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The Secretary read the Council's report from which it appeared that, during the 

 year, 51 members had been elected, bringing the total membership to 148. The 

 Treasurer read an abstract of the accounts, showing a balance to the Society's credit 

 of £9 8s. 6d. The election of ofEcers for 1888 was then taken with the following 

 results:— Mr. T. E. Billups, F.E.S., President; Mr. John T. Carrington, F.L.S., 

 Vice-President ; Mr. E. Step, Hon. Treasurer ; Mr. D. J. Rice, Hon. Librarian ; 

 Mr. W. West (Q-reenwich), Hon. Curator; Mr. H. W. Barker, Hon. Secretary; 

 Mr. H. J. Turner, Hon. Assistant Secretary ; Messrs. R. Adkin, F.E.S., T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S., R. South, F.E.S., W. H. Tugwell, J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., J. R. Wellman, and 

 J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., Council. 



January \2th, 1888 : T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. F. W. Hawes, C. E. Runnacles, and A. E. D. Q-ould, were elected 

 members. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited Cicadetta hmmatodes, and stated, as far as he , 

 knew, a dozen specimens had been taken during the past season in the New Forest ; 

 out of the dozen captured there was only one male. Mr. Tugwell, specimens of 

 Dianthcecia ccesia, W. V., from Germany, and the dark variety from the Ise of Man ; ; 

 also a number of continental examples of reputed or very rare species of British •. 

 Lepidoptera. Mr. Dobson, Agriopis aprilina, L., and a short discussion took place 

 as to the reason of the colour in this species fading so quickly when compared with 

 Moma Orion, Esp., and Qeometra papilionaria, L. Mr. Tutt contributed remarks on 

 the reputed appearance of AcidaJia strigaria, Hb., in Kent, and suggested they might 

 have been small specimens of A. remutaria, Hb. Mr. R. Adkin then read his 

 Presidential Address for 1887, for which a vote of thanks was moved by Mr. Billups, 

 seconded by Mr. T. W. Hall, and carried unanimously. — H. W. Baekee, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London ; Fifty-ffth Annual Meeting -. January 

 18th, 1888.— Dr. David Sharp, F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



An abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts, showing a balance in the Society's 

 favour, was read by Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., one of the Auditors ; and Mr. H. 

 Goss read the Report of the Council. 



It was announced that the following had been elected as Officers and 

 Council for 1888 :— President, Dr. David Sharp, M.B., F.Z.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. 

 Edward Saunders, F.L.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. 

 Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; and as other 

 Members of Council, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S. ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., 

 F.R.S. ; Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Mr. P. Brooke Mason, M.R.C.S., F.L.S.; 

 Mr. Edward Poulton, M.A., F.L.S. ; Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. ; Mr. Henry 

 T. Stainton, F.R.S. ; and Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S. 



The President delivered an Address, and a vote of thanks to him was moved by, 

 Mr. McLachlan, seconded by Mr. F. Pascoe, and carried. 



A vote of thanks to the Treasurer, Secretaries, and Librarian, was moved by 

 Mr. Kirby, seconded by Mr. C. O. Waterliouse, and carried. Mr. E. Saunders, Mr. 

 H. Goss, Canon Fowler, and Mr. F. Grut, made some remarks in acknowledgment. 

 Mr. Waterhouse proposed a vote of thanks to the Council, which was seconded by 

 Mr. White, and carried. — 11. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



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