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and Amphidas]is betularia. In Hymenoptera, Mr. J. Hooper showed one of 

 two fine female specimens of the true Sirex juvencus, taken at MiddlestoAvn. 

 Mr. R. Bntterfield, Mutilla europaea, from Perthshire, &c. In Neiiroptera, 

 Mr. Porritt, series of the new connty records, Taeniopteryx trifasciata and 

 Nemoura iiiconspicua. In Orthoptera, Mr. It. Butteriield, Periplaneta australasiae 

 and P. americana, from Keig'hley. 



At the Evening Meeting a discussion was opened by Professor Garstang, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., on " How best to induce young people to take interest in Ento- 

 mology," in which a large number of the members joined, and in the course of 

 which the present craze for incessant changes in nomenclature was strongly 

 condemned, as being not only a deterrent to the beginning of the study, bv^t in 

 many cases the cause of abandonment by those who had already begun. — 



G. T. POBBITT. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, Nov. I2th, 1914.— Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. Sich reported having seen a Pyrameis atalanta in Holborn on that day, 

 November 12tli. Mr. H. Moore exhibited a small colony of the ant Caniponotus 

 ahdominalis found in a banana from the West Indies. Mr. Step, abnormal 

 catkins of hazel from Mickleham, probably due to the attack of the gall-mite 

 Eriophyes coryli. Mr. Hall, a gynandromoi'phous specimen of Agriades coridon, 

 essentially a female but with patches of blue scales and androconia on the 

 right fore-wing. Mr. Curwen, a number of Geometers taken by him in France. 



Thursday, November 26th, 1914.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. E. Adkin, long series of Agriades thetis, including ^ s of aberi-ant 

 'colour, often asserted to be hybrids with A. coridon ; $ s showing blue colora- 

 tion of the (J i and many underside varieties. Mr. H. Worsley-Wood, a bred 

 series of Callimorpha quadripunctata (hera) and its aberration lutescens. 

 Kev. G. Wheeler, series of Plebeius argyrognomon v. armoricanus from Brittany, 

 with emphasised markings ; series of Hesperia malvae ab. iara$ from the 

 Rhone Valley ; a gynandromorph of P. argyrognomon, right $ , left ^ , etc. 

 Mr. Prideaux, a gynandromorph of Trichiura crataegi, Agriades coridon with 

 silver-tipped peacock eyes on hind-wing upper-sides, with albinistic and 

 melanistic specimens of several species. Mr. Talbot, for Mr. J. J. Joicey, rare 

 exotic Rhopalocera, including Ornithoptera alexandrae and 0. rothschildi, with 

 several rare and new species of Papilio ; very fine species of Hepialidae from 

 Australia, including Charagia ramsayi, and a Tineid which attacks the larvae, 

 and some very fine Cossidae also from Australia. Mr. A. E. Gibbs, New World 

 Papilionidae, including P. ornythion, P. montezuma, P. gimdiachianus, P. ses- 

 ostris, P. lycimenes, P. torquatus, P. homerus, P. glaucus, etc., with their various 

 local races, and gave notes on each species. The Rev. A. T. Stiff, a series of 

 Epinephele tithonus from Tavistock, showing much colour variation and con- 



