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Entomological Society of London; IVednesdai/, Octuhcr ISffi, 1905.— 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, M D., F.Z S.. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles William Bracken, B.A. (LonrL), of 18, Wliiteforrl Road, 

 Mannamead, Plymouth, and Mr. William Hubert ^t. Q.uentin, of Scampton Hall, 

 Rillington, Vork, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. H. Rowland- Hrown exhibited series of Erehias taken this year in the 

 Pyrenees, including Erebia lefebnrel, with the varieties pi/renea, Obth., from 

 Mount Canigou, E. Pyrenees, and var. intermedia, Obth., from Gravarnie. He 

 also showed for comparison E. glacialis var. nichuUi from Campiglio, which at 

 one time was supposed to be identical with lef^hrrei, th'3ii eonsidji'd to be the 

 Pyrenean form of E. melas. With them were also shown specimens of E. (forgone 

 and E. gorge from the Lac de Grande, Cautarets, and fron G-avarnie, with short 

 series of Lgcaena orbitulux from the Central .-V-lps, L. orhitiilu^ var. oherfhuri, 

 Stgr., L. pt/renaica and L. pheretes from tho Brenner and Cortina districts. It 

 was remarkable that as between the species ennmLM*ated there seemed to be a 

 greater superficial afEnity between pijrenaica and pheretes (not reported from the 

 Pyrenees) than between pijrenaica and orbittilu^. Mr. R. C. Bedwoll, eight speci- 

 mens of Apion lipvigatum, Kirby, one of the rarest indigenous Apions, found on 

 August 31st, sheltering under plants of Echiiim vulgare in the Lowestoft district. 

 Mr. R. Shelford, a Lygseid bug, the fore limbs of which were well adapted to 

 fossorial habits and comparable with those of the mole cricket ; a Brentliid beetle 

 which had a deep channel along the dorsal part of tlie protiiorax, and occupied by 

 Acari ; and an Anthribid beetle with a crescentic sulcus also for the reception of 

 Acari on the prothoras. All I he specimens were from British North Borneo. 

 Mr. C. J. Galian, on behalf of Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, a living example of Phane- 

 roptera qttadripunctata, which species had been found in some numbers in a 

 vinery near Chester. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a long variable series of Heliconius numata 

 from the Potaro River, British Guiana, clearly proving that these very variable 

 forms were only aberrations, and were not sub-species, at least in this locality, as 

 had been described by Riffarth, Weymer, and others. He also showed a pair of 

 Heliconius silvana with two rare aberrations, in wliich the black area of the hind- 

 wing was divided ; and examples of Heliconius vetustus, it being remarkable that 

 although similar to numata it was nevertheless a distinct species. Mr. A. H. Jones, 

 a collection of Lepidoptera made by him in Majorca during the first half of last 

 June, and remarked upon the almost total absence of Lepidopterous life in the 

 island. Only thirteen species of butterflies were observed, all of the commonest 

 kinds and without any indication of variation, with about six species of moths (all 

 occurring in Britain), including Agrotis saucia, Acidalia ochrata, and A. degener- 

 aria, the latter, interesting in point of colour, being much redder ; also Melanargia 

 lachesis, var. canigulensis from Vernet-les- Bains, showing on the under-side in the 

 males a strong resemblance to M. galathea, also Melitxa aurinia var. iberica, 

 Obth., froni Montserrat, near Barcelona, and a melanic specimen of Erebia stygne, 

 taken by Mr. R. S. Standen last June at St. Martin de Canigou, Vernet-les-Bains. 

 Mr. Frank P. Dodd communicated a paper " On a parasitic Lepidopteron from 

 Queensland, Australia." Commander J. J. Walker read a paper by Mr. E. G. R. 



