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showing grndation in colour and 8|jotting, including ab. arete \ (5) larvae of 

 CoHt/mhia pendulariainova bred females of a brood of which some pupae appeared 

 to be going over ; and (6) he reported that seven out of ten pupae of Tephrosia 

 Iwidata were apparently going over. Mr. Buunett, specimens of Acronicta 

 leporina and HylojMla prasmana from Chislehurst. IJemarks on the season 

 showed that Noctuae were scarce, sugaring was a failure, honeydew had been 

 very detrimental to larvae, that a late frost had probably affected Af/riades 

 coridon badly, and that white butterflies and Polyoinviatus icarus were also 

 scarce. 



Aiif/ust 25th, 1919. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited Hiberma marginarin {progemmarid), typical 

 from Yeovil, ab.y?<.sc«;;rt from Finchley and St, Anne's-on-Sea, with intermediate 

 forms. Mr. Newman, a fine bred ab. walkcri of Spilosoma tne7ithastri from 

 Bexley. Mr. H, J. Turner, for Mr. Greer of Co. Tyrone, a long series of 

 Hydroecia crinaneiisis taken at honeydew on thistles, and a pair of Epinephele 

 jurtina ab. addenda which appears to be a local race in Co. Tyrone. Mr. Ashdown. 

 Opilo mollis and Gracilin mi/iuta from Surrey, and stated that one of the speci- 

 mens of the latter was the smallest Lougicorn he had ever seen. Mr. Sperring, 

 soft grey forms of Boarmia repandaia from Scotland, Agriades coridon (^ c? 

 with much black suffusion and a striata-ohsoleta form, and a varied series of 

 Aglais urticae, Paisley. Mr. Johnson, several examples of Limenitis sibylla 

 almost completel}' black, and aberrations of Dryas paphia with very consider- 

 able coalescence and elongation of the usual markings. Mr. Bunnett, a larva 

 of Acronicta leporina feeding on oak. Mr. Edwards, Papilio pj-otodamas 

 (hyperion), P. phoon ab. ulepos, and P. philenor ab. acauda from S, America. 

 Reports of the season were made by several members. — Hy. J. Tubnkr, Hon. 

 Editor of Proceedings. 



SOME INDIAN COLEOPTERA (1). 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



This paper deals with a few of the Coleoptera sent me during the 

 past five years by my two surviving sons, both in Government Service in 

 India. A certain number of their insects {Dianous, Flaneustomus, 

 Scrap fia, Mycetophagus, Xt/loplulus, Melanophila, etc.) have alread}'- 

 been described or noticed by me in this Magazine or elsewhere ; but 

 amongst the small forms there are representatives of various Palaearctic 

 genera not yet recorded from that country. These beetles, the Carabidae 

 and Curculionidae excepted, are not likely to be studied at present by any 

 of the contributors to the " Fauna of India," and it is desirable that the 

 presence south of the Himalaya of certain genera of other families 

 should be made known at the first o2)portunit3% e. g., the collections 

 before me include numerous OcJithehius and Hydraena, not a single 

 species of either of which is recorded from India. The description of a 



