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and from Inverness to show the characteristics of the two races. 

 Photograph. — Mr. Colthrup, a further series of his photographs of 

 insects at rest and of the eggs of shore birds in nature. Balkan 

 Lepidoptera. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a number of Nymphalids especially of 

 the genera Arifi/nnia and Melitaea taken by him in the Balkans in the 

 summer of 1912, including Dryaa pandnra, An/i/unisadippe ab. cleodo.ra, 

 Ixsnria latlumia, Ihentltin /lecotr, Melitaea trivia, M, athalia var. meliadiensis 

 and ab. navaiina, Neptix liirilla, Poli/t/onia eijea, etc., with (_'/in/nop/ianiis 

 alciphron and Libi/tliea celtia. Sicilian Lepidoptera. — Mr. J. Piatt 

 Barrett, a number of species of Sicilian butterflies, including Mclananiia 

 japi/r/ia, M.plienma and var. plemnra, M. (jalathea and vars.Z»r(7s/, prociila 

 and Hi/racnxana and discussed other allied forms; he also showed a series 

 of Knclilo'e. damone. Pupa of L. arion. — Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited the 

 pupa of Lycacna arion found by Mr. Percy Richards in 1908 in an 

 ant's nest in a frail cocoon. Aberration of E. cardamines.- — Mr. F. 

 W. Frohawk, a form of EucJiloe cardaminefi in which the discoidal spots 

 of the forewings were considerably within the orange apical area. — 

 April lOtli. S. fagaria. — Mr. Buckstone exhibited living larvn? of 

 Scodiona far/aria [hehjiaria) from Oxshott. Aekrration of hybrid 

 between Ephyras. — Mr. Newman, a remarkable aberration of a hybrid 

 between Epltyra annulata ^ and E. pendidaria $ , in which the outer 

 half of all the wings was melanic. Paper on the Balkans. — Mr. A. 

 E. Gibbs read a paper entitled "Through the Balkans with a Camera" 

 illustrating his remarks with a number of lantern-slides of views and 

 scenes in Bosnia and Hercegovina where he made a collecting tour in 

 1912. — April 2,it}i. — Special Exhibition.- — The evening was devoted 

 to a Special Exhibition of specimens of Orders other than Lepidoptera 

 and was a most successful meeting. Books, etc. — Mr. R. Adkin, on 

 behalf of Mr, R. Armstrong Adkin, exhibited series of the shells of the 

 Molluscs Helix hortensis and H. neninralis in considerable variety and a 

 long series of H. aspersa from the chalk near Eastbourne. He also 

 showed an original copy of A Naturalist's Calendar, 1795, being 

 extracts from Gilbert White's diaries, and a facsimile reprint of Gilbert 

 White's Elnra Selborniensis, issued by the Selborne Society in 1911. 

 Also he exhibited a spider's web and spider mounted between glass by 

 the late Mr. H. McArthur. The Society's Collections. — Mr. W. 

 West (Greenwich) placed on the tables sixteen drawers of the Society's 

 reference collections (British), viz., two of Orthoptera, presented by 

 Dr. Malcolm Burr, etc., two of Neuroptera, presented by Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas, Mr. W. J. Ashdown, etc., one of Hymenoptera and eleven of 

 Coleoptera. Mr. West also exhibited twelve drawers of his own 

 collection of British Heteroptera, Homoptera and Psyllina. New and 

 RARE Coleoptera. — Mr. E. A. Newbury, a number of new and rare 

 species of British Coleoptera including Apion selousi, Tracm/p/doens 

 digitalis, Lathrohium ripicola, Hoiiialota aguatilift, Mi/rniecopora 

 brevipes, Thinobius pallidas, Cartodere argns, Derntestes pervvianus, 

 Bledins denticollis, B. filipes, B. sacerdendiis, Ceuthorln/nchns parviilus, 

 Ijaccobiiis purpnrascens, Orthochoetes insignis, etc. Mr. Priske, varied 

 series of Helix nenioralis and H. aspersa from Seaton, Devon, and the 

 varied forms of the Coleopteron, Geotrupes mutator from Hanwell. 

 Swiss Hemiptera and Hymenoptera. — Mr. Ashdown, examples of the 

 species of Hemiptera and Hymenoptera taken by him in Switzerland, in- 



