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Mr. C. B. Smith, and a fine irradiated variety of the underside 

 of L. icarus by Mr. A. C. Smith. This being the annual 

 meeting, the Secretary read the report of the council, from 

 which it appeared that during the year fifty-one members 

 had been elected. The Treasurer read an abstract of the 

 accounts, showing a balance to the Society's credit. The 

 election of ofiicers for 1888 was then taken, with the following 

 results : — Mr. T. R, Billups, President ; Mr. John T. Carrington, 

 Vice-President; Mr. E. Step, Hon. Treasurer; Mr. D. J. Rice, 

 Hon. Librarian ; Mr. W. West (Greenwich), Hon. Curator ; Mr. 

 H. W. Barber, Hon. Secretary; Mr. H.J. Turner, Hon. Assistant 

 Secretary. Messrs. E. Adkin, T. W. Hall, Pt. South, W. H. Tug- 

 well, J. W. Tutt, J. E. Wellman, and J. Jenner Weir, Council. 



January 12, 1888. T. R. Billups, President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. F. W. Hawes, C. E. Runnacles, and A. E. D. Gould 

 were elected members. Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited Cicadetta 

 hcematodes, and stated that Mr. C. Gulliver had taken a dozen 

 during the past season in the New Forest; he (Mr. Weir) had no 

 recollection of more than two or three having been taken in any 

 one year before ; out of the twelve taken there was only one 

 male, and Mr. Weir contributed notes as to this. Mr. Tugwell 

 showed specimens of Dianthoecia ccesia from Germany, and the 

 dark variety from the Isle of Man ; also continental examples of 

 reputed and rai'e species of British Lepidoptera, among which 

 was a specimen of Lythr'ia purpuraria, which Mr. Tugwell stated 

 was a species that had no right to be in the British list. Mr. Car- 

 rington said he knew of two undoubted English examples, both of 

 which were taken in the neighbourhood of York, and one of them 

 he saw alive ; but although he, Mr. Prest, and many other ento- 

 mologists had worked the same district for years, no other cap- 

 tures of the species had been made. Mr. Dobson exhibited 

 Agriopis aprilina, and a short discussion took place as to the 

 reason of the colour in this species fading so quickly when com- 

 pared with the colour of Moma orion, and Geometra papilionaria. 

 Mr. Tutt contributed remarks on the reputed capture of Acidalia 

 strigaria in Kent, and suggested that they might have been small 

 specimens of A. remutaria. Mr. R. Adkin then read his Presi- 

 dential Address for 1887, for which a vote of thanks was moved 

 by Mr. Billups, seconded by Mr. T. W. Hall, and carried unani- 

 mously. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



