140 LJune, 



on the section of tlie genus Tinea containing T. fvlvimitrella, T. arceJIa, T. corticella, 

 T. parasitella, T. picaella, T. granella, T. cloacella, T. albipunctella, T. capri- 

 mulgella, T. nigripunctella, and T. confusella. 



Thursday, April 9th, 1908.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Kayo exhibited an Agaristid moth, Scirocastnia prasfecta from Peru, which 

 by its antennae and general superficial characters closely resembled an Erycinid. 

 Mr. B. Adkin, a drawer of the various forms of Angerona prunaria and another of 

 Boarmia repandata. A discussion arose as to labelling insects geographically. It 

 was suggested that a label of locality might be placed at the side below each set of 

 a species from one locality. This would be impossible in a collection where the idea 

 was merely to group the varieties. Mr. South exhibited several species of Cucullia 

 with a view to gain some definite idea as to what the insect known as C. scrophu- 

 larise really was. Considerable discussion took place, but no definite result was 

 arrived at. Mr. Sich, a number of " house-moths," some eleven species, including 

 Endrosis fenestrella, Borkhausenia pseudospretella, Tinea pellionella, T. palle- 

 scentella, T. fuscipunctella, Tineola bi&ellieUa, &c., and read a short paper on his 

 exhibit. A discussion took place as to the ravages of these pests. — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society or London : Wednesday, May 6th, 1908. Mr. 

 C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Thomas Godfrey Andros, of Wilton House, 31, St. Saviour's Road, Jersey ; 

 Mr. Chourappa Chetti, Assistant Curator of the Goverment Museum at Bangalore, 

 India ; Mr. Frederick Charles Fraser, I.M.S., M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of 

 Trichinopoly, India; Mr. Walter M. Giffard, of Keeaunoki Street, Honolulu, 

 Hawaiian Islands ; and Mr. Alfred Vander Hedges, of 42, Kensington Park 

 Gardens, W. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited an example of the melanic ab. nigra of Tephrosia 

 consonaria bred from a wild ? taken near Maidstone, by Mr. W. Goodwin, and 

 a living larva of Sesia andreniformis feeding in the stum of J'iburnum lantana. 

 Mr. R. Shelford, a number of specimens of insects in amber of great geological age, 

 showing several forms closely allied to those of existing insects ; one Orthopteron 

 being very near to ICctobia lapponica. The President, a living example of Blatta 

 found in bananas from Mexico. Mr. Shelford said lie thought the species to be 

 Panchlora nivea, Linn. Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a living larva of Nudaria \senex, and 

 living larva and pupa of Calligenia miniata. He drew attention to the clubbed 

 bristles on the former as being incurved. Mr. O. E. Janson, a white aberration of 

 Epinephele jurtina, taken in Holme Park, Sussex, in June, 1904. Professor E. B. 

 Poulton read a letter from Mr. S. A. Neave giving an account of the bulbul feeding 

 its young with various " unpalatable " species. He also exhibited a collection of 

 Asilids and their prey from the Tring Museum, and a series of Neptis from 

 Madagascar to illustrate the specialization of this butterfly in its island forms. 

 A discussion on the characteristic coloration of insular forms in this and other 

 Lepidoptera followed, in which Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, the 

 Rev. G. Wheeler, Col. N. Manders, and other Fellows participated. Lieut.-Col. N. 



