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Thr South Lonpon Entomological and Natltral History Society : 

 April Vlth, 1917.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited species of the trenera Nectaria and Hestin, highly 

 protected butterflies, and referred to their numerons mimics. Mr. B. W. 

 Adkin, numerous aberrations of Agriades thetis and A. con'don taken at East- 

 bourne in Sept. 191 G. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a post-card illustrating a Fowling; 

 Scene from the wall of a tomb at Thebes, B.C. loOO, on which were portrayed 

 five figures of butterflies ; and a photograph of the cases of the more obtainable 

 British Psychids, and read notes on the characteristics and life-histories of the 

 species. Mr. H. Moiire, a number of species of Nearctio and Neotropical 

 Sphinfiidae. Mr. Frohawk, tlie two se?:es of Eiigonia 2wIi/cJiloros and pointed 

 out that the only .secondary sexual character of distinction was the hitherto 

 unnoted fact of the males possessing considerably larger eyes. Mr. Bunuett, 

 the nymph-cases of a species of caddis-fly. Mr. Adkin read a short paper. 

 "The Weather of 19115 and the Butterflies of Eastbourne." Mr. Frohawk, a 

 letter from Tipperary, dated ISQo, describing a butterfly existing theie, which, 

 apparently, was Lhne/tifis sibilla. 



April -26(11, 1917.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, President, in the Chair. 



Exhibition of Orders other than Lepidoptera. Mr. H. Main exhibited 

 living specimens of Scarahaeus from Malta and Sicily, and specimens of the 

 oil-beetle, Melo'e, with cells containing the bees, Anthophora piiipes, on which 

 it is parasitic. Mr. K. G. Blair, (1) living gall-fl.ies, Aphilothrix radicis, and 

 the " truftle " gall from which they emerged ; (2) Psammocliares cardui, a new 

 species of Pompilid bee recently described by Dr. Perkins ; and (3), on behalf 

 of Dr. C. J. Gahan, a living specimen of the Death- Watch heei\e, Xedobium 

 tessellatum., which responded to stimulus by tapping. Mr. H. Moore, a large 

 number of insects from Demerara — ants, bees, wasps, flies, Mantids, locusts, and 

 Hemiptera, including Membracidae. Mr. Ashdowu, Swiss and N. Italian Coleo- 

 ptera, taken in 1914, including about 40 species of Longicornes. Mr, Lucas, 

 a collection of British Earwigs, and coloured enlarged drawings of the New 

 Forest Cricket [Nemobhis sylvestris) and of the Giant Earwig [Lnbidura 

 riparia). Mr. Lachlan Gibb, a case of the American " bag-worm," Thxjrido- 

 pteryx ephemeraeforniis, a. large Psychid. Mr. West (Greenwich), his collection 

 of British Homoptera and di-awers from the Society's reference collections of 

 C'oleoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and Orthoptera. Mr. Turner, 

 various species of British Ichneumonidae, British Hymenoptera, and European 

 Oileopiera. Mr. Adkin, a ci>py of Fuessly's ' Archives de I'Histoire des 

 Insectes,' 1794 (French translation). Mr. Edwards, boxes of Exotic CoJeoptera, 

 Cicitdidae, and Hemiptera. — Hy. J. Turner, Hvn. Report. Secretary. 



