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through abdomen, (3) having yellow band on hind-wing extending to fringes ; and 

 also Agrotis corticea with a white submarginal band on the fore-wings. Mr. Lucas 

 read the Eeport of the Field Meeting held at Wisley on July 5th, and exhibited 

 lantern slides to illustrate his remarks. 



October dth, 1902.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Jennings exhibited four rare species of Coleoptera : Cathormiocerus socius 

 from Sandown, Isle of Wight, Gymnetron Hnarice from Southport, Tiaris le/>idii 

 from Edmonton Marsh, and Ulster merdarius from Broxbourne. Mr. Kemp, 

 examples of Carabus violaceus v. exasperates from N. Cornwall and the New Forest. 

 Mr. R. Adkin, a Cossus llgniperda from the same fence referred to in the 

 "Proceedings" for 1889 and 1900, and read notes. Dr. Chapman, imagines, pupa; 

 and cocoons of Hybocampa (Notodonta) dryinops from Queensland, and compared 

 the species with H. Milhau&eri. He pointed out the spike of the pupa in both 

 cases, by which it drills a series of holes and thus weakens the cocoon for exit. 

 Mr. South, four aberrations of Lyccena Corydon : (I) a ? with blue hind-wings and 

 a black discal spot on fore-wings, (2) under surface of the fore- wings unusually 

 white, (3) and (4) var. syngrapha ; all were from Wiltshire, taken by the Rev. C. 

 A. Sladen. Three aberrations of L. Icarus: (1) <j> from Eastbourne with elongate 

 spots on the under surface of fore-wings, (2) ? very blue from Oxshott, (3) $ 

 blackish, shot with blue at base, from Horsley. L. minima, devoid of markings on 

 the under surface, from Swanage. Ematurga atomaria, a melanic $ from Bourne- 

 mouth. Gonosoma pendularia, 4 specimens from Market Drayton of a dark grey 

 form, said by Mr. Woodforde to be typical of the district ; and a specimen of 

 Pyralis Lienigialis taken near Oxford, August 22nd, 1902. — Hy. J. Tuknee, Ron. 

 Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : October 1st, 1902. — The Rev. Canon 

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



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Dibolia cynoglossi taken 

 by him near Pevensey on the 11th August last. He said that the beetle had 

 not been recorded as British since 1866. Mr. O. E. Janson, a fine hermaphrodite 

 specimen of Dryas Paphia taken in the New Forest by Mr. Herbert Charles 

 on July 28th, and recorded in "The Entomologist;" also a melanic specimen 

 of Papilio Demoleus from Ceylon in which all the usual marginal and sub- 

 marginal yellow markings were absent and the discal markings much obscured ; 

 on the under-side the yellow markings were entirely wanting. Mr. C. P. Pickett, 

 a $ Callimorpha domlnula with the hind-wings suffused with black, and an extra 

 black spot in the centre, the white spot on the fore-wings being absent ; and a very 

 large ? of the same species, both bred from larvae found at Walmer at the end of 

 March ; and three aberrant specimens of Trlphcena fimbria bred from larva taken 

 at Wood Street during the same month. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, specimens of a 

 wasp, Zethus chalybeus and a Neuropteron Mantispa semihyalina received with a 

 collection of Rymenoptera from Rio Janeiro suggesting a curious case of rniiniory. 

 Mr. F. B. Jennings, specimens of Ulster merdarius from Broxbourne, Herts., part 

 of a large colony of this usually scarce species found with Ulster 12-striatus and 

 other beetles inhabiting a heap of a chemical substance, probably gas-lime, in which 



