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and an undetermined species, probably new, from tbe Cameroons. — 

 Professor Poulton exhibited the three largest Lycaenidae captm-ed by 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn, and suggested that an undetermined pupa in 

 the nest of CEcophyUa might possibly belong to one of them. He 

 pointed out, however, that all three were placed among the Lipteninae, 

 while the problematical pupa bore much resemblance to a smaller 

 one which produced an imago belonging to the Lycaeninae. The 

 three lai'ge species were Epitola Jionorius, F., male and female, 



E. postJmmus, F., male, and Hewitsonia boisduvali, Hew., male and 

 female. Mr. Lamborn's notes on the two females showed a remark- 

 able degree of sluggishness. — Professor Poulton exhibited a male 

 Amauris egialea, Cram., recently received from Mr. W. A. Lamborn. 

 The "paper" enclosing the specimen bore the following note: — 

 " 8 a.m. Half mile [from Oni clearing] ; Jan. 30th, 1912. Observed 

 flying up and down. It then settled on upper surface of leaf and 

 started to pass its brushes to and fro over its scent-patches, exactly 

 as Amauris niavius did. Wings were rather over-flexed." Dr. 



F. A. Dixey and Professor Kellogg, of California, commented on this 

 exhibit. — George Wheeler, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— i^c&rz^ar?/ 8th, 1912.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited an aberration of Pyrameis 

 atcdanta with a flesh-coloured band on the fore wing.^ — Mr. Newman, 

 a series of Ephyra annulata var. obsoleta, in which the discoidal 

 rings on the fore wings were absent. — Messrs. Mitford, Edwards, 

 Coxhead, and West (Ashtead), exhibited slides under the microscope. 



February 22ud. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Andrews, a 

 number of species of the Trypetidae family of the Diptera, all from 

 Milford Haven. — Mr. Turner, a dwarf example of Golias edusa from 

 near Villeneuve, measuring 32 mm. in expanse. — Mr. Sheldon, the 

 Brenthids he took last year in Lapland, B.frigga, B.frieja, B. polaris, 

 &c., and gave full notes on their characteristics and habits. 



March 28th.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 — Mr. C. F. Lloyd, of Ashford Common, Middlesex, was elected 

 a member. — Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited ova of Amphidasys strataria 

 laid by a female with which he had assembled five males. — Mr. 

 West, the specimen of Psylla albipes found by him at Box Hill in 

 October last, and new to the British list of Hemiptera. — Mr. 

 Newman, living examples of Melitaa aurinia, bred at a temperature 

 of sixty to seventy degrees, and full-fed larvae of Dryas paphia fed 

 under similar conditions. He called attention to the extreme 

 scarcity of larviE of Arctia caia and of Abraxas grossulariata. Mr. 

 W. G. Sheldon, specimen of Leptosia sinapiis and L. dup)oncheli, with 

 the summer broods of the same, var. diniensis and var. cestiva 

 respectively, and pointed out that the British summer form of the 

 former species was an intermediate form. — Mr. R. Adkin, a specimen 

 of Iladena porphyrea (satura), and read a series of historical and 

 critical notes on the species. — Mr. Andrews, the Syrphid >S'. arcticus, 

 taken at Chattenden on March 12th. — Mr. Ashdown, a specimen of 

 Mysia oblongo-guttata ab. nigro-guttata, from Oxshott, in May, 1911, 

 and recently described as new. — Mr. Sich, for Mr. G. B. Routledge, a 



