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forms -wlncli lie eNliibitcd, niid (4) folom* aberration caused bv applied 

 chemical action. A nuiuLer of members took part in the discussion and 

 exhibited series or special forms. 



Mr. Curwen exhibited Sir ex (//'[/as from Twickenham. Mr. B. S. Williams, 

 a series of Chavdeas (jraminis with variable gTound-colour and a specimen 

 with coalesced marking. Mr. Tonge, a series of Oijorabia atitumnaria from 

 Pi-estcu and Langridge Fell, including a strongly melanic form. Mr. Frohawk, 

 a small living larva of i\'o??rc^r/« typhae already fourteen months old; a series 

 of Lime7iitis sihylla showing gradation from type form to ab. nif/rinn ; Druns 

 paphia with somewhat radiated hind wings, and others showing coalescence 

 and suffusion of spots; and Aryynnis cydip/ie, a, series showing gradation in 

 exten.-ion of the spotting and one with only three spots in the roAV on the 

 hind wing, 



November }3th, 1919.— The President in the Chair. 



The decease of Mr. \V. J. A.'^lulown was announced. 



On belialf of the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows a series of larval cases of various 

 species of British Fsyvhides were presented to the Society's collections. Series 

 of Noctua xnntJioyrapha were exhibited b}^ Messrs. R. Adkin, A. E. Tonge, 

 B. S. Williams. Hy. J. Turner, etc., and a discussion took place. Mr. H. J. 

 Tinner gave a list of the named forms with short descriptions, and mentioned 

 the characters which were available for variation, as the ground-colour, the 

 stigmata, the transverse markings, and the scale textuies. Several meu'bers 

 remarked on the extremely large numbers of this species which came to stigar. 

 jMr. Newman exhibited a very dark-banded large form of C'irrhuedia xerampt- 

 Ihia from Sligo, and males of Ennomos anyularia from Regent's Park with 

 considerable contrast between the light central band and the dark outer 

 marginal area. — IIy. J. TriiNEii, Hon. Editor of Froceedinys, 



Entomological Socikty of London: Wednesday, October 'isf, 1919. — 

 The Rev. George VVhkeli'R, M.A., F.Z.S., Secretary, in the Cliair. 



Mr. Cyril F. Carpenter, Sunrise, 140 Verdant Lane, Hither Green, S.E. 6; 

 Miss L. Evelyn Cheesman, Entomologit-al Dept., Zoological Societv, Regent's 

 Park, N.W. 8 ; Prof. E. Chester Crainpton, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Amherst, Mass., LT.S.A.; and Mr. Albert H. Elston, Delemout, Childers Street, 

 N, Adehdde, Australia, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



In consequence of the railway strike the attendance was very small ; there 

 were no exhibits, and it was decided to postpone the reading of the paper 

 which was to have taken place that evening. 



Wednesday, October I'iiJi, 1919. — Comm. J. J. Walker, M.A., R.X., 

 F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. .Jaganath Laxman Khare, Lecturer in Entomology, Nagpur 

 Agricidtural College, Nagpur, India; Charles Mellows, M.A., The College, 



