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The new President, Mr. E. -J. Bunnefct, then took the chair, and 

 votes of thanks were passed to the retiring Officers and Council. 



Major C. E. Lyles, 6, Hyde Park Mansions, and Mr. J. H. Adkin, 

 Whitecliff Road, Purley, were elected members. 



Mr. C. Craufurd exhibited an Ai/lah nrtirac with a curious 

 deficiency of colour in two streaks on the hind-margin of the hind- 

 wings ; the scaling was perfect. 



Fehruar}/ 9tli. — New Member. — Miss Alice K. Lock, 77, Grove 

 Hill Road, S.E., was elected a member. 



Second brood of B. selene. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a second 

 brood series of BrcnthU selene from Abbot's Wood, Sussex, at end of 

 July and in August. 



Racial series of B. selene. — Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone, a large 

 form of the same species, racial in the Isle of Arran, and a series of a 

 small race from Headly ; and an aberrant form of Taeniocampa incerta, 

 resembling both L. iiiunda and L. (/racilis. 



The very local H. sponsa in Kent. — Mr. H. W. Andrews, the 

 Anthomyiid (Dip.), Hylephila sponsa, said to be rare, but common in 

 Kent, and species of local Limnophora. 



A. Galeodes from Cape Town. — Mr. H. Moore, a large species of 

 Galeodes from Cape Town, of a genus usually placed between the spiders 

 and the mites, it attacks small birds, lizards, etc., and is venomous. 



Aberrations of B. coryli. — Mr. Blenkarn, Crt/ptocephalus coryli 

 from Mickleham, with a spot on each elytra, and the racial form of 

 Philodecta laticollis from Killarney, December, 1921. 



Aberrations of British Lepidoptera. — Mr. Frohawk, A(/lais 

 urticae, suffused very considerably ; Pieris napi, g asymmetrical 

 central wing spot, R. almost missing, L. unusually large ; Ari/i/nnts 

 paiihia, g central markings much suffused ; Enchlo'e cardaniines, g 

 and ? with discal spots in hindwings ; P. brassicoe, a series of 

 nvjronotata with well developed discal spot ; also a fine pencil sketch 

 of a hybrid pheasant and grouse. 



The dodder of the gobse. — Mr. Enefer, Cnscnta epithyniimi, the 

 dodder of the gorse, an anastomose specimen of oak, and a section of 

 the mistletoe on apple. 



February 23/7/. — New Member.— Mr. Cheeseman, 30, Clayton Road, 

 S.E., was elected a member. 



Lantern slides exhibited. — An Exhibition of Lantern Slides by 

 members. 



Mr. Hugh Main, slides illustrating the latest results of colour 

 photography, a series ot slides illustrating the life-history of the field- 

 cricket and of the wolf spider Ijjcosa. 



Mr. Frisby, sUdes showing the Serotine Bat, nests of water-fowl, 

 and British orchids in situ. 



The President, slides of the liverwort showing remarkable pro- 

 liferous growth, of " fairy flies," and of the tracheae of a beetle. 



Mr. Syms, slides of the ova of the more local species of British 

 butterflies. 



