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xanthic discal patches on all wings, and an Abraxas grossulariata extremely 

 l?ale, with only a few scattered traces of black and yellow markings. Mr. Kaye, 

 for Mr. Percy Richards, a curious and unique specimen of the genus Zanclo- 

 ynatha, with a combination of the markings of both Z. grisealis and Z. tarsi- 

 pennalis, )>ut considered as being the former species. Mr. Step, the galls of 

 Cynips kollari (?) from Bookham and compared them with C. tinctoria (?) 

 brought fi'om the Riviera by Dr. Chapman. Mr. Turner, a box of Geometers 

 which he had received from West Australia. — Ht J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesdaij, October 5th, 1910. — 

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



The Secretary read the reply to the Address to the King and to Queen 

 Alexandra. 



The President announced that the Conversazione postponed from last May 

 was unavoidably postponed until next year. 



Mr. George William Vitalli de Rhe Philipe, of Calcutta, and Dr. Charles 

 Ernest Lakin, M.D., M.R.C.S., F.R C.S., of 2, Park Crescent, Portland Place, W., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President exhibited an impression of the new seal of the Society, 

 prepared from a design made by Professor Selwyn Image, M.A., Slade Professor 

 of Fine Art in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society. Mr. 

 G. C. Champion, two living examples of Melanophila acuminata, captured 

 at Woking on September 17th last. Mr E. A. Butler, specimens of three 

 rare species of British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, viz., (a) Mesovelia furcata, M. 

 and R., and (fc) Cicadida cyanse, Boh., both from leaves of Potamogeton natans 

 in Epping Forest ; and (c) Cyrtorrhinus geyninus, Flor, from Broxbourne — a 

 recent addition to the British list, only two British specimens being at present 

 known. Mr. A. H. Jones, a series of Pieris manni, males only, from the valleys 

 of the lower slopes of Mont Canigou, near Vernet-les-Bains, taken at the end of 

 June last, with examples of P. rapse, and P. ergane from Italy for comparison. 

 Mr. P. J. Barraud, a case containing Pieridse from tlie neighbourhood of 

 Formia, Central Italy, including Pieris rapse, L., and var. metra, Stephens ; 

 Pieris manni, Mayer, and var rossii, Stefanelli, and ab. erganoides, Stefanelli ; 

 and Pieris ergane, Hiibn. With these examples he showed also enlarged photo- 

 graphs of male and female specimens of the summer forms of the above-named 

 species to illustrate the difference in the character of the markings and sliape 

 of the wing ; and enlarged photographs of the male genitalia of each of the 

 above-named species, exhibiting the difference in the shape of the clasper. 

 Commander J. J. Walker (a) a "co-type" of Austrostylops gracilipes, Lea, 

 from Bridgetown, West Australia ; (b) a series of Carahus violaceus, li., var. 



