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male, taken in the Fern House, and a red form, hermaphrodites, 

 from the Pahn House. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten exhibited series of the 

 following rare British Heterocera, viz. (a) Dianthcecia luteago var. 

 harrettii, bred 1910, from Devon larvae; {h) Tapinostola extrevia, from 

 Northamptonshire larvae, July, 1910 ; (c) T. hellmanni, from larvae 

 taken in Wicken Fen, June, 1910 ; and {d) a pale variety of Meliana 

 flammea, from larvae collected in the Norfolk Broads, with a type- 

 specimen for comparison. — Mr. H. Eowland-Brown exhibited, 

 together with typical examples for comparison, two fine melanic 

 variations of Melitcea parthenie, Bork., one of which resembled 

 ab. rhoio, Oberthur (Lepid. Comparee, fasc. iv.), taken at 2800 ft. 

 at Clelles, Isere, last July ; and also two very remarkable black 

 aberrations of M. varia, taken by him in company with Mr. 

 C. J. Johnson, in 1907, at the top of the Simplon Pass. — Mr. H. C. J. 

 Druce brought for exhibition a Nymphaline butterfly from the Hima- 

 layas, Parliestina jermyni, n. sp., with Aporia agathon var. pliryxe, 

 the Pierid it mimics closely — the subject of a paper read by him. — Mr. 

 H. St. J. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., read a paper entitled " Further Obser- 

 vations on Temporary Social Parasitism and Slavery in Ants." — Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper on " Two New Species of 

 Lyc(B}iopsis from Sarawak, Borneo." — M. Ernest Olivier communicated 

 a paper entitled "Description of Two New Species of Luciola in the 

 Collection of Mr. H. E. Andre wes." — H. Eowland-Bkown, M.A., 

 Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History 

 Society.— Oc^. IWi, 1910.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a series of the Homopteron, 

 Linotettix stictoyala, beaten from tamarisk at Deal. It was 

 gradually extending its range. — Mr. Colthrup, the nest of the Eeed 

 Warbler, suspended among a bunch of reeds.— Mr. Tonge, photo- 

 graphs of the young larvae of Cclastriiia aryiolus attacking iv}^ buds, 

 and Vanessci io and Pynimeis atalanta at rest. — Mr. Newman, melanic 

 example of Bryopliila perla taken at Folkestone, a suffused pink 

 specimen of Antliroccra trifolii, an example of Spilosovia mcntliadri 

 with joined up spots approaching var. ?rrt/A:6'r/, several Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata: (1) black markings especially wanting on all wings; (2) yellow 

 marking much increased in area and black decreased, and (3) a very 

 dark specimen, the black areas united and enlarged. — Mr. Adkin, a 

 series of Cossus Ugniperda from Lewisham, and read notes on the 

 occurrence and pupation of the species. — Mr. Turner, living bred 

 examples of Lyonctia clcrckclla and its mine in a birch leaf with 

 the swung silken cradle in which the larva turned to pupa. — Mr. 

 Moore, a variety of Liinnas clirysippus var. alcippus, in which the 

 apical white dot is duplicated, and Acrcsa encedon ab. alcippina from 

 the same locality. Northern Nigeria. — Mr. Main, newly hatched larvae 

 of the glow-worm. — Dr. Hodgson, an example of Callophrys ricbi with 

 xanthic areas on the disc of all the wings, specimens of Nemeobius 

 lucina : (1) a female in which the yellow area was much increased at 

 the expense of the black ; (2) a male in which the opposite was very 

 strongly marked, a black example of A. trifolii, the only one obtained 

 this year, and one with extreme red suffusion. — Mr. Kay ward, ova of 



