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again ; it seemed now to be extinct in the district. He was of opinion that in the 

 earlier decades of the century, a flight of this insect visited Sussex from some part of 

 the continent, and the climate not proving favourable, it had gradually become extinct. 

 It had almost entirely disappeared from the New Forest, where it was at one time 

 very abundant. Leucophasia sinapis was a case of an indigenous insect becoming 

 extinct in certain parts of Sussex, and from the weakness of its fl^ight, it was not likely 

 to have immigrated. Vanessa c-album, which was now extinct in Sussex, was, at 

 one time, so common in the hop gardens, that the peasants had a local name for 

 it, viz., the " silver bug." After referring to several other species, Mr. Weir, in 

 conclusion, said that as to the cause of the progressive rarity of the species mentioned, 

 he could not hazard a conjecture, but he felt tolerably certain that it had not been 

 brought about by the Entomologists. 



At the close of the paper a discussion took place, Mr. Tugwell stated that some 

 years ago he had taken A. cratcegi, at Heme, near Heme Bay. Mr. Chaney said it 

 was at one time very abundant near Rochester, and, in fact, all over the Hundred of 

 .Hoo, but it disappeared about the year 1871. L. sinapis used also to be abundant 

 in a wood near Chatham, but after the year 1856 it gradually became scarcer, and 

 about 1858 or 1859, disappeared. 



February lOth, 1887 : R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. H. Collings and L. F. Hill were elected members. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a remarkable variety of Vanessa Atalanta, L., and a 

 suffused variety of V. lo, L. Mr. R. Adkin, Spilonota incarnatana, Hb., bred from 

 larvae found in shoots of Rosa ruliginosa, in the heart of Surrey, 40 miles from the 

 coast. Mr. C. A. Briggs, a large number of Lycana Corydon, Fb., including dwarfed 

 forms, blue and brown forms of the female, varieties with the spots absent from the 

 under-side, in excess of the usual number, and running into streaks. Mr. R. South, 

 species of British and Foreign Lyccenidm, and contributed notes, calling particular 

 attention to a variety of L. Corydon from Asia Minor, which, so far as he could 

 remember, was similar to the varieties exhibited by Mr. Sabine at the Society's 

 meeting on the 7th October last, who had stated that he had seen L. hellargus and 

 L. Corydon in copula. This, Mr. South said, was quite possible, and he was of 

 opinion that this variety was a hybrid between the two species referred to. Mr. Tutt 

 thought the specimen referred to was simply a local form of Corydon. Mr. E. Joy 

 exhibited Lepidoptera from the New Forest. Mr. Carrington contributed a paper, 

 " Hibernation_and sestivation." — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : February 2nd, 1887. — Dr. D. Sharp, 

 r.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., Mr. Osbert Salvin, 

 M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.R.S., Vice-Presidents during the Session 

 1887—1888. 



The Rev. J. W. Holland, M.A., of Pittsburgh, United States ; Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 M.A., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford ; Mr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., of Brompton, 

 S.W. ; and Mr. Sydney Klein, F.R.A.S., of Willesden, N.W. ; were elected Fellows. 



Mr. P. Crowley exhibited a new species of SyncMoc fS. JohnstoniJ from Kilima- 



