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Mr. Main exhibited a large piece of G-um Anime from West Africa, and called 

 attention to the numerous insecls, chiefly Coleoptera, enclosed in it. Mr. Edwards, a 

 number of species of the Nymphaline genus, Megalura, from South America, together 

 with BrassoJis astpra from Brazil. Mr. H. Moore, immature examples of two 

 species of Mantis from South Africa, and read notes on their habits. He also gave 

 an account of a European Mantis he had kept alive for some time. Mr. Adkin, a 

 bred series of Mela>>ippe fluctuata, from Wantage, with the female parents. The 

 latter were large and strongly marked, while the progeny were small and very 

 ordinary. He also showed specimens of Cramhus tristellus (1) almost albino, from 

 Pembroke ; (2) dark, from Perth ; and (3) with two transverse lines, from Orkney ; 

 all from the Barrett Collection. Mr. Main, a nymph of Periplaneta am&ricana, 

 which was about to change to the perfect stage. Mr. Turner read a Paper by 

 Mr. A. J. Croker and himself on a number of species taken by Mr. Croker in Assini- 

 boia, Canada, and exhibited among other species Pontia protodlce, Argynnis la>s, 

 Srentkif bellona, Colias euriftheme and vars., C. philodice, Erebia epipsodea, 

 Satyrus alope var. nephele, Lyvxna antiacis, L. dsedalus, Coenonympha pamphilus, 

 Phyciodes ismeria, &c. 



Thursday, April 2^th. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Payne, of Clapham ; Mr. P. Brown, of Balham ; and Mr. D. Peyler, of 

 Clapham ; were elected Members. 



Mr. Kaye, the living larvae of Orgyia gonostigma, and gave notes on their 

 hibernation. Mr. Moore, a number of species of Lepidoptera from Natal, in- 

 cluding Baphnis verii, Agrius convolvuli, Hippotion celerio, &c. Mr. Edwards, 

 a box of Lepidoptera from British North Borneo, and called attention to several 

 species much resembling those of Great Britain. Mr. Adkin, a number of series of 

 Aglais urticx, to point out the lines of variation shown by the species. In doing 

 so he referred to the broods and series brought by IVlessrs. Harrison, Main, Turner, 

 and others. Messrs. Harrison, Adkin, Bellamy, Kaye, Sich, Edwards, West, and 

 Ashby, then made remarks on the season to date. — Ht. J. Turner, Ron. Secretary, 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, May 2nd, 1906.— Mr. F. 

 Merrifield, President, in the Chair. 



The decease was announced of M. Leon Fairmaire, the distinguished French 

 Entomologist, who died on April 1st 1906, aged 86 years. 



Commander J. J. Walker showed fourteen examples of both sexes of Hystri- 

 chopsyUa ialpds, Curtis, the largest British flea, taken in the nest of a field-mouse in 

 a tuft of grass at Grange, near Gosport, Hants, on March 28th last. Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, living specimens of Apate capucina, Deiius fugax, a Cryptocephalus 

 (rugicoIUs), two species of Anthaxia, &c., forwarded by Dr. J". A. Chapman from 

 Ste. Maxime, South France. Mr. F. B. Jennings, an example of the weevil, Procas 

 armillatus, F., taken near Dartford, Kent, on April 13th last, a species extremely 

 scarce in Britain, and with the exception of a single specimen taken near Chatham 

 by Commander Walker in 1896, not recorded from this country for a considerable 

 period. Mr. M. Jacoby, a box of beetles from New Guinea, including Aesernia 

 meeki, Jac, A. costata, Jac, A. gestroi, Jac, and Cetoniadx and Lucanidae from 



