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Thursday, Man 2Sth, lit' '8. — Mr. Alfred Sich.F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. St. Aubyn, of Balham, and Mr. N. D. Riley, of Upper Tooting, were 

 elected Members. 



Mr. Main exhibited living larva? of a species of " Stick " insect. Mr. West 

 (Ashtead), a series of Anticlea badiaia bred from larva; taken on his rose trees. 

 Mr. Tonge, stereoscopic views of the ova of Salurnia carpini and Macrothylacia 

 rubi ; of the ova of Malacosoma castrensis and M. franco nica ; and of fertile and 

 infertile ova of Panolis piniperda. Mr. Newman, pupae of Dryas paphia, Argynnis 

 adippe and A. aglaia. Mr. Rayward, pupa in situ of Trochilium crahroniforme 

 and pupa-case of .Egeria culiciformis. The former emerged downwards and the 

 latter upwards. Mr. Carr, an imago and cocoons of Earias chlorana. Mr. Turner, 

 a long series of Pancalia leuioenhoekella from Bos Hill ; a short bred series of 

 Sivammerdamia griseo-capitella from Osshott ; and the very beautiful Hydro- 

 carapid, Ambia instrumental is, from Northern India. Mr. Gilbert Arrow gave an 

 address, with lantern slides and numerous specimens, on " The Origin and Use of 

 Horns in Coleoptera." — Hy. J. Turner, Son. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. — Conversazione, Friday, May 15th, 

 19U8, in the Rooms of the Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, W. (by 

 kind permission of H.M. Board of Works). Mr. C. O. Watkrhouse, President. 



The Exhibitions were as follows :— In the Large Room — Prof. E. B. Poulton, 

 F.R.S., Mimicry in American Papilios ; Col. D. Bruce, F.R.S., Microscopic prepara- 

 tions to illustrate the Entomological aspects of the Sleeping Sickness ; Lt.-Col. N. 

 Manders, R.A.M.C, series of Melanitis leda taken at different seasons ; Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff, plants of Bryophyllum calycinum, a favourite resting place of Callidryas 

 enbule ; rest attitudes of butterflies ; flies mimicking wasps ; and water grasshoppers ; 

 Dr. F. A. Dixey and Dr. G. B. Longstaff, scents in butterflies ; The President, 

 Illustrations of Tsetse and other biting flies ; Mr. E. A. Butler, Dimorphism in 

 Hemiptera, and recent additions in the Order to the British list; Mr. R. Shelford, 

 Insects preserved in Amber ; Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham, Nest of Wasp from Assam, with 

 occupant attacking spider; Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., Variation and Dimorphism in 

 Indo-Chinese and Indo-Malayan Butterflies; Mr. W. J. Kaye, Heliconine Butterflies 

 from British Guiana; Mr. W. F. Rosenberg, rare Heterocera from South America; 

 Mr. H. Eltringham, Mimicry in African Butterflies ; Mr. O. E. Janson, Goliath 

 Beetles ; Mr. H. C. Phillips, Parasites on Lepidoptera ; Mr. G. T. Porritt, Melanism 

 in West Yorkshire Lepidoptera; Mr. C. P. Pickett, British Lepidoptera; Mr. L. 

 W. Newman, living British larvse and pupae ; Mr. A. E. Sich, Lepidoptera of 

 South London ; Mr. Selwyn Image, Lepidoptera observed within six miles of Charing 

 Cross ; Mr. R. Adkin, local variation in a common British species ; Mr. S. J. 

 Capper, drawings by S. L. Mosley of varieties of British Lepidoptera ; Mr. H. C. 

 Phillips, drawings of Butterfly subjects ; Mr. Selwyn Image (for Mr. C. Whall), 

 drawings by Miss Garnett of Coleophorid species ; Mr. A. H. Jones, the Genus 

 Anthocharis; Miss M. E. Fountaine, Spring Butterflies of the Mediterranean Re- 

 gion : The Rev. G. Wheeler, rare and variable species of Swiss Butterflies ; Dr. T. 

 A. Chapman, Homceochromatism in French Butterflies ; Mr. A. W. Bacot, Malaco- 

 soma tieustria and M. castrensis, and their hybrid forms ; Mr. L. B. Prout and Mr. 



