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amples connecting the true named forms. Mr. Carrington said he had taken and 

 bred both forms in Scotland, where he had found the larva feeding on sallow. 



February Uh, 1886 : The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Billups exhibited Agapanthia Uneaticollis, Don., from Lincoln, also 

 Callidium variahile, Linn., and Strangalia 4:-fasciata, Linn., from Chobham. Mr. 

 Rose exhibited a variety of Satyrus Hyperanthus, L., in which the ring-spots of the 

 upper-side, instead of being of the ordinary form, were identical with those usually 

 confined to the under-sides. Mr. Wellman, a fine series of Oporabia Jiligrammaria, 

 H.-S. Mr. J. T. Williams, a very beautiful banded variety of Nyssia hispidaria, 

 Fb. Mr. Joy, subdiaphanous varieties of Vanessa lo, L., and V. urticce, L., and Mr. 

 South, short series of Emmelesia albulata, Schiff, from Switzerland, Kent, IS". Devon, 

 Dumbarton, Rannoch, and the Shetland Isles, and contributed some interesting notes 

 on the different forms exhibited. The President having briefly referred to the sug- 

 gested publication by the Society of a list of the fauna and flora of certain of the 

 southern counties of England, Mr. J. T. Carrington proposed the following 

 resolution : — " That as no complete list of the fauna and flora of the southern 

 counties of England exists, this meeting resolves that the Council of the South 

 London Entomological and Natural History Society be requested to organize the 

 collection and publication of the material for such lists, under the auspices of this 

 Society, of those counties which shall be agreed upon." Mr. Eley seconded the 

 resolution which was then put to the meeting and carried unanimously. — H. W. 

 Baeeer, W. a. Peaece, Hon. Sees. 



Entomological Society of Lomdon, February 3rd, 1886 : R. McLachlan, 

 Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President appointed Mr. F. DuCane Godman, Mr. Stainton, and Mr. J. J. 

 Weir, Vice-Presidents for the year. 



Dr. Livett, Lieut. Q-oodrich, Mr. Eustace Bankes, and Mr. F. Enock (formerly 

 a subscriber), were elected ordinary Fellows, and Mons. E. L. Ragonot (ex-president 

 of the Societe Entomologique de France) a foreign Fellow. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited female scales of Coccidae of the genus 

 Eriopeltis, possibly different from E.festucce (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., a7i(e p. 168). Mr- 

 E. A. Fitch remarked that E.festucce had been recorded as British at a meeting of 

 the Society held about thirty years ago. 



Mr. Douglas sent for exbibition leaves of Fuonymus japonicus, received from 

 M. Lichtenstein, infested by Chionaspis euovymi (Comstock), first noticed in the 

 United States, but which occurred in great numbers at Montpellier and Nimes, and 

 always destroyed the shrubs attacked by it. The number of S scales was quite out 

 of proportion to the ? . M. Lichtenstein expressed a hope that the insect did not 

 occur in Britain. 



The President exhibited specimens of Tettix australis, Walker, received from 

 Mr. A. S. Olliff of the Sydney Museum, who had captured them at the river Nepean 

 (N.S.W.) ; Mr. Olliff stated that the insect was decidedly sub-aquatic ; he had found 

 the insects not only on the surface of pools, but also eight or ten inches below the 

 surface on the stems of water-plants, and they descended when approached. The 

 President remarked on the interesting nature of this exhibition, and stated as his 



