ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF VARIETIES. ;23 



In conclusion it must be pointed out that these 151 species taken 

 in Tiree cannot of course be considered as in any sense an exhaustive 

 list of its Coleopterous inhabitants. Mr. Donisthorpe's visit was too 

 early to secure any representatives of the many species which would 

 no doubt occur there later in the summer — indeed only about 25 out 

 of the 151 are phytophagous species. In Tiree as anywhere else only 

 continuous residence and sedulous collecting can effect anything like 

 an exhaustive faunal catalogue, but Mr. Donisthorpe must at least be 

 congratulated on having made very full use of his opportunities, and 

 not neglected to record any species because it was " common." 



The Annual Exhibition of Varieties held by the South London 

 Entomological and Natural History Society, 1912. 



By Hy. J. TURNER, F.E.S. 

 For many years this Society each November has held a special 

 meeting for the exhibition of notable varieties and series obtained 

 during the past collecting season. Those who are not members of the 

 Society are invited to take part in the meeting, and a delightful evening 

 is usually passed by a large number of entomologists. The present 

 gathering, held on November 28th last was, in no way inferior to its 

 predecessors, considerably more than a hundred signed the attendance 

 book and quite forty of these took an active part in the exhibition. 

 Mr. A. E. Tonge, the President for the year, took the chair. Mr. B. 

 H. Smith showed the long series of 80 Pkryxan livornica obtained by 

 him, mainly at light, in South Cornwall during the latter half of May. 

 He noted that they were probably the offspring of the autumn 

 specimens of 1911, of which he had obtained and previously exhibited 

 several examples. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited long and varied series of 

 the Anthrocerids, A. Umicerae, A. trifolii and A. nlipendnlae, and called 

 attention to the fact that all three series well illustrated the gradation 

 of colouring from the normal deep red, through various paler red, 

 orange and yellow by almost imperceptible steps to the palest yellow. 

 The exhibit also contained a black form of A. trifolii, and various 

 phases of the confluent-spotted forms. Mr. A. Sich exhibited two very 

 rare species of the genus Coleophora, C. t.ri(/e)iiineUa first announced in 

 England in 1906, and C. auramella obtained at E. Hoathly in Sussex, 

 in May. The former species was first discovered by him in this 

 country, and the latter had only been taken previously by Dr. Wood in 

 Herefordshire. Mr. A. E. Tonge showed local forms of Bryophila 

 ]h'iia from Deal, Bradford and Eastbourne; a pair of B. mnralis 

 from Deal, with var. impar, from the same place; the Polia chi 

 taken by him at Winslow Bucks ; Leticania albipuncta, and 

 Noctna stigniatica taken at sugar at Deal ; Heliothis manfinatns taken 

 at Reigate attracted by Silene flowers ; a series of Satnrnia pavonia 

 assembled in the New Forest on April 25th ; the early emergencies 

 Phi(ialia peduria December 29th, 1911, at Reigate, and Xylocampa 

 areola on January 5th, at Eastbourne, etc. Mr. Edwin Sharp showed 

 an extensive and varied series of the light Sussex forms of Dianthoecia 

 carpophaga, bred from wild pupae ; a,hevva,tions oi Brenthis eKphrosyne, 

 and dark and red forms of Nonagria neurica. Captain Cardew 

 exhibited an example of Celastrina argioltis from Oxshoti with the 

 underside markings extensively obsolete, closely approaching ab. argy- 



