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hellargus in sitii on under- sides of leaves of Uippocrepis comosa, with full notes 

 on the actions of the 9 in oviposition. He also showed young larvae of Celastrina 

 argiolus, and larvae, pupae, and eocoons of Nola alhulalis. Mr. Tonge, stereographs 

 of the ova of A. hellargus. Mr. West (Greenwich), Aipion curtisii, A. leevicolle, 

 A. pomonas, and A. urticarium, from Deal. Mr. Joy, specimens of Dryas paphia 

 V. valezina bred from a captured ? (41 typical <?, 2S typical ? , 13 var. valezina). 

 Mr. South, for Mr. Baxter, Luperina sp. ? from St. Anne's, and read notes on L. 

 testacea, and its forms and allies, and also an interesting series of Peronea varie- 

 gana and its named forms. Mr. H. Moore, a second brood (?) specimen of 

 Spilnsoma lubricipeda from Deptford, September 18th, and two instances of MuUer- 

 ian Mimicry, Heliconius telesiphe and Colsenis telesiphe, and Victorina steneles and 

 Metamorpha dido, {rom S. America. Mr. F. Noad Clark read a paper " A Few Stray 

 Notes on Ticks," and showed a large number of very admirable lantern slides. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, October 20th, 1909.— 

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



Mr. Alfred Newstead, of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, was elected Fellow 

 of the Society. 



The Secretary announced that Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker and Dr. Malcolm Burr 

 had been elected members of the Council in the place of Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, 

 and Mr. E.. Shelford, resigned. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited series of butterflies collected by him at Budapest 

 and Herculesbad during the past summer. The Rev. G. Wheeler brought a series 

 of butterflies, a oolleclion made by him this year in Central Italy. They included 

 a very fine aberration of Melanargia galafea, the left upper-wing almost entirely 

 black, the right side much clouded ; and examples of Agriades thetis {hellargus) 

 var. polonus, Zell., from Assisi. Mr. J. W. Tutt gave instances of the occurrence of 

 var. polonus, stating that he had himself found it at Cuxton, Kent, where it flew 

 in company with A. thetis, and is undoubtedly a hybrid between that species and 

 A. corydon, the genitalia being similar, and the food plants identical. Mr. G. 

 Talbot, a remarkable new Lycaenid butterfly from the Cameroons — now in the 

 collection of Mr. W. J. Adams — probably constituting a new genus ; the neuration 

 most resembles that of the genus Aslauga, Kirby, but differs chiefly in the place of 

 origin of the sub-costal nervures of the fore-wing, and the deeply excised inner 

 margin of the hind-wing. Mr. J. W. Tutt, examples of Spilosoma mendica var., 

 bred by Dr. Chapman, from ova found at Hy^res, the females mostly normal, 

 but some with a well-defined black border round both wings. Mr. W. J. Kaye, 

 series of the two species of Heliconius — H. chestertonii and H. weymeri from 

 Western Colombia to illustrate the colour variation of the group. The series of H. 

 weymeri included beautiful transitional forms to the aberration gmtavi in which all 

 trace of the fore-wing markings had vanished. He thought it probable that there 

 was some common influence at work to produce a black fore-wing as this phenome- 

 non was found in several other species of Heliconius from Colombia, particularly in 



