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showed females with and without the white spot, and one male which also had this 

 and other female characters. Mr. Barren, Colias Edusa, Fb., and C. Hyale, L., 

 taken at Blean this year. Mr. Carpenter made some observations upon the abundance 

 of the larvae of Vanessa Atalanta on Streatham Common, and remarked upon the 

 variation in size, some were full-fed, whilst others were quite email. A discussion 

 then ensued as to the double-broodedness of this species, in which Messrs. Carpenter, 

 Tutt, Fenn, Barrett, Carrington and Frohawk took part.— H. W. Baekee and 

 A. Shoet, Hon. Sees. 



ENTOMOLoaiCAL SOCIETY OF LONDON : October hth, 1892. — Henet John 

 Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. H. Yondale, F.H.M.S., of Cockermouth, was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Latridius nodifer feeding on a 

 fungus, Trichosporium roseum. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton sent for exhibition the male specimen of Elenchus 

 tenuicornis, Kirby, taken by him on the 22nd August last, at Stoney Stoke, near 

 Shepton Montague, Somerset, and described by him in the" Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," October, 1892, pp. 250—253. Mr. McLachlan stated that another 

 specimen of this species had been caught about the same date in Claygate Lane, 

 near Surbiton, by Mr. Edward Saunders, who discovered that it was parasitic on a 

 Homopterous insect of the genus Lilurnia, and had also described it in the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., pp. 249, 250. 



Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited, for Mr. McRae, a large collection of Colias Edusa, 

 C. Edusa, var. Helice, and C. Hyale, all taken in the course of five days' collecting 

 in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth and Christchurch, Hants. There were 

 twenty-six specimens of Helice, some of which were remai'kable both in size and 

 colour. He stated that Mr. McEae estimated the proportion of the variety Helice 

 to the type of the female as one in fifty. Mr. Adye also exhibited two specimens 

 of Deiopeia pulchella, recently taken near Christchurch. The Chairman, Mr. 

 Hanbury, Mr. Jenner Weir, and Mr. Merrifield commented on the interesting 

 nature of the exhibition, and on the recent extraordinary abundance of C. Edusa 

 and the var. Helice, which was probably not exceeded in 1877. 



Mr. Dallas Beeching exhibited four specimens of Flusia moneta, lately taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells. 



Mr. Grervase F. Mathew sent for exhibition two specimens of Plusia moneta 

 and their cocoons, which were found at Frinsted, Kent, on the 3rd September last. 

 It was stated that Mr. Mathew had found seven cocoons on the under-side of the 

 leaves of monkshood, and that the imagos had already emerged from five of them. 



Mr. Rye exhibited a specimen of ZygcBna filipendulcs, var. chrysanthemi, and 

 two varieties of Arctia villica, taken at Lancing, Sussex ; also dwarf specimens of 

 Euchloe cardamines from Wimbledon ; a variety of Thecla ruhi from Bournemouth, 

 and varieties of Coccinella ocellata and C. ohlongoguitata from Oxshott. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited specimens of Argynnis Pales, var. Isis, and var. 

 Arsilache, the females of which showed a tendency to melanism, recently taken at 

 Campfer, in the Upper Engadine ; also melanic forms of Erehia Melampus, and a 

 specimen of Erehia Neritie, taken at Bormio, at the foot of the Stelvio Pass. 



Mr. Elwes exhibited specimens of typical Erehia Melas, taken by himself at 



