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by Mrs. Manders from tlip G. O. C. the New Zealand and Australian T)ivision — 

 units of the immortal Anzac brigade: "On behalf of both myself and the New 

 Zealand and Australian Division, I send oiir sincerest condolences. Your 

 husband's work here and devotion to duty make his loss irreparable both to me 

 and to the Division." 



For him, as for the many thousand heroes who have perished in the great 

 enterprise of fi-eedom, may surely be reserved the glorioiis epitaph of Simonides 

 upon the dead at Plataea :— " These men, having set a crown of imperishable 

 glory on their own land were folded in the dark cloiid of death ; yet being dead 

 they have not died, since from on high their excellence raises them gloriously 

 out of the house of Hades." — H. Rowland-Brown. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, August 26th, 1915.— Mr. A. E. Tongb, F.E.S., Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



Mr. Main exhibited leaves of the sycamore, in which were the larvae of 

 the sawfly, Phyllotoma aceris, and leaves of alder in which another species of 

 Phyllotoma fed in a somewhat similar manner. Mr. S. Edwards, butterflies from 

 S. America of the genera Cybdelis, Cyclogramma, Catoyiephele and Myscelia, 

 showing marked seasonal dimorphism. Mr. Newman, a " Blue," captured in 

 Kent in July, which, from its colour and markings, he considered a hybrid 

 between Agriades coridon and A. thetis. Mr. Bunnett, bunches of the ova of 

 the lace-wing Chrysopa fiava, each laid on a separate stalk. Mr. C. B. Williams, 

 a box of Lepidoptera he had met with in the Italian Val Eormazza, from 

 Domodossola leading up to the Tosa Falls. Mr. Ashdown, two aberrations of 

 Coccinella bipunctata, in which the spots were enlarged and united in a very 

 \inusual manner. Mr. West (Greenwich), a rare Coleopteron, Scymnus arcuatus, 

 presented to the Society's collections by the Rev. J. F. Perry. Mr. Sperring,'ex- 

 tremely dark examples of Boarmia gemmaria ( rhomboidaria) bred from ova, the 

 female parent from Darenth. Mr. Tonge, confluently marked examples of Anthro- 

 cera fdipendulae from Reigate. Mr. B. S. Williams, on behalf of Mr. Wanhill, 

 a Gonepteryx rhamni, in which male and female colour were mixed on the fore 

 wings, and several melanic specimens of Hybernia defoliaria from Epping Forest. 

 Mr. Bowman, a very fine series of H. defoliaria from Epping Forest, including 

 a dozen melanic examples, sevei'al light forms, strongly banded forms, mottled 

 forms, etc. In nine years previous to 1914 he had only met with two melanic 

 forms until 1914 in this locality. 



Thursday, September 9th, 1915.- Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Sano exhibited living larvae, pupae, and imagines of the Longicorn 

 Coleopteron, Rhagium iriquisitor. Mr. Leeds, under-side aberrations of AgriU' 



