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Thursday y January 2ioth, 1906. — The President in the Chair. 



Annual General Meeting. 



The Balance Sheet showed the financial condition to be very satisfactory, there 

 being some £42 balance. The Report of the Council was read, showing that the 

 meetings had been well attended, the exhibits varied and interesting, that nine 

 Papers and Addresses, three lantern demonstrations, and five Reports had been 

 given to the Society ; that five field meetings had been held, and that the library 

 and collections were constantly being refeiTcd to by the Members. The following 

 gentlemen were then declared elected as Officers and Council for the year: Presi- 

 dent, R. Adkin, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., and Hugh Main, 

 B.Sc, F.E.S. ; Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; Librarian, A. W. Dodds ; Curator, 

 W. West ; Hon. Secretaries, Stanley Edwards, F L.S., F.Z.S., and Hy. J. Turner, 

 F.E.S. ; Council, F. E. Carr, T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S , F. Noad Clark, 

 A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.Z.S. , A. Sich, F.E.S., E. Step, F.L.S., and W. VVest, L.D.S. 

 Mr. Main read his Presidential Address, then introduced Mr. Adkin, the new 

 President, who took the Chair. 



Oedinaet Meeting. 



Mr. Bellamy exhibited (1), a very fine " black " form of Anihrocera trifoliiy 

 captured at Ringwood on June 25th, 1899, afterwards ascertained to be the var. 

 obscura; (2) an extreme form of Polyommatus corydon, yar. fowleri, from Swanage, 

 July 30th, 1899, in which the spots on the white border of the hind-wings are almost 

 absent ; and (3) a yellow form of Caliiniorpha dominula. Mr. Turner, a number of 

 species of buttei'flies, taken by Dr. Chapman in late July, at Larche and Lauteret, 

 including Colias palteao, Polyommatus damon, P. escheri, P. orbitulus, Epiaephele 

 lycaoUy Erehia lappona, &c. Mr. Edwards, the pupa cases of Cionus scrophularias 

 among the seed vessels of Scrophularia nodosa, showing the remarkable resem- 

 blance ; also specimens o£ Papilio palros and photinus. Mr. Lucas, specimens of 

 the Stag-beetle, Lucanus cervus, dug up from their cocoons at Kingston, in early 

 January. Mr. Tonge, for Mr. Vine, a pale yellow bipupillate form of Epinephele 

 janira, and a photographic life-history of Euchlo'e cardamines. 



Entomological Society of London : March 7th, 1906. — Mr. F. Meeri- 

 FIELD, President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Q-eorge Wheeler, M.A., of Les Tourelles, Territet, Switzerland, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. U. W. Andrews exhibited two specimens of Microdon latifrons,Ij\f., a rare 

 Dipteron taken in the New Forest in June, 1905. Mr. H. M. Edelsten, examples 

 of Nonagria neurica, Hb., and N. dissoluta, var. arundineta, Schmidt, from Grermany 

 with (?) var. arundineta from Central Asia, for comparison with JSl. dissolutx and 

 N. var. arundineta from Kent, Cambridge and Norfolk. Mr. L, B. Prout showed 

 and read a note on a variable series of Gynopteryx gladiaria, Guen., and its varieties. 

 Mr. A. J. Chitty, combs of the honey bee formed on a branch of a nut tree, the bees 



