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Agabus affinis, Pk., from Sutton ; he said that he liail previously also recorded 

 A. wnguicularis, Thorns., from thence, but that on sending the specimens to 

 Mr. Balfour Browne they had all proved to be afllnis ; Dermestes vulpinus, F., from 

 Fareham, where the larva? were eating the wooden beams in a manure factory. 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, butterflies of the genus E/nnephele, chiefly from 

 Turkestan. Mr. Hubert Langley, Lobophnra carpinata, Bkh., from Princethorpe 

 Wood, and said that he had also taken L. halterata there this year. — Colbran J. 

 Wainwkight, /fow. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 Thursday, November \Uh, 1907. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited imagines of Charaxes jmius bred from ova. Mr. 

 Newman, series of (I) Plusia bractea captured in Aberdeenshire ; (2) P. chryson 

 (orichalcea) bred fram Cambridgeshire larvse. Dr. Hodgson, (I) a varied series of 

 Spilodes palealit from Dover ; (2) specimens of Plebeius argus (cegon) destitute of 

 orange markings on the upper-sides ; (3) several aberrations of Agriades corydon, 

 including ab. semisyngrapha and instances with no orange mai'kings ; (4) A. bel- 

 largus, forms without orange on the hind-wings ; and (5) a series of Urbicola 

 comma from Clandon, including pale and dark forms and a beautiful cream-coloured 

 aberration. Mr. H. Moore, a specimen of Xylocopa violacea captured alive in the 

 London Docks. Mr. R. Adkin, for Mr. C. E. Young, a Sirex juvencus found at 

 Rotherham. Dr. Chapman, specimens of Oreopsyche pyremrella bred from cases 

 collected at Gavai-nie, July, 1907. Mr. R. Adkin read a paper, "Notes on 

 Porthesia chrysorrhxa," and exhibited a selection of those bred by him at East- 

 bourne. 



Thursday, November 28th, 1907.— The President in the Chair. 



The Annual Exhibition of Varieties. 



Mr. Austin, of Highbury, was elected a Member. 



Mr. E. C. G-oulton exhibited a very varied bred series of Hypsipetes sordidata 

 from Surrey localities, and two $ Cosmoiriche potatoria of the pale female colour, 

 captured at Wicken. Messrs. Harrison and Main, (1) series of Odontopera biden- 

 tdta, bred from black Yorkshire parents, from dark Yorkshire parents, and from 

 a very light Wisley ? , with numerous collected specimens from many localities, 

 and compared the variations shown ; and (2) four broods of Pieris nwpi, bred from 

 9 s from the Klein Scheidegg Pass, Switzerland, and remarked on the bryonias 

 forms obtained. Mr. Tonge, (1) a bred series of Orapta c-album from ova laid by 

 a ? taken by Mr. Barraud in the Wye Valley, and gave notes on the variation 

 produced, including var. hutchinsoni ; (2) a series of Dipterygia scabriuscula taken in 

 his garden at Reigate ; and (3) a series of stereographs of entomological subjects 

 by himself. Dr. Hodgson, a series of Anthrocera trifolii from Sussex (one locality), 

 including var. hippocrepidis and ab. obscura ?, typical of the results of four days' 

 collecting of Mr. Grrosvenor and himself, and gave notes on the selective processes 



