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Gibraltar, which lie named neargurala, and he was in doubt whether it was a var. 

 of hi/era na, or a new species. Mr. W. J. Kaye specimens of the moths Casfnia 

 fon.sco/ombei and Profambulyx t/ana.iciix, showing the warning and protective 

 colouring of the two species. Mr. II. W. Andrews, specimens of EriMalis crypt- 

 arum, F., and Didea alneti, Fin., two species of uncommon Sfirphidx from the 

 New Forest. Mr. Edward Harris, a brood of Hemerophila ahruptaria bred by 

 him this season, together wit'i the parent male and female ; the female, a dark 

 specimen, was taken in his garden at Upper Clapton, on May 25th, and the male, a 

 normal type, at Ilford, on May 26th. Of the offspring, eighteen in all, eight were 

 females, of which four were dark specimens and of normal size. Of the ten males 

 five were dark examples, darker than the females, but small even for males- 

 They were smaller than the light specimens of the same brood. One of the light 

 males emerged with only three wings, the left, fore-wing being absent. From 

 dark specimens mated on August 12th fifty-seven larvse had been reared. Pay- 

 master-in-Chief Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., some beautiful and interesting ex- 

 amples of Leucanid favicolor, Barrett, including the varieties described by Barrett 

 in the current volume of the Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 61, and, more recently, by Tutt 

 in the Entomologist's Record for this year, p. 252. He also exhibited a beauti- 

 ful series of twenty-four Caiiiptogramma JJuviala, the descendants of a wild pair 

 captured on September 22nd, 1903, showing a wide range of colour variation. 

 The President, a photogragh taken by Mr. A. H. Hamm, showing protective flower 

 selections by Pieris rapce. The Presidenlr also exhibited four specimens of Conorr- 

 hinus megisfua, Burm., the large South American Reduviid whicli is well known to 

 attack man, out of over a dozen brought back by Mr. W. J. Burchell in 1828. 



Wednesday, November lijth, 1904. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward Goodwin, of Canon Court, Wateringbury, Kent, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. II. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited the second recorded British specimen of 

 Orchesies sparsus, Fahr., taken by him on August 28th last in the New Forest. 

 Mr. II. W. Andrews, specimens of Atherix crassipes, Mg., from the New Forest, 

 the only previously recoi'ded locality in Britain being near Ticehurst, Sussex. Mr. 

 G. O. Sioper, two aberrant forms of Melitceu athalia, ^ and ? , from Lugan, above 

 Corberier, Switzerland, and one J from Martigny, taken on June 26th of this year. 

 The tendency of tlie black markings to supersede the fulvous was particularly 

 noticeable in the latter specimen. The President, cases containing Diptera, and a 

 case containing the skins of African Sphingid larvse, dried in botanical paper, and 

 still preserving their colours, from the iJurcliell collection in the Hope Museum, 

 Oxford. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, a gall of some Lepidopterous insect found on the 

 Califate bushes in Patagonia. The gall resembled that of Cynips kollari, but was 

 hollow, the walls being about l inch in thickness. The circular door prepared by 

 the iarvce was about J- inch in diameter. The pupa was lying free, without any silk 

 cocoon. It was suggested that the insect was perhaps allied to CEcoceci^. Mr. 

 G. H. Kenrick communicated a paper entitled " Natural Selection applied to a 

 Concrete Case." Mr. J. C. Kershaw communicated papers on " Enemies of Butter- 

 flies in South China," and " A Life History of Gerydus sinensis." Mr. Nelson 

 Annandale, B.A., communicated a paper on " The Eggs and Early Stages of a Coreid 

 Bug, probably Dalader acuticosfa, witli a note on its Hymenopterous Parasites." — 

 H. Rowland Bkown, Honorary Secretary. 



