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Professor Geldart, and a vote of 3ondolence with his relatives was 

 passed. 



Exhibits. -Dr. \\'aterstoa exhibited a Brazilian bee, Mcii/xma 

 ^nitellaris, Latr., taken near Briohton ; also a stem of Ariindo phrag- 

 iiiites, from which numerous pup;e of a Chalcid, (renioceritu flarhnanns,^ 

 Thorn., were projecting. Mr. H. Mace exhibited a number of butter- 

 Hies from the neighbourhood of Khartoum. Mr. R. Adiiin exhibited 

 hiaiihoia iiifjiilira var. venosa, new form, from Co. Tyrone, and com- 

 pared it with other races of the species. Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited 

 numerous insects of various orders from Piedmont, Italv. Professor 

 E. B. Poulton read some notes on the utilisation of derived plant pig- 

 ments in the colouring of Lepidoptera ; he also read a communication, 

 from the late Dr. T. A. Chapman on germinal " factors " and their in- 

 dependent existence and development. Mr. Hugh Main read some- 

 notes on the metamorphoses of ( hifiidfi/iaifiis launm, L., and illustrated 

 them with some remarkable lantern sHdes. 



Papers. — The following papers were read : — " Gynandromorphou& 

 I'hbeius ari/iis, L.," by Dr. E. A. Cockayne; "Butterflies from the 

 Nile," by Mr. H. Mace ; "Types of Orien-tal Carabidiw in the Stettin 

 Museum," by Mr. H. E. Andrews ; and " New Genera and Species of 

 Neotropical ('niculi<>ni<lite,'" by Dr. G. A. K. Marshall. 



The South Lonoon Entomological Society. 



December 8f/(. - New Member. — Mr. H. Worsley- Wood, of Acton, 

 was elected a member. 



Variation in D. mendica. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of 

 I'iaplwra mendica from Co. Cork and Co. Tyrone, Ireland, pointing 

 out the vai'. nistira males white and slightly spotted of the former 

 series, and namnig the latter series as var. YCnosa in which both sexes 

 were pale grey spotted with black and veins dark grey. 



Galls on ckab-apple roots. — Mr. Staniland, large galls on the 

 roots and branches of crab-apple from N. London formed by the woolly 

 aphis Sc/ii-^oiienra hnn'i/era. 



General exhibits. — Mr. H. Leeds, the heart of a cauliflower with 

 extensive fasciation and of a green coloration. 



Mr. 13. Adkin, specimens of Hventliis seleiie and H. eii/i/nosi/uc and 

 enquired what was the uppcrside difference if any. 



Mr. H. ^loore, a short series of Terac(di(s inmiceiis — Iwlaera from- 

 Nairobi. 



Mr. K. G. lUair, a I'ajiilin marhdnii without the red spot at the anal 

 angle of the forewing, and a veiy light form of ('raiiilnis /xisi'urlliis 

 from Tring. 



Mr. Bienkarn. the local Coleoptera, Pentartlnum /nittoui from 

 Killarney and Ijssodcma cmsor fro)ii Ranmore Common. 



Mr. Dennis, the oak "spangle" gall, Nenroterns 7iiniiisnu(l/s, from 

 N. Essex. 



Mr. Bnnnett, the var. ilduhledai/dria of A))ip/iidafiis brtitlaiiit with 

 an intermediate form from S.E. London. 



Mr. R. Adkin read a Report as the Society's Delegate to the 

 Conference of Corresponding Societies of the British Association. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 

 Xnvember 21st. — New Member. —Mr. J. E. Campbell-Tavlor 



