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sent to the Colonial Exhibition. Mr. W. White read a paper 

 on " Experiments upon the Colour-relation between the pupse 

 of Pieris rapce and their immediate surroundings," which 

 comprised a detailed account and discussion of a series of 

 observations carried on, at the author's instigation, by Mr. G. C. 

 Griffiths, of Bristol. The various experiments were intended to 

 act as a further test of the conclusions anived at by Mr. E. B. 

 Poulton in his paper on the subject recently published in the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society ; and to effect this object 

 difl'erent and additional influences had been brought to bear on 

 these pupge, so that an analogy might be drawn between the two 

 sets of results. Mr. Poulton, Lord Walsingham, Mr. Jacoby, Dr. 

 Sharp, Mr. White, and others took part in the discussion which 

 ensued. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— FeZ^rwar^ 23r(i, 1888. T. R. Billups, F.E.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. Mr. Routledge exhibited a number of pre- 

 served lepidopterous larvae. The Secretary read a paper, " Notes 

 on the Geode^Jhaga in Ireland," contributed by the Bev. W. F. 

 Johnson, of Armagh. The author said that the number of 

 species of Geodepliaga at present known to occur in Ireland was 

 only some 140, out of 300 and odd species in the British List. 

 This apparent disproportion of numbers arose from the fact that 

 Ireland had never been properly worked for Coleoptera. Con- 

 sequently it might reasonably be supposed that a more thorough 

 investigation would raise the number in the present list very 

 considerably. That such an undertaking would be amply 

 rewarded might be gathered from the fact that he had single- 

 handed taken in the Armagh district, in the four years since he 

 began to work at the Coleoptera, upwards of seventy-six species 

 of Geodepliaga, many of which had not been previously recorded 

 as Irish. He, however, felt sure that if the south and west, the 

 sea-coasts and the mountains were searched by earnest workers, 

 not only would most of the gaps in the present list be filled, 

 but probably many new species would be added to the Coleoptera 

 of the British Isles. A list of the species captured, with 

 observations thereon, followed. An exhibition of microscopical 

 objects was then given : Messrs. Dadswell, Teriy, Macer, Coombs, 

 Shaw, Turner, Adkin, West, Tutt, Medland, and others exhibited. 



