more 

 parallel elytra which are less strongly striated. They were found ia large numbers 

 in a cornchandler's at Edmonton. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, specimens of 

 Aphanhticus emarginatus from Parkhurst Forest, where it occurred plentifully this 

 year, a beetle new to the British list, and a Scymnus new to science from Yar- 

 mouth, Tsle of Wight. Mr. M. Burr, a living adult male earwig, Lahidura riparia, 

 Pall., captured near Boscombe at the end of August, 1903. He said that tlie very 

 noticeable pale coloration becomes darker after death, sometimes nearly black, which 

 might account for some of the numerous " colour-varieties." Dr. Norman Joy, a 

 specimen of Argynnis Selene, taken last year in Berkshire, showing a remarkable 

 tendency to melanism ; also rare Coleoptera, taken in the same county during 1903. 

 Sir George Hampson, a collection of Norwegian butterflies made by him on the 

 Dovrefjeld, on the Altenfiord, at Bossekop, and other localities this year, including 

 fine series of CoUas Hecla, Lef., Chrysophanus Hippothoe, var. Stieberi, Gerh., (Eneis 

 Noma, Thnb., Melitsea var. norvegica, Auriv., the Norwegian form of M. aurelia, 

 Argynnis Freija, and A. Frigga, a Labrador, arctic, and North American species, now 

 found further south at Kongsvold for the first time. Mr. A. H. Jones, examples of 

 Erebia Christi, taken this summer in the Laquinthal, and of the species to which 



