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The South London Entomological and Nattral History Society : 

 Thursday, February Uth, 1915. -Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



Messrs. E. J. Bunnett, M.A., of Forest Hill, and Gordon Fryer, of 

 Twickenham, were elected Members. 



Mr. L. W. Newman communicated a long record of the results of the October 

 pairing of Pyrameis atalanta, and of his unsuccessful attempt to keep the 

 fertile females alive through the winter. He felt convinced that we were almost 

 entirely dependt^nt upon immigration for our supply of this species. Mr. Fro- 

 hawk said that P. atalanta was on the wing all the winter in suitable weather 

 in the Scilly Isles. Mr. Barrett said that it occurred similarly in Sicily all the 

 winter. Mr. E, Adkin exhibited photographs, highly magnified, of the silken 

 thread construction of the cocoons of Saturnia pavonia, Anthrocera Jilipendulae 

 and Dicranura vinula. 



Thursday, February 25th, 1915.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair, 



A special exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. W. West (Ashtead), 

 A. E. Tonge, E. J. Bunnett, C. W. Colthrup, and by Mr. Colthrup on behalf of 

 the members of the Nature Photographic Society, including Messrs. Bedford, 

 Salmon, Sanders, Main, Hocking, Tonge, Irving, and Stanley Cook. Mr. New- 

 man, a long series of Celerio galii bred from N. Cornwall ova. Mr. J. Piatt 

 Barrett, a series of Euchloe damone from Sicily, and remarked on the small 

 amount of variation in the species. Mr. F. W. Frohawk, a series of yellow 

 varieties of Arctia caja from the Scilly Isles, where this form was met with in 

 some numbers. 



Thursday, March Uth, 1915.— Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



Mr. Baumann exhibited a bred series of Ephyra pendularia, including a 

 considerable percentage of ab. subroseata. They were a second generation from 

 larvae beaten in Surrey. Mr. Gibbs, a specimen of the huge Noctuid, Thysania 

 agrippina, from Costa Rica, where it sits on tree-trunks as does a Eupithecia. 

 Mr. Witcher, a remarkable gynandromorphous hybrid Smerinthus, ocellatus ^ 

 and pop^di '^ , in which the left side was S a.nd the right side $ . The rest of the 

 evening was devoted to exhibitions under microscopes. Mr. Adkin, the structure 

 of the cocoon of Dicranura vinula, and antennal structure in Lepidoptera, 

 Mr. Edwards, a species of Nycteribia, the parasite of the Fishing-bat. Mr. West 

 (Ashtead), androconia of Pieris brassicae, and a coccus found on bananas. 

 Mr. Coxhead, a number of mites infesting a Brazil-nut. Mr. Ashdown, minute 

 species of Coleoptera and Hemiptera. Mr. Bnunet, larva of a Thrips which had 

 been attacked by a micro-fungus. Dr. Chapman, skins of the first and last 

 stages of the larva of Everes argiades, with figures and illustrative notes on the 

 same. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



