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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 October 28th, 1909.— Mr. A. Sich, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Percy Bright, of Bournemouth, and Mr. G. Boweu, of Kingston-on- 

 TliameSj were elected Members. 



Mr. Tong-e exhibited living larv<e of Pharetra ru^nicis from Hatfield, feeding 

 on sallow. Mr. South, a series of Hylophila prasinana, bred, from Scarborough, 

 in some of wliicli a brilliant red coloration had developed. Mr. West (Green- 

 wich), specimens of the Homopteron Idiocerus aurulent^(,s, from Blacklieath ; it 

 had only once before been taken in Britain. Mr. Newman, series of Agrotis 

 cinerea from Kent, Lewes, and Brighton ; the Sussex races were much the 

 smaller. Mr. E. Adkin, a ? of Ocneria dispar taken at rest on an elm trunk 

 at Eastboiu-ne, and i-ead notes on the unusual occurrence ; he also showed 

 a series of Scapula decrejntalis taken near Rannoch in June last. Mr. Buckstone 

 recorded the finding of Noctxia xanthographa ^ and Luperina testacea ? in cop. 

 on September 27th. Mr. Edwards exhibited a nmnber of Cicadidx from South 

 America. Mr. Sich, for Mr. Green, the new British species recently recorded, 

 Depressaria putridella. Mr. Step conmivmicated the Eeportof the Field Meeting 

 held at Oxshott on October 9th. Mr. R. Adkin read a Report of the Meeting 

 of the Delegates of Societies affiliated to tlie British Association. Mr. Andrews 

 read a paper on " Dipt era." 



Entojiological Society of London : Wednesday, November i.7th, 1909. — 

 Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, one of the Secretaries, announced that the Council 

 had nominated the following Fellows to act as Officers, and to serve on the 

 Council of the Society for the Session 1910-11 -.—President, Dr. Frederick 

 Augustus Dixey, M.A., M.D. ; Treasurer, Mr. Albert Hugh Jones ; Secretaries, 

 Mr. H. Rov^'land-Brown, M.A., and Commander James J. Walker, M.A. ; 

 Librarian, Mr. George Charles Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the 

 Council, Professor T. Hvulson Beare, F.R.S.E., Mr. G. T. Bethime-Baker, F.L.S., 

 Dr. Malcolm Burr, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. , 

 Mr. Albert Harrison, F.L.S., F.C.S., Mr. Selwyn Image, M.A., Dr. Karl Jordan, 

 Ph.D., Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, Mr. Alfred Sich, Mr Henry Jerome Turner, 

 Mr. Rowland E. Turner, and Mr. James W. Tutt. 



Mr. Gilbert E. Bryant, of the Grove, Esher, Surrey, and Mr. Alfred 

 Tetley, M.A., of Avenue Eoad, Scarborough, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The decease of Prof. Dr. Gustav Kraatz, of Berlin, was announced, and Dr. 

 Karl Jordan gave a short account of the services rendered to entomological 

 science by the deceased gentleman, who Avas for many years a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Mr. H. Eltringliam exhibited a case of butterflies from African localities, 

 to show that the species described as Acrsea aurivillei is the ? of A. alciope, and 

 to illustrate the mimetic relations between the Acrxa, and the two species of 

 Planema and a species of Mimacraea included in the exhibit. The Rev. F D. 



