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of the Society :— Miss Blanche A. Conoy, The Poplars, Pucklechurch, 

 Glos. ; Messrs. Lachlan Gibb, 38, Blackheath Park, Blackheath, S.E. ; 

 Gerald F. Hill, Govt. Entomologist, Northern Territory, South 

 Austraha, Port Darwin, N.T.S.A. ; Lowell Mason, 22 and 23, Club 

 Arcade, Durban, Natal. It was announced that the Council had 

 nominated Messrs. J. H. Durrant, L. B. Prout, and C. 0. Water- 

 house, to act as the representatives of the Society on the National 

 Committee on Nomenclature. The Council also recommended the 

 appointment of a permanent Nomenclature Committee for the 

 Society itself, and suggested that it should consist of the three 

 representatives of the Society on the National Committee, the 

 British representative on the International Committee, the Secretary 

 of the Society, and two elected members ; the Council also proposed 

 the names of Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker and Dr. K. Jordan as the 

 elected members. No alternative was suggested, and the recom- 

 mendations of the Council were unanimously adopted. The present 

 Committee of the Society therefore consists of the following Fellows:— 

 Messrs. G. T. Bethune-Baker, J. H. Durrant, C. J. Gahan, Dr. K. 

 Jordan, Messrs. L. B. Prout, C. 0. Waterhouse, and the Kev. G. 

 Wheeler.— The Hon. N. Charles Eothschild brought before the 

 notice of the meeting a recently formed society — the Society for the 

 Promotion of Nature Reserves, and briefly outlined its objects. — Mr. 

 J. E. Collin, on behalf of Lt.-Col. C. G. Nurse, three specimens of a 

 peculiar insect which Mr. G. C. Champion had identified as a species 

 of Myiodites, a heteromerous Coleopteron, captured by Col. Nurse at 

 Quetta (India) in 1902.— Mr. O. E. Janson, specimens of a curious 

 form of staphyHnid beetle from South Brazil, apparently the Ecito- 

 morpha arachnoides, Wassm.— Mr. L. B. Prout, a series of Larentia 

 citrata, L., from Iceland.— Dr. K. Jordan, a species of Eurytoma, an 

 almond-feeding Chalcid, together with its Hve chrysalis, which he 

 had received from Cyprus, where the species does extensive damage 

 in the almond plantations.— Mr. R. Adkin, specimens of T. jMllescen- 

 tella that he had reared in January last from larva3 found feeding in 

 a bale of hare's hair received from Brandon, Suffolk, in the previous 

 November.— Prof. Poulton, examples of specimens belonging to 

 various distasteful lepidopterous groups, exhibiting "disabling in- 

 juries." 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— Febntary 26th, 1913.- -Mr. A. E.Tonge, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited butterflies collected in the 

 Balkans in 1912, including Pieris manni, P. ergane, AntJiocharis belia, 

 Pontia daplidice, Leptosia sinapis, Colias edusa, and G. hyale, and 

 aberrant forms of each species.— Mr. Colthrup, a specimen of Vanessa 

 io, found hybernating in a room in Dulwich.— Mr. Tonge, a specimen 

 of Sphinx ligustri, in which the pink coloration was replaced by white. 

 — Mr. Turner, an aberration of Melitaa didyma, in which the black 

 markings were for the most part of a pale slate colour, and various 

 forms of the female of this species. — Mr. Frohawk, a bred series of 

 Lampides bceticus of unusually large size. The larvae fed upon green 

 peas. He also showed drawings of the protective resting positions 

 of various species of Lepidoptera. 



