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Dixey, some cocoons and perfect imagines of hybrid Satumiids, in- 

 cluding female and male of S. pavonia, L. x S. pyri, Scheff., with 

 added specimens of both sexes of the parent forms for comparison, 

 the cross product resembling a large S. pavonia rather tban a 

 small S. pyri. The exhibit further included three males and three 

 females, of which the female parent was S. pavonia and the male 

 parent a hybrid between S. pavonia male and S. spini female, viz. the 

 cross product to which Professor Standfuss has given the name S. bovne- 

 manni. These six individuals had been reared from ova supplied by him, 

 aud Dr. Dixey gave an account of their life-history. The remaining 

 four examples of the hybrid = 8. schaufussi disclosed far less strongly 

 marked sexual differences tban in S. pavonia. — Professor E. B. Poulton, 

 F.R.S., groups of synaposematic Hymenoptera and Diptera captured 

 by Mr. A. H. Hamm ; three broken specimens of Papilio hesperus, taken 

 at Entebbe in 1903, by Mr. C. A. Wiggins, showing that the tails of a 

 Papilio, if untouched by enemies, can endure a great deal of wear ; and 

 Nymphaline butterflies from Northern China, apparently mimetic of the 

 male Hypolimnas misippus, which is not known to occur in that region. 

 The President, a number of examples of Pyvameis atalanta and a 

 pair of Aglaias urtica, illustrating the effects of cold season breeding, 

 by Mr. Harwood of Colchester. — Mrs. De la B. Nicholl read a paper 

 on " Butterfly-hunting in British Columbia and Cauada," illustrated 

 by numerous examples of the species captured during the summer of 

 1904. — Sir George Hampson, B.A., F.Z.S., communicated a paper on 

 " Three Remarkable New Genera of Micro-Lepidoptera." — Mr. Herbert 

 Druce, F.LS., F.Z.S., a paper entitled "Descriptions of Some New 

 Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. Harold Cookson in 

 Northern Rhodesia in 1903-4 ; LycEeuidse and Hesperiida? by Hamilton 

 H. Druce, F.Z.S."— Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., D.C.L., a paper 

 entitled "Descriptions of Some New Species of Satyridre from South 

 America." — Mr. W. L. Distant, a paper entitled, " Additions to a 

 Knowledge of the Homopterous Family of Cicadidae." — H. Rowland- 

 Brown, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 February 9th, 1905.— Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the 

 cbair. — A special exhibition of Hybevnia defoliaria males had been 

 arranged, and series were shown by Messrs. Rayward, Pratt, Crow, 

 Browne, Hickman, Harrison, Main, Goulton, and Tonge. The variation 

 ranged from uniformly dark forms to uniformly light ones, with con- 

 siderable variation in widths and colour of the transverse markings. 

 It was noted that the males migrated in large numbers, but no well 

 ascertained facts were known as to the distribution of the females. — 

 Mr. Rayward. liviug females of H. rupicapraria from Wallington. — 

 Mr. Crow, on behalf of Mr. Hickman, the whole of the imagines and 

 varieties bred from the brood of Arctia caia, referred to at the Exhibition 

 of Varieties in November, 1904. Several extreme forms had scarcely 

 any white or light markings, and yet the usually dark markings ap- 

 peared through a veil of semitransparent smoky scales. There were no 

 intermediates. — Mr. Kaye, two forms of the rare Heliconius pasithoe 

 from the Demarara River. — Mr. Adkin, a series of Lyccena (Cupido) 

 minima, taken last year at Eastbourne, and showing an unusual 

 amount of blue iu the males. — Mr. South, a long series of very varied 



