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Thi5 South Londox Kntomological and Natural History Society: 

 . Januari/ 26th, 1905. — Mr. Alfred Sicii, F.E.S., Vice-President in the Chair. 

 Annual G-eneral .Meeting. 



Tlie first part of the Meeting was devoted to the business of receiving the 

 Treasurer's Balance Sheet and Statement, the reading of the Council's Report for 

 the past year, the announcement of the Officers and Council elected for the ensuing 

 jear, and the reading of the retiring President's Address. A satisfactory financial 

 condition was announced by the Treasurer, Mr. T. W. Hall, and the Council's 

 Eeport showed that the work of the Society had been generally very successful 

 throughout the year, with an average attendance at the 25 meetings of over 30. 



List of the elected Officers and Council : President, Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S. ; 

 Vice-Presidents : A. Sich, F.E.S., and E. Step, F.L.S. ; Treasurer: T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. ; Librarian: A. W. Dodds ; Curator: W. West (Grreenwich) ; Hon. Secre- 

 taries: Stanley Edwards, F.L.S. , F.E.S., and Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; Council: 

 R. Adkin, F.E.S., F. Noad Clark, F. B. Carr, A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.C.S., 

 W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., H. A. Sauze, and W. West (StrealhamJ. 

 Ordinary Meeting. 



Mr. Hugh Main, E.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a living specimen of Doritis apollinux bred from a 

 pupa sent from Syria. Mr. Main reported having seen St/hernia rupicapraria, 

 Phigalia pedaria, Cheimatobia hrumata, H. marginaria, and P. monodactylus in 

 Epping Forest in some numbers, on January 22nd. Mr. Turner read a few notea 

 on the Entomology of Assiniboia, Canada, read by Mr. A. J. Croker. 



Februarii 9th, 1905. — The President in the Chair. 



A special exhibition of Htflernia defoliaria <? s had been arranged, and series 

 were shown by Messrs. Ray ward, Pratt, Crow, Browne, Hickman, Harrison, Main, 

 Goulton, and Tonge. The variation ranged from uniformly dark forms to uniformly 

 light ones, with considerable variation in widths and colour of the transverse 

 markings. It was noted that the <? s migrated in large numbers, but no well 

 ascertained facts were known as to the distribution of the ? s. Mr. Rayward, 

 living females of H. rupicapraria from Wallington. Mr. Crow, on behalf of 

 Mr. Hickman, the whole of the imagines and varieties bred from the brood of 

 Arctia caja, referred to at the Exhibition of Varieties in November, 1904. Mr. 

 Kaye, two forms of TTeliconius pasifhoe from the Demerara River. Mr. Adkin, a 

 series of Cujndo minima taken last year at Eastbourne, and showing an unusual 

 amount of blue in the (Js. Mr. South, a long series of very varied specimens of 

 Oelechia populAla taken on birch trunks at Oxshott on August 20th, 1904. He 

 also showed a hybrid between Anfhrocera {Zygasna) filipendulm ? , and A. trifoUi $ , 

 and read notes on the exhibit. Mr. Edwards, two (? s of Papilio blumei from Celebes, 

 Mr. Priske,an example of Calosoma sycophanta recently picked up in Kew Gardens. 

 Dr. Chapman, a long series of bred Hastula {Dichelia) hyerana and its dark var. 

 marginala, a Tortrix from the South of France, together with details of its life- 

 history, including larvae in each instar, pupae cases, stems of Asphodel showing the 

 ravages, photographs of ova, microscopical slides showing tubercles, &c., and read a 

 paper on the exhibits.— Hy. J. Tuenee, Hon. Secretary. 



