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producing species of Bombyces. British Lepidoptera was represented by over forty 

 exhibitors, including Mr. C. G-. Barrett, Dr. Wheeler, Messrs. J. E. Eobson, S. Webb, 

 P. B. Mason, C. S. G^regson, W. Tugwell, J. A. Clark, J. W. Hall, A. Short, A. W. 

 Mera, O. Goldthwait, J. Henderson, W. Machin, J. W. Tutt, W. Farren, C. H. 

 Williams, R. Adkin, J. Wellman, J. Adye, R. S. Standen, — Jager, R. South, F. 

 Merrifield, &c., &c. In other Orders, Mr. R. McLachlan exhibited European 

 Neuroptera. Coleoptera were shown by Mr. W. West, Mr. J. Lewcock, and Mr. 

 T. R. Billups ; the last named gentleman also exhibiting British Hemipfera- 

 Heteroptera and Homoptera, Hymenoptera-Aculeata, and Ichneumonidce, long series, 

 many being unique and others new to science, also two drawers showing the life- 

 histories of many species of internal parasites, an exhibit which was certainly one 

 of the most instructive in the room. Mr. Auld showed nests of hornets, and Mr. 

 H. Moore, exotic Orthoptera and wasps' nests. Mr. C. H. Goodman had two cases 

 of dissections illustrating the comparative anatomy of the different Orders of Insects. 

 During the two days the Exhibition was open it was visited by over 1100 

 visitors. — H. W. Baekee and H. Shoet, Ron. Sees. 



Entomological Society of London : April 2.1th, 1892.— Robeet McLach- 

 lan, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer, in the Chair. 



Mr. William Edward Baily, of Lynwood House, Paul Churchtown, Penzance, 

 and Mons. Edmond Fleutiaux, of 1, Rue Malus, Paris, were elected Fellows of tlie 

 Society. 



Mr. C. G-. Barrett exhibited, for Mr. Sabine, varieties of the following species, 

 viz., one of Papilio Machaon, bred by Mr. S. Bailey at Wicken in 1886 ; one of 

 Argynnis Lathonia, taken at Dover in September, 1883 ; one of A. Euphrosyne, 

 taken at Dover in 1890 ; and one of A. Selene, taken at St. Osyth in 1885 by Mr. 

 W. H. Harwood. He also exhibited a long series of Demas coryli, reared by Major 

 Still from larvae fed exclusively on beech, which he said appeared to be the usual ^ 

 food of the species in Devonshire, instead of hazel or oak. Mr. Barrett likewise 

 exhibited, for Mr. Sydney Webb, a number of varieties of Arge Oalathea, Lasiom- 

 mata Megoera, Hipparchia Tithonus, and Caenonympha Famphilus, from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Dover. 



The Rev. J. Seymour St. John exhibited a variety of the female of Eyhernia 

 progemmaria, taken at Clapton in March last, in which the partially developed wings 

 were equally divided in point of colour, the base being extremely dark and the outer 

 portion of the wing very pale. 



The Rev. Canon Fowler made some remarks on the subject of protective re- 

 semblance ; his attention had been recently called to the fact that certain species of 

 Kallima apparently lose their protective habit in some localities, and sit with their 

 wings open, and Dr. A. R. Wallace had informed him that he had heard of a species 

 of Kallima sitting upside down on stalks, and thus, in another way, abandoning its 

 protective habits. Mr. W. L. Distant said that a species of butterfly in South 

 Africa, which, when its wings were vertically closed, resembled the reddish soil on 

 which it settled, in the Transvaal rested with open wings on quartzite rock, which 



