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October 2,7th, 1904..— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chiiir. 



Mr. Goulton e.thibitod ti series of pliotograplis of Lepidopterous larvte on their 

 respective food-plants. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Main, series or examples of Lepi- 

 doptera taken at or bred from Bude, including Cleora lichenaria, Dianthwcia 

 luteago, var. fichlinl, D conspersa, Leucophania sinapia, Polla xanfhomista, and 

 Boarmia gemmariu. Of the last species examples from Delamere and London were 

 also shown. Mr. West (Greenwich), the case of a large species of P.si/chid from 

 South Africa. Mr. Turner reported finding larvae and cases of Coleophora virgau- 

 rese on golden rod at Sevenoaks, Kent, as well as larvae of Eupithecla expallidala. 



November lOth, 1901.— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President in the Chair. 



Mr. Fremlin exhibited ordinary and loosely attached scales of Hemaris fuci- 

 forniis under the microscope. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Main, series of Dianthvecia 

 alhimacula from Folkestone, Cymalophora duplaris, including two melanic speci- 

 mens from Sinionswood Moss, Lancashire, and a form of Melanargia galatkea with 

 a black streak running through the large white basal areas of the fore-wings. Mr. 

 Main, some large Reduviids from West Africa. 



A special meeting was then held to consider the proposed alteration of Bye- 

 Laws. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Societi' of London : Wednesday, November 2nd, 1904. — 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. A. Agar, of La Haut, Dominica, British West Indies ; Mr. Richard 

 Siddoway Bagnall, of the Groves, Winlaton-on-Tyne, Durham ; Mr. Kenneth 

 Glyne Blair, of 23, West Hill, Ilighgate, N. ; Mr. Edward Alfred Cockayne, B.A., 

 of 30, Bedford Court Mansions, W.C. ; Mr. George Blundell Longstaff, D.M., of 

 Twitchen, Mortehoe, R.S O , Devon, and Highlands, Putney Healh, S.W. ; Mr. 

 Richard Arthur Ruby Priske, of 66, Chaucer Road, Acton ; and Mr. Herbert W. 

 Simmonds, of 17, Aurora Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand ; were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a specimen of Platyphora lubbocki, Verr., a species 

 of Phoridie parasitic upon ants, the first recorded specimen since the one originally 

 bred by the present Lord Avebury in 1875, and described for him by Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall in the Journal of the Linnaean Society for 1877. Mr. P. J. Barraud, an 

 aberrant Epinephele jurlina (janiraj, $ , taken by him this year in the New 

 Forest, agreeing with the form recently described by Mr. Roger Verity as ab. 

 anommata. Mr. J. Edwards sent for exhibition three specimens of Bagous hitosus, 

 Gyll., one found by himself on Wretham Heath, Norfolk, on August 4th, 1900 — 

 the first recorded authentic British example— and two taken in the same locality by 

 Mr. Thouless on May 2nd, 19U3 ; also Bagous glabrirostr is, Herbst, from Camber, 

 Sussex, for comparison. Dr. T. A. Chapman, bred specimens of Hastula (Epagoge, 

 Hb. ?) hyerana. Mill., from larvae taken at Hyeres last March, and said the facts 

 that the pale forms only have hitherto been known, whereas of those bred nearly 

 half are dark, suggests either that really very few specimens are in collections — 

 which is the most probable case — or that melanism is now affecting the species. 

 The larvae are not uncommon at Hyeres. Before he bred the species this year a 

 single dark specimen only was known, viz., one taken by Lord Walsingham at 



