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remarks on mimicry. He also exhibited specimens of Leptomorphus Walkeri, 

 taken in tlie New Forest in September last, and Melanostoma ht/alinatum, Fin. 

 (male and female), from a series of eighteen also taken in the New Forest in the 

 latter part of August last. Mr. Adams further exhibited a specimen of Spilomj/ia 

 specioxa, Rossi, from the New Forest. Mr. Verrall, Dr. Sharp, and Colonel Yerbury 

 made some remarks on these species and their distribution. Mr. Eiiock exhibited, 

 and made remarks on, specimens of the mature male and female, and the nest of 

 Afi/pus piceu.i, the British Trap-door Spider ; also male and female specimens of 

 Andrena atriceps and males of A. fuloa. Mr. Tutt exhibited a long series of 143 

 males and 25 females of Erehia Xerine, captured in the Tyrol, partly in the Mendel 

 Pass and partly in the Val d'Ampezza, and read notes on the species, in which he 

 criticised the description of it, and the published observations as to its habits, by 

 Dr. Lang, Mr. Elwes, and others. Mr. Elwes made some remarks in reply. Lord 

 Walsingham exhibited the type and para-ty^es of Pseudodoxia Umnlus, Rghfr., 

 together with the larval cases and a preserved larva. His Lordship directed 

 attention to the curious truncate concave head of the larva which forms an 

 operculum to the tube, and remarked that the cases of this insect, which were 

 apparently not uncommon in Ceylon, the larva feeding on mosses and lichens, had 

 been known for some considerable time. So long ago as 1864 Mr. McLachlan found 

 them in the British Museum collection of cases of Caddis worms, and at that time, 

 being only acquainted with the ease, he was disposed to consider them the work of 

 one of the Leptoceridce. Tn 1889 Herr Rogenhofer gave the name Ftimea ? limulus 

 to the ease and its contents, and Mr. McLachlan agreed from the evidence then 

 adduced that the insect was Lepidopterous rather than Trichopterous. Mr. C. 

 J. Gahan exhibited, for Mr Turner, an imago and some larval forms of Ledra, 

 aurifa, Linn. Mr. G. C. Griffiths exhibited, and read notes on, hybrids between 

 Plati/samia Cecropia (male) and P. Gloveri (female), and between P. Cecropia (male) 

 and P. ceanotha (female) ; also between Actias Luna (male) and Selene (female). 

 He stated that these hybrids were bred by Miss Emily L. Morton of New Windsor, 

 New York, in 1891, 1892 and 1893. Lord Walsingham stated that at the last 

 Meeting of the Society some discussion ensued, after the reading of his paper, in 

 consequence of his liaving stated that Grapholithn, W., was pre-occupied by 

 Grapholitha, Hb. (Verz. Schm.), and he read a supplementai-y note on the subject 

 explaining the references in his paper. Dr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper, 

 entitled, " Notes on Seasonal Dimorphism in certain African Butterflies." — H. Goss, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



yovemher 6th, 1895. — Thk Right Honorable Lord Walsingham, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Cecil W. Barker, of Malvern, Natal, South Africa; and Lieutenant H. G. 

 R. Beavan, R.N. , of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, S.E. ; were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



Lord Walsingham announced the death of Mons. E. L. Ragonot, President of 

 the Entomolo<,'ical Society of France, and, since 1887, a Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society of London. He remarked that Mons. Ragonot was especially distinguished 

 by his knowledge of the Pht/cidtB, for his amiable personal qualities, and the 

 readiness he showed to assist other workers in the identification of species. The 



