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Societies. 



The South London Entomolooical and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, Sept. Hth, 1910.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. P. Barrett exhibited Iw-d Hyles euphorJiix from Sicily, and a nxunber 

 of reeds from whicli larva^ and pn2)a3 of Nonayria arundinis had been extracted 

 by birds. Mr. Ashby, a series of A nomala friscM from the New Forest, three- 

 fourths of whicli were of the beautiful bhie-green variety. Mr. West (Green- 

 wich), a short series of the rare Homopteron, Oliarus leporinus from Holmsley, 

 New Forest. Mr. Newman, long varied series of Agrotis cinerea from N. Kent 

 and Pachnohia alpina from Rannoch ; Euchelia jacobasse with red markings 

 united; n nxiniher ot Spilosoma fuliginosa,hred in Avigust from Aberdeen ova 

 laid in June, which were of the red southern form ; and a varied series of Amor- 

 pha populi, inckiding a unicolorous specimen and one with a greenish band. 

 Mr. Stej), for Mr. Bishop, a cluster of Drosera intermedia from Cut-mill, which 

 had captured a dragon-fly, Agrion pnella. Dr. Hodgson, a gynandi'omorphous 

 Brenthis euphrosyne from Ashdown Forest. Mr. Sich, shells of the ova of 

 Coleophora 7mieicostella on thyme, cases of C. potentillse {?), and of C. paripeyi- 

 nella, and mines the of larva? of Cemiostoma scitella on liawthorn. Dr. Chapman 

 showed a series of slides illustrating various, chiefly strvictural, points in rela- 

 tion to the " Blues," especially P. argus, A. coridon, and A. thetis {hellargus) ; 

 their larvae at various stages, characteristic hairs, honey glands, &c. ; pupal 

 structure, svich as the curious pocket in P. argus and A. thetis between segments 

 4 and 5 of the abdomen, to receive the ends of the legs and antenn® ; the male 

 appendages, to illustrate their characteristic fonns in the Plebeiids ; a series of 

 specimens of the teeth at the end of the clasp of P. argus, and also of a number 

 of allied species, showing the great variation of these parts in P. argus, and 

 quite impossible to confound with the other species, where variation might be 

 equally great, but specimens were not available for this. The si>ecimens were all 

 pressed quite flat so as to be perfectly comparable. 



Thursday, September 22nd, 1910.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a bred series of a second brood of Agriades coridon 

 from ova laid by spring imagines taken in the Kiviera. Mr. West (Ashstead), 

 a bred series of Malacosoma neustria, containing a good proportion of very light 

 and very dark forms in both sexes. Mr. Andrews, short series of the Diptera 

 Pcgomyia sctaria and Isopogon brevirostris from Chattenden, Kent, and Shore- 

 ham respectively. Mr. Newman, a Celastrina argiolus ? with very wide black 

 margin and spotted fringe ; a Pachnobia hyperborea in which a radial segment 

 of the hind-wing has the rich markings of the fore-wing ; on orange Arctia caja 

 with fore-wings having only a few small blotches of dark marking ; several 

 forms of Angerona pru7iaria uniform and richly marbled ; an Adopaea lineola with 



