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he proceeded to the subject of his address, " Neuration in its bearings on 

 the Classification of Lepidoptera." Votes of thanks were then passed 

 to the retiring Officers and Council. Luperina gueenei. — Mr. Turner, 

 on behalf of Mr. Murray, of St. Anne's-on-Sea, exhibited a series of 

 LKjmrina i/tteneei taken at the above place, including the typical form, 

 the var. baxteri, and two new and very distinct forms, one of them 

 with a very pale, almost white, submarginal band, which he was 

 naming var. innrraiji, and the other several very dark melanic speci- 

 mens, which he was naming var. fimca. Second brood Polygonia 

 c-ALBUM VAR. HUTCHiNSONi. — Mr. Newman, autumn bred specimens of 

 var. hiitchinsoni of Poli/(/o)iia c-albuui, hitherto only obtained in the 

 summer brood, they were from the same $ as the yellow forms pre- 

 viously shown. 



<^ BITUAR Y. 



Gerald George Hodgson died on February 8rd, 1911, in his 51st 

 year. Some dozen years ago he had a very serious illness, and on 

 recovering, went to Queensland to recruit, and returned to England in 

 1901. Since that he has lived in Kedhill, but though active and 

 laborious, his health does not seem to have always been satisfactory. 

 Son of a Surgeon and Aurist, of Brighton, he entered the Medical 

 Profession as M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 



Dr. Hodgson was one of our more thoughtful entomologists, he 

 was very keen in the field, and always in search of variations, not for 

 the sake of valuable specimens, but to elucidate by observation in their 

 natural environment and in the cabinet, the precise value and meaning, 

 both of the variations and of the normal forms. His observations 

 were made chiefly on the butterflies of our Southern Counties, but he 

 also went further afield, having collected even in Queensland. 



Unfortunately, he published very little on his observations, but 

 two papers read before the City of London Entomological Society in 

 1908 and 1909, are worthy of much wider recognition than they are 

 likely to obtain in the Transactions of that Society. 



The first deals with " The Effect of Climatic Conditions on Sexual 

 Dimorphism," and in the volume for 1909, just published, the paper 

 is ostensibly a claim to more attention being given to the undersides 

 of butterflies, instead of so commonly chiefly to the upper. Really it 

 is an analysis of many tendencies to variation aflecting the undersides, 

 and calling attention to various points somewhat overlooked by our 

 usual authorities on this subject, such as that the portion of the 

 under surface of the upperwing hidden during rest and sleep, being 

 less restrained by the necessities for a protective facies, is much more 

 variable than the rest of the wing. 



Dr. Hodgson will be remembered at the City of London and South 

 London Societies for his exhibits of blues, of bred M. aurinia from 

 many localities, and of black forms of Anthrocera trifoUi. We learn 

 that his collection of "blues" illustrating parallel variation in allied 

 species may be placed in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). He was 

 not an entomologist only, but devoted a great deal of attention, 

 amongst other things, to the bionomics of our native orchids, espe- 

 cially in their seedling conditions. His coloured drawings, both of 

 butterflies and flowers, beyond scientific accuracy and technical pro- 

 ficiency, showed that he possessed much artistic feeling, as displayed 

 in the composition and balance of his pictures. — T. A. C. 



