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two to the Pliycitidce. Dr. Sharp, Mr. McLachlan, Dr. Mason, 

 and Mr. E. B. Poulton took part in the discussion which ensued. 

 — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— April 2Qth, 1888. T. R. Billups, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. Messrs. J. E. Pearce and J. Pearce were elected 

 members. Mr. Ad3'e exhibited Asphalia ridens, and varieties of 

 Tceniocampa munda. Mr. Lea, small specimens of llyhernia 

 leucopluearia from Eichmond Park, and commented on their size. 

 Mr. Dobson, a specimen of SmerintJms tilice, with the lower part 

 of the central band of the superior wings absent. Mr. Dennis, 

 three streaked varieties of Spilosoma lubricipeda, and a similar 

 var. of S. menthastri taken in his garden at Kingsland. Mr. T. 

 Pi. Billups, a living specimen of the genus Pelopmis, or sand- 

 wasps, from Honduras ; also a species of Blattidse, Paratrupes 

 elegans, from South America. Mr. J. Jenner Weir read a com- 

 munication from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, referring to his note on 

 the origin of Qonepteryx cleopatra and G. rliamni, read at the 

 meeting on the 8th of March last ; Mr. Cockerell being of opinion 

 that G. cleopatra and G. rliamni are climatic forms of one species. 

 Mr. Weir said, seeing that G. rhamni and G. cleopatra existed 

 over a large part of Europe in the same districts, and had 

 synchronous appearance in the latter end of the summer and 

 again after hybernation in the spring, he was unable to accept 

 Mr. Cockerell's ingenious theory of the origin of the two species. 

 Mr. J. W. Slater read a paper on " Sanitary and Antisanitary 

 Services of Nature." 



May lOth, 1888. The President in the chair. Mr. W. Martin 

 was elected a member. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited full-fed larv£e of 

 Ephestia kuhniella. Mr. Cooper said he had taken this moth very 

 freely in a bakery at Leytonstone, and had found the larvee feeding 

 in great numbers ; there was very little flour stored in the bakery, 

 but tlie larvae fed on the dust collected on the beams. He had 

 taken odd specimens of the species for the last four years. Mr. 

 Billups, living examples of Hydaticus seminiger. Tlie remainder 

 of the evening was devoted to the exhibition of microscopical 

 objects, many members of the South London Microscopical 

 Society assisting. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



