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between two pieces of glass for use by students at Art Schools. Mr. Ray ward, the 

 hibernating larva of Aricia agestis (astrarche). Mr. Newman, a varied series of 

 Nemeophila plan tag inis from Aberdeen, an extremely light Mellinia gilvago, two 

 Hylophila prasinana with very indistinct lines, a rayed variety of Melanippe 

 sociata, and a broad banded form of Mesotype virgata (lineolata). Mr. Colthrup, 

 species taken at ivy in the New Forest in 1907. Mr. Turner, eight species of 

 Pyralidse taken in Canada last year by Mr. L. B. Prout, including Evergestis 

 slraminalis, and read notes on the forms and the distribution of each ; he also 

 showed examples of several British species of Pyralidm from Syria, including 

 Pyralis coat alia. Dr. Hodgson, a long series of Agriades bellargus showing the 

 colour variation obtainable in the species. They were selected from 1901 to 1907 

 in various parts of the North and South Downs. He pointed out the five distinct 

 shades of blue, and gave notes on the markings and on the aberrations obtained. 

 Mr. Fremlin read a paper, entitled " The Effect of Physical and Chemical Agencies 

 on Lepidoptera, being the Results of Experiments made in 1906-7," and a discus- 

 sion took place. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, March Uh, 1908. 

 Mr. C. O. Wateriiouse, President, in the Chair. 



Major E. F. Beecher, of 2, Berkeley Villas, Pittville, Cheltenham ; the Rev. 

 K. St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., of Kabai, Mombasa, British East Africa; and 

 Mr. Claude Rippon, M.A., of 28, Walton Street, Oxford ; were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The decease of Mr. Herbert Gross, F.L.S., for many years a Secretary of the 

 Society, was announced in a sympathetic speech by the President. 



Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited (a) A specimen of the weevil Phyllobius macuti- 

 cornis, Germ., retaining both the deciduous mandibles, and another in which one of 

 them is intact, both from Enfield ; also a single example of P. urticx, De G., from 

 Cheshunt, retaining one of these mandibles, the particular point of interest in 

 connection with the false mandibles in these species being that they are toothed in 

 the centre. (b) A remarkable specimen of the common Chrysomelid beetle, 

 Sermyla halensis, L., from Deal, showing unusual coloration of the elytra, which 

 are blue and coppery-red, instead of bright green. Also, on behalf of Mr. C. J. C. 

 Pool, a specimen of Otiorrhynehus tenebricosus, Herbst, from Newport, I.W., and 

 of Barynotus obscurus, ¥., from Galway, Ireland, in the first of which both the 

 pupal mandibles are toothed, and in the second not. Mr. II. St. J. Donisthorpe, 

 Otiorrhynehus sulcatus, Polydrusus sericeus, and Omias bohemani with pupal 

 mandibles. The Otiorrhynehus was dug up in its pupal cell at Oakham in 1895. 

 The Rev. G. Wheeler, a case containing specimens of Melitseid butterflies taken by 

 him at Riazzino, in Tessin, near Bellinzona, which he had identified with Assmann's 

 Melitsea athalia var. britomartis, they being absolutely identical with the specimens 

 so labelled in the Swiss National Collections at Berne. The close affinity with 

 M. dictynna made separation superficially very difficult, and until all the forms are 

 reared from the ovum it would be impossible to determine whether britomartis 

 constituted a separate species or not. 



