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Mr. P. Coulsden, of Stoke Newington, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Aslidowii exhibited a bred series of Spilosoma mendica from the New 

 Forest, one 9 having the sjwts enlarged and witli a tendency lo coalesce into 

 transverse fasciae. Mr. Biickstone, a specimen of Bithys querciti var. bella, 

 taken at Oxshott, July 24th. 1908. Mr. Joy, a livins; larva of Hipparchia semele, 

 pointing out its protective habit of resting among dry bases of grass stems. Mr. 

 Newman, living larvae of Dri/as paphia, Argynnis adippe, and A. aglaia, and a 

 very large example of Chri/sophanns di-ipar. 



Thursday, May 27th, 1909.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Ramsey, of Kew, was elected a Member. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited two very extreme forms of Pararge segeria, in which 

 the fulvous areas were much enlarged. They were taken at Amelie-les-Bains. 

 Mr. Evans and \ir. Carr, living specimens of Cucullia chamom'dlx from South-East 

 London. Mr. Smith, a melanic spt^cimen of var. haggarti of Tsenio'ampa puliierit- 

 lenia (eruda) taken at Dover in April. Mr. Edwards, larvae of the stag-beetle 

 CLucnnus cerium) found in some rotting wooden palings on Shooter's Hill. Mr. 

 Newman, an unusually extreme melanic ? of S/iilosoma fu/igino.ta bred from 

 SheflSeld. Mr. Sich, a peculiar aberration in the scaling of Eiipithecia castigata. 

 Mr. West (Greenwich), specimens of the local Coccincllid Halyzia \{\-guttata taken 

 in the New Forest by Mr. Ashhy and himself, and a series of Caisida fastuona 

 taken in some numbers by Mr. H. J. Turner, at Box Hill, on Inula conyza. 

 Mr. Lucas read a paper entitled, "The Scotch Fir {Plnnx syloesiris)," and illus- 

 trated his notes with a large number of lantern slides made from his own photo- 

 graphs, with a few slides of microscopical details by Mr. F. Noad-Clark. — 

 Ht. J. TuENEE, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, June 2nd, 1909. — 

 Dr. F. A. DiXEY, M.A , M.D , President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Frank Price Jepson, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Thanet Lodge, 

 Bromley, Kent ; Mr. Ernest Charles Chubb, of the Rhodesia Museum, Buluwayo, 

 South Africa; Mr. John F. .Musham, of 53, Brook Street, Selby, Yorks. ; and 

 Mr. Oscar Cecil Silverlock, of " AUington," Burbage Road, Herne flill, S.E. ; were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Selwyn Image exhibited an example of the North American sawfly, Sirex 

 caudatus, Cresson, bred from a larva found at Highbury in a piece of wood, together 

 with photographs of the larva and its galleries by Mr. Hugh Main. The Rev. G. 

 Wheeler, a series of .inthocharis tages var. belleziua from Aix-en-Provence taken 

 this year, and of A. belia from the South of France for comparison ; also a series 

 of Lypxna corydon with dark under-sides— the typical form in the south— expressing 

 the view that in these regions the butterfly was not only double, but triple brooded ; 

 an observation supported by the extreme dates of its appearance in a fresh state. 

 Lord Walsingham, two set examples and pupal cases of Holocacisla rivillei, Stn., 

 called by the late Mr. Stainton " The lost Pleiad," because originally described in 

 1750, and not again found before 1870— mining leaves of the grape vine. The name 

 Eolocacista, Wlsm. and Drnt., is now proposed for a new genus, Mr. Stainton having 

 placed it in Antispila, Tr., from which it is found to differ materially in neura- 

 tion, suggesting a more probable alliance with Seliozela, H.-S. (otherwise Tinagma, 

 Stn.). Dr. T. A. Chapman, specimens of Callophrys avis, a new specie-* from the 

 South of France, first taken by him at Hyeres three years ago, and in the following 

 year, and now obtained by him this May from the Pyrenees-Orientales, and two 

 examples of Pararge xgeria from Southern France, with a typical southern speci- 



