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rules : — i. The London District is understood to mean a circle of about 

 lo miles from Charing Cross, that is, lying within the following 

 points : — Enfield Station, Ponder's End Station, Chingford Station, 

 Woodford Bridge, the point where the main road to Romford crosses 

 the G.E.R. at Brookham (half way between Ilford and Chadwell Heath), 

 Ripple Castle, Abbey Wood Station, Pope Street Station, Chislehurst 

 Station, West Wickham Station, South Croydon Station, Carshalton 

 Station, Sutton Station, Worcester Park Station, Kingston Bridge, 

 Twickenham Station, Hounslow Station, Southall Station, Harrow 

 Station (L. and N.W.R.), Edgware Station (G.N.R.), New Barnet 

 Station. Districts included in this area : Epping Forest south of 

 Chingford, Plumstead Marshes, Shooter's Hill Wood, Shirley Common, 

 Richmond Park, Wimbledon Common, etc. Districts outside the area; 

 Epping Forest north of Chingford, including Bury and Hawk Woods, 

 Lords' Bushes, Abbey Wood, Chislehurst Common, West Wickham, 

 Stanmore Common, Hadleigh Wood, etc. 2. The locality and date 

 should be stated where possible, but no records previous to ist January, 

 1880, should be given. 3. The generic and specific names should be 

 stated in all cases. Lists may be sent in to : — 



Mr. J. A. Clark, 48, Broadway, London Fields, N.E. (Birds.) 

 Dr. F. J. Buckell, 32, Canonbury Square, N. (Lepidoptera.) 

 Mr. H. Heasler, 17, Danby Street, Bellenden Road, Peckham, S.E. 



(Coleoptera.) 

 Thursday, March -x^rd, 1892. — Exhibits : — Lepidoptera : — Mr. Battley, 

 typical forms of Pieris rapce and P. napi, and an intermediate form 

 taken at Cheshunt. The underside of this insect was very slightly 

 "veined," though the upper surface presented the characteristics of 

 P. napi. Mr. Clark, preserved larvae of Orgyia gonosiigma, Dasy- 

 chira fascelina and Lasiocampa quercifolia ; the latter being taken 

 on the Hackney marshes last year. Mr. Tremayne, Hybernia rupi- 

 capraria and Scopelosoma sateUitia from Epping Forest. Mr. Bayne, 

 series of Cheimatobia briimata and C. boreaia, also a specimen of 

 Ticniocampa populeti var. intermedia, from Norfolk. Mr. Riches, 

 series of Ardia lubricipeda and A. menthastri, also a dark var. of 

 Ennomos angularia, and a suffused form of Melanippe fluctuata. Mr. 

 Southey, a series of Hime^-a pennaria from the Highgate Woods, in- 

 cluding a very small female. Mr. Milton, Deilephila galii, said to 

 have been taken at Swanley, last year ; also Endromis versicolor, 

 Moma orion and Pliisia festticcz. 



Coleoptera : — Mr. Burrows, Loricera pidicornis, Droniius quadrimac- 

 ulatus, D. nieridionalis, Ste?iiis bimaculatiiin. Mr. Lewcock, a number 

 of Coccinellidce, on behalf of himself, Mr. Sharp, of Chester, Rev. W. 

 F. Johnson (Armagh), and Mr. H. G. Cuthbert, of Dublin, Messrs. 

 Heasler, EUiman and Cripps also exhibited series of Cocciiiel/idiE to 

 illustrate the paper. Mr. Lewcock then read his paper on " British 

 Coccinellidce."'^ 



In noticing the variation of this group, Mr. Tutt remarked that 

 some species had black specimens with a red dot on each of the 

 elytra, whilst others were red and had a black dot. These dots, how- 

 ever, were not interchangeable, the black dot being constant in position 

 and spreading to form the black specimens, leaving, however, a small 

 ' An abstract of this paper will appear — Ed. 



