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London Natural History Society : Meetings held at Hall 20, Salisbury 

 House, Finsbury Circus, E.C. 



January 5th, 1915.— Mr. S. H. Archer of 52, Elseuham Street, Southfields, 

 and Mr. A. E. Hodge of Southfields, were elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. C. H. Williams exhibited a long series of Dianthoecia co7ispersa from 

 the Shetland Isles, and a few specimens from Croydon. 



Mr. L. B. Pi-out_, the retiring President, read his Presidential Address 



January VMh, 1915.— The Eev. C. E. Raven, of Cambridge, was elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Mr. L. B. Prout exhibited two cabinet drawers containing a series of nearly 

 all the British species of Eupithecia, including very variable E. subfulvata and 

 its Scottish forms cognata, &c. : E. pygmaeata captured flying over a hedge in 

 the afternoon at Doncaster ; melanic forms of E. castigata, E. albipunctata, 

 E. vulgala, &c. Mr. H. W. Wood, E. castigata and its melanic form ab. 

 obsc^irissima Prout, E. innotata, showing 1st and 2nd brood usual forms, and 

 some without the xisual mai-kings also of both broods, from Durham; and E. 

 fraxinata from Middlesbroiigh ; also larvae of Pieris brassicae taken in a garden 

 at Southfields on January 17th, several degrees of frost being registered that 

 morning. Mr. Bernard Cooper, a varied series of Mimas tiliae bi'ed from a 

 Lyndhurst $ , taken June, 1913. 



February 2nd, 1915 : The Annual Exhibition. — Dr. Cockayne exhibited 

 an extreme specimen of Rumicia phlaeas ab. eleus, from Berkhampsted, 1911 

 (a veiy hot season); a specimen of Agriades coridon ab. semisyngrapha Tntt, 

 fi"om Royston, showing additional blue scales on inner margin of left fore-wing 

 (a gynandromorph), also a photograph of the specimen, in which the gynandro- 

 morphic characters were clearly shown; also Mr. C. P. Pickett, long series of 

 Agriades coridon from Royston, the result of four years collecting, including 

 males and females with underside markings obsolete; ab. inaequalis Tutt, and 

 certain gynandromorphic females with the wings on one side smaller than on the 

 other, the smaller side having scattered blue scales ; a specimen in which the male 

 element was on the large side, and a female unequal on the two sides, the 

 lunules larger and brighter on the right side, which was also of the ab. 

 parisiensis from beneath. Mr. H. B. Williams, Mimas tiliae, and some of its 

 commoner aberrations, including ab. centripuncta Clark, and a long series of 

 Amorpha popjuli, including two gynandromorphs bred from one brood in 1914 ; 

 also a drawer of underside forms of Polyommatus icarus, including ab. obsoleta 

 Clark, ab. antico-striata Tutt, and others. Mr. H. W. Wood, Larentia fiavi- 

 cinctata, type from Rannoch, and a remarkable light local race from Ireland ; 

 three yellow abs. of Brephos parthenias from Surrey ; Nonagria neurica and 

 its abs. fusca and rufescens from East Sussex ; Acidalia immorata, bred as a 

 3rd brood, from Lewes, October, 1913 ; Acidalia contiguaria, and a melanic form, 

 and a drawer of Mellinia ocellaris, and all its known British varietal forms, 

 including abs. lineago Gn., and intermedia, also the allied species fulvago L., 

 and gilvago Esp., and gilvago ab. suffusa ; also drawings by Mr. Backlake of the 



