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" A Life-cycle of Acidalia marg inepunctata." A discussion ensued, when it was 

 pointed out that the genus certainly required subdivision, both on account of di- 

 versity of structure and distinction of habit. — Hy. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: February 5/7*, 1902. — The Rev. 

 Canon W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Norman Joy, of Bradfield, near Reading, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Professor Poulton exhibited with lantern a series of slides belonging to 

 Professor Meldola, made from actual specimens by the three-colour process, illus- 

 trative of mimicry in British and exotic Lepidoplera and Hymenoptera. lie also 

 exhibited the several specimens from which the lantern-slides had been prepared. 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett, a series of the perfect insect of Olottttla fusca, Hpsn., 

 together with ears of maize (locally called mealies), showing the damage done by 

 the well-grown larva of the species, which lives in the first place in the stem, eating 

 the pith from the ground, and afterwards attacking the cobs, and eating from the 

 inside into the bases of the unripe grains which then change colour and shrivel up. 

 He also exhibited: Gynaniza maia, <? , Walk., and a drawing of the larva; 

 Nudaurelia menippe, <J,Feld., and drawing of larvae ; Bombycomorpha bifascia, 

 Hpsn., circlet of eggs, cocoons and figure of larva ; Phissana Jlava, Feld., food, 

 cocoon and figure of larva ; Gonometa postica, g and 9 , Walk., cocoon (poison- 

 ous), and c? and 9 larva figures ; Henucha smilax, $ and ? , Feld., pupa, cocoon, 

 figures of larva, and an enlarged segment to show markings ; Metarctia rufescens, 

 Walk., and figure of larva ; Tceniopyqa sylvana, Walk., and figures of larva ; Riyema 

 omata, Walk., and figures of larva — all the foregoing specimens and figures being 

 received from Miss Frances Barrett, Bnntingville, Transkei, South Africa. Mr. 

 W. L. Distant, two specimens of Coleoptera which had reached him alive from 

 the Transvaal — one Anlhla thoracica, Thumb., now deceased, the other Brachycerus 

 granosus, Gyll., still living. These insects had been sent by Mr. Robert Service, of 

 Dumfries, who received them trout Sergfc. Peter Dunn, of the volunteer company of 

 the Scottish Borderers. The genus Anthia extends to the Southern Palamrctic 

 region, and there seems little doubt that these species could be easily acclimatized 

 there. All they require at home is the run of a good palm or orchid-house. Mr. 

 R. Adkin, a series of Acidalia aversata. The parent moth (a banded female, 

 the male parent not being known) was taken at Lewisham in June, 1900. Of the 

 resulting larvas about one half fed-up rapidly, and produced imagines in the autumn 

 of the same year — a very unusual circumstance ; the remainder hibernated and 

 produced imagines in June of the following year, thus occupying the normal time 

 in completing their metamorphoses. The proportion of individuals following the 

 female parent in the two portions of tbe brood was almost equal, the percentages 

 being approximately 53 banded in the autumnal emergence as against 58 in the 

 spring, but in point of sex the disparity was great, over 05°/ o of the autumn moths 

 being males as against fully 7-°/ females in the spring portion. Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, long series of Leptura utragulata Germ., and Strangalia pubescens, 

 Fabr., from the pine-forests of Aragon and Castile, showing the great variation 

 in colour of the two species in these districts, whereas the allied forms 



