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Mr. Dods, living larvce of Saniia cecropia, a large American silk-prodiicing 

 Satvirniid. Mr. Carr, the local beetle, Cicindela sylvatica, from Oxshott. Mr. 

 Edwards, a box containing several species of the genvis Libythea, and con- 

 tributd notes on the singular distribution of the few known species. 



Thursday, August 24f7i. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Jiiger exhibited the following forms and aberrations of British Lepi- 

 doptera : very dark Argynnis aglaia, Pieris napi, and Vemisia caynbrica, Rumicia 

 pMppas, with wedge-shaped spots replacing the band ; a very silvery :? of Celas- 

 trina argiolus ; two very curious dark forms of Acidalia marginepundata, and a 

 very aberrantly marked form of Hydriomena niherata. Mr. S. E. Ashby, series 

 of Balaninus nucu^n and Phytodecta pallida, taken during the Field Meeting at 

 Clandon, Jvily loth. Mr. Turner, forms of Papilio podalirius, including var. 

 /eisthamelii, ab. ornata, and two examples partaking of the ab. undecemlineatus 

 and ab. nig^-esce^is forms. Mr Tiirner contributed a note on the habits of the 

 thread worm, one of which liad been recently exhibited, found in the larva of 

 a Cucullia. Mr. K. Adkin, forms of Hesperia nialvx closely approaching v. taras, 

 from Sussex, and an intermediate example of Aplecta occulta, from Rannoch, 

 where the species is usually very dark. Mr. Morford, Colias hyale, and a 

 second brood specimen of Nisoniades tages, from Mickleham, August 20th. 

 Mr. "West (Greenwich), two local Diptera, Ceroxys pictus and C. omissus, from 

 Great Yarmouth salt-marshes. Mr. West (Ashstead), the rare burying beetle, 

 Necrophorus interruptus. Mr. Main, a portion of wasp comb, and described the 

 feeding of the larva. Mr. Edwards, Papilio codrus, and allied species. Mr. 

 Blenkarn, several living stick-insects, Dixippus morosus, from India. Mr. Kaye, 

 a specimen of the extremely rare Sphingid, Pholus typhon, from Mexico. Dr. 

 Chapman, living larva^ of the high-level Lycsenids, Latiorina orbitulus, Vacci- 

 niana optilete, and Albula pheretes, from the Alps. — Ht. J. Turner, Hon. 

 Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, June 1th, 1911. — The 

 Rev. F. D. MoRiCE, M.A., President, in the Chaii-. 



The Secretary observed that he had exceeded his instructions with regard 

 to the Memorial passed at the last meeting on the South Kensington site, and 

 had sent it to the Times, where it liad appeared, and to the principal Press 

 Associations, as well as (at the request of Mr. Waterhouse) to the Director of 

 the Natural History Museiun. 



Commander J.J. Walker exhibited specimens of Barypithes pellucidus. Boh., 

 from Oxford, Enfield, and Tavistock respectively, and for comparison, B. dupli- 

 catus. Keys, from the Blean Woods and Birchington, Kent. Also a series of 

 specimens illustrating the life-history of Cyclotorna, Meyrick, a genus of 

 Myrmecophilovis Lepidoptera, from Queensland, sent by Mr. F. P. Dodd with 

 his paper on the insects subsequently read. Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited live 

 specimens of Antennophorus uhlmanni, Haller, on the ^ $ from a nest of Lasius 

 umbratus at Woking. Only two specimens have been taken before in Britain, 

 by Michael, in an ants' nest at the Land's End. Also Uropoda philoctena fastened 



