188 [August, 



Entomological Society of London: June 4th, 1902.— The Eev. Canon 

 Fowleb, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Stanley W. Kemp, of 80, Oxford Gardens, Notting Hill, W., was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn exhibited a recently-emerged male specimen of 

 Lampides beeticus taken at Winchester in September 1899, and two varieties of 

 Lycrena Icarus. Mr. C. P. Pickett, one asymmetrical male aud two females of 

 Dilina tilice, and a series of the same insect showing great variation of colour and 

 marking, bred during May, 1902. Mr. F. Merrifield, enlarged photographs of 

 larva? of Hygrochroa syringaria, also photographs of the dark brown bronzy pupa 

 of this species, in its hammock of open network of silk, very slight, but exceedingly 

 strong, from the bottom of which the larval skin is projected, not shortened and 

 compressed, but pushed through the network, and hanging down like a long tail, so 

 as apparently to attain the same end as in the larval stages, the disguising of its 

 real nature ; it looks very like an ordinary pupa. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 a lantern slide showing the perfect protective resemblance of Hybemia 

 leucophmaria to the oak trunk upon which it rested. Mr. A. Bacot, hybrid larva? 

 resulting from a pairing between a male Malacosoma neustria and a female M. 

 castrensis, also larvre of M. neustria and reputed larvae of M. franconica for com- 

 parison. He said that this year's brood of hybrid larva? had separated into two 

 batches, the " Forwards " being now nearly full fed, and from one and a half to two 

 and a half inches in length. The " Laggards " were not yet half-grown, being only 

 half to three-quarters of an inch long, in this respect exactly following last year's 

 brood resulting from a similar cross, in which case the "Forwards" produced only 

 female specimens, while the " Laggards " produced only males. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., read a paper on " The Butterflies of Chile," and 

 exhibited a selection of the specimens he bad taken during December, January and 

 February in that country. He pointed out that the number of species of butter- 

 flies found in Chile was extremely small considering the large area, varied physical 

 and meteorological conditions and rich flora of the country. The endemic species of 

 Satyridce and Hesperidce constituted about two-thirds of the whole butterfly fauna, 

 NymphaUdce and Lycmnidce being very few in numbers. Some butterflies of 

 Holarctic types, such as Colias Vautieri, had an extremely wide range and extended 

 with little valuation right down to the Straits of Magellan. Among the most 

 remarkable species which he showed was the unique Satyrid, Argyrophorus argenteus, 

 the upper-side of which is of a brilliant metallic silver colour, nothing similar 

 existing in the whole family. This flies on open grassy hillsides, whilst in the 

 forests close by a Hesperid, Cyelopides puelmte, has its wings on the under-side 

 entirely of a metallic golden colour, this also being unique among the Hesperidee. 

 Mr. S. L. Hinde read a paper, illustrated by lantern slides, upon "The Protective 

 Resemblance to flowers borne by an African Homopterous insect, Flata nigrocincta, 

 Walker." He said that " the cluster of insects grouped to resemble a flower 

 spike," which forms the frontispiece of Professor J. W. Gregory's " Great Rift 

 Valley," had attracted some criticism, and that as he was familiar with the insect 

 figured, and with its larva, in a wild state, it seemed desirable to publish the 

 evidence. In the plate the insects are collected on the vertical stem, the green 

 individuals uppermost considerably smaller than the red beneath, like the unopened 



