80 IMarcb, 1895. 



Presidents, C. G-. Barrett, F.E.S., and J. Henderson ; Treasurer, E. Adkin, F.E.S. ; 

 Librarian, H. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; Curator, W. West, Greenwich ; Hon. Secretaries, 

 Stanley Edwards, F.L.S. (Corresponding), and H. J. Turner, F.E.S. (Reporting). 

 Council:— T. E. Billups, F.E.S., C. A. Briggs, F.E.S., J. H. Carpenter, C. Fenn, 

 F.E.S., F. E. Filer, W. Mansbridge, F.E.S., and W. A. Pearce. 



In the absence of Mr. Step, the retiring President, Mr. Hall read the Annual 

 Address, which had been forwarded to him. 



February 14th, 1895.— T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Furneaux, F.R.G-.S., of Ommaney Eoad, New Cross, was elected a 

 Member. 



Mr. Peach exhibited a specimen of the genus Xanthia, said to be X. ocellaris, 

 Bork., but which many present considered merely a var. oi X.gilvago, Esp.; it was from 

 Wimbledon. Mr. Adkin, Vanessa urticce, L., var. from Sutherland and N. Ireland, 

 and commented upon the similarity of these to the Japanese form called V. connexa, 

 Butl. ; he also exhibited series of ZygcBna filipendidce from Sutherland, taken 2000 

 feet above the sea : a discussion ensued. Mr. Williams, series of A. cardamines , L., 

 with forms which some authorities term A. Alberii, and read notes thereon. — H. J. 

 TuENER, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: February 6th, 1895. — Professor 

 Eaphael Meldola, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated the Eight Hon. Lord Wal- 

 singham, F.E.S., Mr. Henry John Elwes, F.L.S. , and Professor Edward B. Poulton, 

 F.E.S., Vice-Presidents of the Society for the Session 1895 — 6. 



Mr. Charles Nicholson, of 202, Evering Eoad, Clapton, N.E., was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford made some remarks regarding Mons. Brongniart's 

 donation to the library of his monograph, entitled, " Eecherches pour servir h 

 I'histoire des Insectes Fossiles des Temps Primaires." Mr. Blandford also called 

 attention to figures of pupae of species of Spalgis {Lyccenidai), in the Journal of 

 the Bombay Natural History Society. A discussion followed, in which Mr. Hampson 

 and Mr. McLachlan took part. Canon Fowler exhibited, on belialf of Mr. C. A. 

 Myers, an unusually fine specimen of Sphceria Sobertsi, growing from the prothorax 

 of an underground larva of an Hepialus, supposed to be H. virescens, irom New 

 Zealand. Mr. McLachlan said that there was a doubt whether the caterpillar 

 should be referred to this species. Mr. Blandford stated that the French Grovern- 

 ment had set aside a section of the Pasteur Institute at Paris for the study of 

 entomophagous fungi. Prof. L. C. Miall, F.E.S., and Mr. N.Walker, communicated 

 a paper, entitled, " On the Life-History of Pericoma canescens (Psychodidee)," with 

 an Appendix by Baron Osten-Sacken. Herr Jacoby read a paper, entitled, " Con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera." Dr. D. Sharp 

 remarked that Erichson began the " Insekten Deutschlands " nearly fifty years ago, 

 and as he was engaged on a classification of the Coleoptera of the World, he included 

 a considerable number of exotic species in his work. Mr. G. F. Hampson read a 

 paper, entitled, " Descriptions of New Heterocera from India." — W. W. Fowlee, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



