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Barmouth ; he called attention to the flat shape of the CoelopcB, and explained that 

 they lived amongst the stones on the beach, and dodged under them when sought 

 for, so as to make it difficult to obtain them. Mr. P. W. Abbott, a pair of Sphinx 

 pinastri from Sussex, where he said it had been taken in some numbers recently. 

 Mr. A. H. Martineau, a specimen of Sphinx convolvuli from Solihull. Mr. W. 

 Harrison, a series of Erebia blandina from Witherslade Moss, and Macroglossa 

 fuciformis from the New Forest ; also larvae of Liparis aurifl.ua in the small 

 white cocoons in which they undergo hibernation, found under the bark of a 

 willow in Hanbury Park. Mr. J. W. Smallwood, a number oi Lepidoptera taken at 

 Willington in South Derbyshire, including Acronycta alni, Cosmia affinis, Cirrhoedia 

 xerampelina, Eupithecia valerianata, Anticlea rubidata, and Trichiiira cratcsgi. 

 Mr. C. J. Wainwright, Asteroscopus sphinx from Hanbury Park, and a fine dark 

 specimen of Hibernia defoliarla from the same place, with an olive shade on its 

 wings. Mr. R. W. Fitzgerald, a number of insects collected by him at Dursley, 

 near Gloucester, on the south-west slopes of the Cotswolds, including amongst others 

 Xanthia aurago (common, but worn when taken), a series of Xylocampa lithorhiza 

 from sugar, a long and varied series of Scopelosoma satellitia, Orthosia macilenta, 

 Himera pennaria (one from a dug pupa), and a specimen of Camptogramma bilineata, 

 the black markings of which had increased so as to form a well defined band on each 

 wing. Mr. Wainwright, a list of captures made by Mr. C. A. E. Rodgers at Malvern 

 Wells, and remarked upon a resemblance between that insect fauna and that of 

 Dursley on the opposite side of the Severn Valley ; amongst other insects taken on 

 both sides being Procris Oeryon, Xanthia aurago, Orthosia macilenta, &c. ; both 

 Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Fitzgerald had taken O. macilenta commonly on the hills and 

 no 0. lota, while Mr. Rodgers said that on the plains below Malvern the Rev. E. C. 

 Dobree Fox got O. lota commonly and no O. malicenta ; Mr. R. W. Fitzgerald, 

 however, said that he had seen larvae of O. lota on the hills. — CoLBBAN J. Wain- 

 weight, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: Sixty-thibd Annual Meeting, 

 January 15lh, 1896. — Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



After the Balance Sheet had been read by Mr. A. H. Jones, one of the 

 Auditors, Mr. Goss read the Report of the Council. It was announced that the 

 following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council for 1896 : — President, 

 Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, 

 Mr. Herbert Goss and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A. ; Librarian, Mr. Geo. C. 

 Champion ; and as other Members of the Council, Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, M.A. ; 

 Mr. G. F. Hampson, B.A. ; Prof. Edwd. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. ; Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. ; Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. ; Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S. ; 

 The Lord Walsingham, LL.D., F.R.S. ; and Colonel J. W. Yerbury, R.A. It was 

 announced that the President would appoint Dr. D. Sharp, Mr. Roland Trimen, 

 and Mr. W. F. H. Blandford Vice-Presidents for the Session 1896—1897. Prof. 

 Meldola then delivered an address. A vote of thanks to the Officers having been 

 proposed, seconded, and carried, Prof. Meldola and Mr. McLachlan replied, and the 

 proceedings terminated. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



