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Saturniids, etc. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, two fine Saturniids from 

 Nairobi. S. Tyrol, rhopalocera. — Mr. Sich, Rhiopalocera from the 

 S. Tyrol, P. machaon, P. podoliriiis, Lihythea celtis, Scolitantiiles orion, 

 Glaurnpsi/che iolas, etc., and read a paper entitled " Sprina; in the 

 South Tyrol." .^[aij 22;n/. — Epinephele .jurtina. — Messrs. Edwards, 

 West (Ashtead) and Carr, pale blotched examples of KpinepJiele jurtina : 

 Mr. Adkin, a series from various British localities some near var. 

 hispaUa and one ab. aplendida : Mr. Gibbs, a series from Algeria 

 Corsica, Balkans, Vosges, Jura, etc., including var. hispnlla, var. 

 fortunata, var. tanrlca, etc., and short series of other species of the 

 genus, }'j. janiroiden, E. ida, K. panpha'e, E. tithnnus, with many vars. 

 and aberrations ; Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a series from Portugal, Spain, 

 Pyrenees, Teneriffe, Hyeres, Corsica, Algeria, Crete, Greece, Turkey, 

 Switzerland (many places), Niederwald, Juras, French Alps, etc. 

 Colour photographs. — Mr. Main, colour photographs of Tephrosia 

 crepiiscidaria, taken by himself. L. carpinata with green flush. — Mr. 

 Tonge, bred series of LnbophDia carpinata from Tilgate Forest ; two 

 specimens were distinctly green tinged. Paper. — Mr. Turner read a 

 paper entitled " One of our common butterflies, Epinephele jurtina," 

 showing the growth of our knowledge of the species from the time of 

 Linnfeus, 1758, and the consequent growth of the nomenclature. — 

 June 12f/i.— Infested tobacco. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited tobacco 

 leaves that were much infested by a species of beetle, which was 

 afterwards identified as Anohium paniceuin. The tobacco came 

 recently from Turkey. A new Hemipteron, Psylla albipes. — Mr. 

 West (Greenwich), a series of the new Hemipteron, Psi/lla albipes 

 discovered by him on white-beam tree. Galls on blackthorn. — Mr. 

 Coxhead, blackthorn leaves with galls of the Dipteron, Cecidoniyia 

 pruni, from Shooter's Hill. Aberration of A. grossulariata. — Mr. 

 Cowham, an aberration of Abraxas (jrossulariata with the black 

 markings on the forewings coalesced to a wide band suppressing the 

 usual yellow markings. Stag-beetle larv^. — Mr. H. Moore, larvae 

 of the stag-beetle, Lucanus cervus from Lewisham. Rare beetles. — 

 Mr. Blenkarn, a series of Bruchits pisi, a Coleopteron found by Mr. 

 Main in split-peas in a Woodford shop, and a pair of the rare 

 PterosticJnis pariunpunctatus taken at Chopwell, Northumberland, in 

 May, 1912. Reports.- — Several reports were made of the occurrence 

 of Cnlias ediisa, Pyrameis atalanta, and P. cardiii. 



Entomological Society of London. — ]\Jarcti Idtli, 1913. — Messrs. 

 Thomas Alfred Coward, F.Z.S., Brentwood, Bowdon, Cheshire ; Wm. 

 H. Edwards, Natural History Dept., Birmingham Museum ; Lewis 

 Gough, Ph.D., Entomologist to the Govt, of Egypt, Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Cairo ; John Hewitt, B.A., Director of the Albany Museum, Grahams- 

 town, South Africa; Carlos E. Porter, C.M.Z.S., Professor of Zoology, 

 Agricultural Institute, Santiago, Chile ; and Gilbert Storey, Entomo- 

 logical Research Commission, Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, S.W., were elected Fellows of the Societ3^ Coniopteryx 

 Larvae. — Mr. C. B. Williams exhibited two larvae of Coniopteryx tinei- 

 formis, eight of which were beaten from pines at Oxshott on the 16th 

 inst. The genus Eciton and Myrmecophiles. — Mr. Donisthorpe 

 exhibited various species of ants of the Genus Eciton, the " Wander 

 Ants," and gave some account of their interesting habits. He remarked 



