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in one of the Birmingham parks by Mr. Bowater, the caterpillars there doing 

 great damage to the acacias in the house ; Peronea variegana, with vars. albana 

 and carrana, bred from Wavertree larvae ; Mixodia schulziana, a series from 

 Delamere Forest, where it was plentiful, though not previously on record for 

 the locality ; Paedisca solandriana, selected varieties fi-om Huddersfield and 

 Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks ; Ephippiphora trigeminana from the sandhills at 

 Crosby, very small specimens; and a fine series of Eupoecilia dubiiana, light 

 and dark forms from the same locality. 



The South London EntomoloctIcal and Nati'eal History Society : 

 Thursday, January 14th, 1915. — Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited an Anthrocera exulans with six wings, and an 



A. anthyllidis with three tarsi on the left mesothoracic leg, and an A. achilleae 

 with symmetrical wing notches. He also showed exotic lattice-work cocoons, 

 probably Syntomid or Lithosiid, and pupal biuTows of Scardia holeti, showing 

 the trap-door closing the cocoon proper. Mr. Mooi-e, cases of Psychidae from 

 the Island of Ehodes, cases of Oeceiicus kirbii from Antigua, Sec. Mr. E. Adkin, 

 variou.s cocoons of British species of Lepidoptera, and read a paper entitled 

 " Some Pupal Habitations." Mr. Sich read an extract from the " Flora of 

 Middlesex," Trimen and Dyer, 1869, giving an account of a Natural History 

 field-meeting which took place in 1(329 to Hampstead Heath. 



Thursday, January 28th, 1915. The President in the Chair. 



Annual Meeting. The Balance Sheet and the Eeport of the Council 

 were read and adopted. The President read his address dealing with the 

 position and work of the Society dviring the past yeai-, and with general 

 entomology during the same period. The usual votes of thanks were passed. 

 The following is a list of Officers and Council for the Session 1915-6 : President : 



B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents : A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., 

 andA. E.Tonge, F.E.S. ; Treasurer: T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; Librarian: A.W. Dods; 

 Curator: W. West (Greenwich) ; Editor of Proceedings : E. Step, F.L.S. ; Hon. 

 Secretaries: Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., and H. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; 

 Council: E. Adkin, F.E.S., S. E. Ashby, F.E.S., J. Piatt Barrett, F.E.S., 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.Z.S., F.E.S., B. S. Curwen, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., 

 D. E. Mordford, N. D. Eiley, F.E.S., and W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



Ordinary Meeting. Mr. Buckstone exhibited a bred sei'ies of Bupahts 

 piniaria showing much vai-iation ; aberrations of Hipocrita jacobaeae, smoky, 

 streaked with pink, and entirely smoky hind-wing's ; and Spilosoma menthastri, 

 which on emergence had a pink flush which was evanescent. Mr. Edwards, 

 living specimens of Ephestia kuhniella with pupae cocoons. Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 a fine series of ab. nigrocostata and ab. nigrosparsata of Abraxas grossulariata 

 from Huddersfield, in 1914. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



