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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 December 8th, 1904.— Mr. K. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Cliair. 

 Mr. Grosvenor, of Red Hill, Surrey, was elected a Member. 



Ml". Tonge, a donation of some 35 species of British Lepidoptera. Mr. Main, 

 Orthoptera from Borneo and the Cape. Mr. West, a specimen of the extremely rare 

 Coleopteron, Tropiderea sepicola, taken by him in tlie New Forest in the summer of 

 1904. Mr. Edwards, the parasitical bee, Cunlioxyn elonqata, from Blackheath, and 

 read notes on its habits. Mr. Dobson, series of Geometra vernaria and Aglossa 

 cvprealis, which had come to light at dusk around his house at Maldon. The 

 remainder of the evening was devo(ed to an exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. 

 Tonge, ova of Lepidojttera, Goulton and Step, Lepidopterous larvse, and Main 

 resting positions of larvse and imagines of Lepidoptera. 



January \2th, 1905. — Mr. E. Step, Vice-President in the Chair. 



The President referred to the death of Mr. C. G. Barrett who had been 

 a former President of the Society, and it was unanimously agreed to send a letter 

 of condolence to Mrs. Barrett and family. 



Mr. Main exhibited Panorpa communix, and r.germanieaivora Folkestone. Mr. 

 Lncas, P. cognata, the rarest British scorpion -fly and the other two species for com- 

 parison, with a female of P. cognata taken during the Field Meeting at Byfleet, on 

 July 23rd, also Chry.topa ventralis from the same locality. Mr. Goulton, photographs 

 of Lepidopterous larvse. Mr. Joy, varieties of Epinephele hyperanthus (1) with 

 white ocelli on the upper-side of the hind-wing, (2) with the ocelli on the under- 

 side wholly or partially reduced to mere dots = var. arete, and (3) with elongate 

 ocelli on the under-side = ab. lanceolata. Mr. E. Adkin gave an account of the 

 Annual Meeting of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, which he 

 attended as the Society's delegate, and read the Report of the Field Meeting 

 held at Eynsford on June 25th, 1904. Mr. Lucas read the Report of the 

 Field Meeting at Byfleet on July 23rd, and then showed a number of lantern 

 slides illustrative of Protective Resemblance in Insects, kindly lent him by Mr. 

 Hamm of the Hope Museum, Oxford. — Henry J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : March \st, 1905.— Mr. F. Meeri- 

 PIELD, President, in the Chair. 



The Duke of Bedford, K.G., President of the Zoological Society, &c., of Woburn 

 Abbey, Beds., and 15, Belgrave Square, S.W. ; M. Lucien Chopard, Membre de la 

 Societe Entomologique de France, of 98, Boulevard St. Germain, Paris ; Mr. Wil- 

 frid Fleet, F.R.A.S., of " Imatia," Bournemouth ; and Mr. Robert Sidney Mitford, 

 C.B., of 35, Redcliffe Square, S.W. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



