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original ■work. It wa8 the duty of entomologists to subscribe to the Eay Society 

 before,* it becomes doubly so by the publication of this volume. 



Perhaps some apology is needed for the length of this notice, considering that 

 many of the most interesting parts of the book have been before published in the 

 pages of this Magazine, but the great importance of the work, and the amount of 

 collected original information which it contains, must be my excuse. It will prove 

 for many years the text book on the larva) of British butterflies. — R. C. R. Jordan, 

 Edgbaston : March, 1886. 



The South London Entomological and Natural IIistokt Society, 

 April 15tk, 1886 : R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. T. D. A. Cockerell, A. J. Windybank, T. P. Newman, W. U. Wright, 

 T. Gibbs, Jun., and W. F. de V. Kane, were elected Members. 



Mr. Mera exhibited a fine series of Syntomis Phegea, Linn., bred from ova de- 

 posited by a female taken in Italy. Mr. E. Joy, a variety of Coenonympha Famphi- 

 Itis, L., taken at Hadley Wood, near Barnet. Mr. Tugwell, a bred series of the 

 Dover form of Cidaria suffumata, Hb. Mr. Wellman, specimens of Phoxopteryx 

 i upupana, Tr. Mr. Billups exhibited a curious construction, which had been found 

 by Mr. J. T. Williains under a stone in his garden at Foots Cray ; the formation 

 consisted of about fifteen or sixteen fusiform cocoons, composed of a felt-like material 

 and arranged side by side, vertically and transversely, the whole forming a pear- 

 shaped mass ; each cocoon contained a larva which Mr. Billups said was certainly 

 not Dipterous nor Hymenopterous, but might probably be the larva of a species of 

 Lepidoptera. Several Members concurred in this opinion. 



May Qth, 1886 : The President in tlie Chair. 



Messrs. F. Enock and C. Brady were elected Members. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited a bred series of Antispila PfeiffereUa, lib., Stn., with 

 specimens of the mined leaves, and the pupa cases cut out from the leaves. Mr. 

 Wellman, Cidaria suffumata, Hb., including the Dover form ; a fine series of Clostera 

 reclusa, Fb. ; also Adela cuprella, Thnb., Fb., Stn. Mr. West, a fine series of JEphyra 

 punctaria, L. Mr. Mera, Aleucis pictaria. Curt'. The President showed a long 

 series of Endromis versicolor, L , and stated in reference to his exhibit, that in 

 March, 1884, he received twenty-five ova from Mr. Gibb, the parent moth having 

 been inbred, originally from Rannoch specimens ; in due course the larvfe fed up, 

 the first moth (a male) emerging on the 19th April, 1885, and was followed by eight 

 others, all females, and this year he had bred twelve males. He thought it was a 

 fact worthy of notice, that the first year he should breed all females, and the next 

 all males. Of course his observation only extended to a portion of the brood, and 

 it would be interesting to know whether or not the remainder of the brood had 

 emerged in the same manner. Mr. Carrington communicated notes of a visit at 

 Easter to Selborne, tlie home of Gilbert White. In the report of the Meeting on 



* To show what entomology owes to this Society, I may give the following list of works since 

 1865: — Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Douglas and Scott, 1865; British Aphides, Buckton, 1875, I8T7, 

 1880, 1882 ; Colembola and Thysannra, Lubbock, 1873 ; British Phytophagous Hymenoptera, 

 Cameron, 1882, 1884 ; not including the volume on Oribatidx published in 1883. 



