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Thursday, September 28th, 1911. — Tlio President m the Chair. 



Ephyra pcndularia ab. subroseata. — Mr. Kaye exhibited a long series of this 

 species, inchiding some very beantifully marked examples of the variety. 

 Hadena contigua, bred from ova. — Capt. Cardew, a beautiful series bred from 

 ova laid by a New Forest ? ; 49 imagines were obtained from 62 fertile ova. 

 " Butterflies in the Forest of Arques." — Mr. Moore read a short note on a visit 

 recently made, and exhibited a number of species he obtained. He referred to 

 the abundance of Picris napi, and the scarcity of P. rapm, in the Forest about 

 August 12tli last. Agrius convolvuli in Deptford. — Mr. Moore, the only one 

 noted by him this season. Aplecta 2yrasina (herbida), irregular feeding up. — 

 Mr. Main, a bred example, remarkable for the delicacy of its colouring. Some 

 of the larva3 were still small, some were in pupas, and this had emerged. Hadena 

 protea, Anthrocera hiiJpocrepidis {?), and teratological A. filipiendulse, — Mr. Bux- 

 ton, a long series of the first from near Tonbridge at sugar ; and of the last 

 species one specimen had the antennae short, but very thick and contorted. — 

 Ht. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London .- Wednesday, October -ith, 1911, — The 

 Rev. F. D. MoRicE, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. B. Williams, of 20, Slatey Eoad, Birkenhead, was elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. The President proposed a vote of condolence with the relatives 

 of the late Mr. Verrall, which was seconded by Prof. Poulton. A vote of con- 

 dolence witli the relatives of the late Mr. Albert Harrison was proposed by the 

 Rev. G. Wheeler, and seconded by Mr. W. J. Kaye ; and a similar vote in the 

 case of Mr. S. H. Scudder was proposed by Mr. Champion, and seconded by Prof. 

 Poulton. Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens {S S and $ 5 ) of Formica pra- 

 tensis, De G. {congerens, Nyl.), taken at Rannoch in June, also $ <$ of F. sanguinea 

 captured in the same region, a new locality for it ; and $ '^ and ^ $ of a new 

 race of Formica rufa, also from Rannoch. Mr. Bethune-Baker, a specimen of 

 Melanargia galathea, var. lugens, taken at Digne in July last. It is an entirely 

 dark brown (almost black) form, with no white marlvings, though the ordinary 

 markings are just traceable in a slightly lighter shade. Commander Walker 

 observed that a similar example had also been taken in England. Mr. Norman 

 H. Joy, a remarkable specimen of Oxytelus taken at Tresco, Scilly Isles, April, 

 1908. In many respects it is quite intermediate in character between 0. sculptus 

 and 0. laqueatvs. Marsh. It is jji^obably a species new to science, but may 

 possibly be a hybrid of these two species. He also showed Liodes stenocoryphe, 

 Joy, (? . taken by Mr. W. E. Sharp, at Forres, in 1910, as well as its near allies 

 for comparison, viz., Liodes picea. 111., taken by Mr. Tomlin and Mr. Joy at Dal- 

 whinnie, Inverness-shire, in September, when the larva was also found feeding 

 on a small underground fungus ; L. dubia, Kug., and its variovis varieties ; and L. 

 algirica. Rye, almost certainly only anotlier variety of this species. Mr; W. C. 

 Cx'awley, a mixed colony of Lasius umbratus and L. nigcr. Tiiis colony consists 



