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birds, and this is all that is required for natural selection. The experiments ol' 

 Mr. Weir, having been conducted on a certam number of species of birds, do not 

 proTO that the law holds good for all birds, any more than do the experiments 

 of Mr. Butler prove that the law is true of all other insect persecutors. The 

 larvae of Zygana were rejected by Mr. Weir's birds. — E.. Meldola, Brentford : 

 July %th, 1872. 



Mimicry between spiders and Jiowers.— Yesterday, my wife noticed a lovely 

 spider in the blossom of a single oleander. It was ivhite, beautifully striped ivith 

 rose, and closely resembled the inner part of the oleander flower. I once recorded 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. ii, p. 14) a similar instance of resemblance between a spider 

 and the flower of the ox-eye daisy in Nova Scotia, in connection with an analogous 

 observation by a gentleman at the Cape of G-ood Hope. — B. Piffaed, Nismes : 

 2Qth June, 1872. 



South London Entomological Society. — The Quarterly Meeting of this Society 

 was held on the 19th of June, to elect the Ofiicers and hear the Report read. 



Mr. J. E. Wellman was elected President. 



The Report stated that the list of Patrons is now complete. It contains the 

 names of Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., H. T. Staiuton, Esq., Henry Doubleday, 

 Esq., Edward Newman, Esq., R. M'Lachlan, Esq., and E. C. Rye, Esq. 



Thanks were given to the Patrons for their support ; also to Messrs. Jarvis, 

 Newman, and Hardwicke for donations of books, to Mr. Norman for a loan to the 

 libraiy, and to several gentlemen who support the Society without deriving any 

 benefit from it. 



The objects of the Society have been furthered by the purchase of a few books 

 for the library, and by the exliibition of numerous species of Coleoptera and Lepi- 

 doptera, also of preserved and living larvae ; and, in addition, three papers have been 

 read before the Society. 



The following exhibitions have been made : Mr. Wellman — T. biundularia, N. 

 Lucina, and Ang. prunaria, a magnificent and varied series, bred from eggs. Mr. 

 Cowley — L. exigua, captured at light in the City, AprU, 1872. Mr. Rochfort — C. 

 obliquaria and C. chamomillcB, Wanstead, early in May. Mr. Boden — Eup. lariciata 

 (a variety of?), Leith Hill in May; and others. Mr. Barrett — B. roboraria, larvae 

 and bred imagos from Brocken hurst ; a curious bred variety of N. bella (?), larva 

 fovmd at Epsom in April ; A. rusticata, bred from eggs ; E. formosella and ■ II. 

 ntwieWa, Lewisham, June. Mr. Davis — D. Orion and A. urticce, bred; L. unita 

 and P. imguicula, Box Hill, May. Mr. Marsh — Monotonia ^-foveolata, Peckham, 

 and Emb. verbasci (recently added Hemipteron), Deal. Mr. Champion — numerous 

 rare and local Coleoptera. Mr. Hoey — Eup. debiliata, larvae found at Leith Hill in the 

 spring ; and many preserved lanrse. Mr. Chaney — B. consortaria, T. extersaria, 

 &e., Chatham, May. Mr. Williams — N. lucina and others, Tilgatc, June ; and 

 many others. 



Entomological Society of London : \st July, 1872. — Prof. J. O. Westvfood, 

 M.A., P.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Lord Moretoii was elected a Member. 



