1910.] ^^^ 



New Forest. Mr. A. W. Boyd, B. repandata var. nigra, Hyhernia defoliaria and 

 H. aurantiaria from Delamere Forest. Mr. Tait's exhibit included a fine and 

 varied series of Himera 'pennaria from Monk's Wood. 



The Meeting was adjoimied to March 21st. - H. E. Sweeting and 

 Wm. Mansbridgb, Hon. Secretaries. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society 

 Thursday, March lOth, I910.-Mr. A. SiCH, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. West exhibited two cabinet drawers of the Society's Collection of 

 Coleoptera which he had just remounted and arranged. Mr. Barrett, specimens 

 of Nyssia hispidaria, PUgalia pedaria, and Hyhernia leucophearia from Richmond 

 Park, and: noted that he took the first named species in the same locality forty 

 ^ears ago. and that quite one-third of the last species seen were more or less 

 crippled. Mr. Lucas, photographs of a very rare earwig, 0. lewisi, from a 

 specimen recently obtained in the Liverpool Docks. Mr. Bonham, two bred 

 • intensely black ? s of Nyssia hispidaria. Mr. L. W. Newman, an interesting 

 series of Anthrocera species from Bristol, taken by Messrs. Smallcombe, 

 including A. hippocrepidis v. chrysanthemi ; a yellow form, a fine pink form, and 

 a red form with yellow spots, with a confluent form of A. lonicersa ; also 

 a confluent specimen of A. meliloti ; and reported that pupa^ of a second 

 brood of Abraxas grossulariata kept out of doors were still alive. The remainder 

 of the evening was devoted to the exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. Tonge, 

 West (Ashtead), Lucas, Dennis, and Edwards, including series ilkistrative of 

 the resting attitudes of insects, details of insect structure, various plants 

 attacked by galls, and the natural history and structure of the cockroach.— 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London .- Wednesday, March 2nd, 1910. 

 Dr. F. A. DixET, M.A., M.D., F,R.S., President, in the Chair. 



J^ vote of sympathy and, condolence was passed unanimously with the 

 family of th^ late Edward Saunders, F.E.S., and of the late George Willis 

 Kirkaldy, Fellows of the Society. The decease was announced, also, of George 

 Carter Bignell, and Albert Piffard, Fellows of the Society. 



It was announced-that the Society would be represented at the forthcoming 

 Jubilee Celebration of the Entomological Society of Russia by Dr. Malcolm 

 Burr, D.Sc, F.L.S.^ F.Z.S., &c., and that he would deliver an Address ot Con- 

 gratulation. 



Mr. John C. Eales-White, of 47,- Chester Terrace, Eaton Square, S.W., was 

 elected a Fellow of this Society. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited various forms of Agriades (Polyommatns) 

 corydon from Southern Europe, including A. var. arragonensis, and its form 

 co^rulescens from Albarracin, Spain; also a pair of Brenthis selene from La 

 Granja, and a pair of B. hecate from Hungary, showing the remarkable 



