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deaths of Mr. Spence, the Baron de Selys-Longchauips, Mr. Blatch, 

 Major George Cockle, Mr. Philip Crowley, Lord Dormer, Mr. J. H. 

 Leech, Dr. W. H. Lowe, Professor Joseph Mik, Professor Emile 

 Blanchard, Dr. Staudinger, and other entomologists. He then delivered 

 an address.— A vote of thanks to the outgoing President was proposed 

 by the Rev. Canon Fowler, seconded by Colonel Swinhoe, and carried. 

 — H. Goss and H. Rowland-Brown, Hun. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 November 8(/t.— The President in the chair. Tne Annual Exhibition 

 of Varieties was held on this evening, and was a most successful and 

 interesting meeting. Mr. B. Adkin, a bred Vanessx {EiKjoiiia) ixilt/cldorus 

 with a very pale ground colour ; a Tripluenajinibria having tlie black 

 band on the hind wings extending along the inner margin ; and 

 examples of (Jatocala pruniissn with paler upper wings, and hind wings 

 with narrow and straight median band. Mr. Wnikley, (Jatocahi nupta 

 var. carulescens, taken in August, 1892. Mr. R. Adkin, varieties of 

 Aniyiinis ayluia (1) with basal two-thirds black, except a yellow dis- 

 coidal spot (on the under side the silver spots were reduced to two on 

 each hind wing ; (2) with greenish blotch on both left wings, similar to 

 those frequently found in A. papliia; (3) with black spots on the central 

 portion of the under side run together into irregular bands ; (4) two 

 unusually daik females, one having an unpigniented patch on both 

 left wings ; also a long series of Melanippe, (/aliata, showing extreme 

 variation in the width and intensity of the band. Mr. Urwick, a 

 graduated series of variations of Abraj-as uhnata from smoke-coloured 

 to almost white ; hermaphrodite var. of Anpjnnts paplua, having the 

 right wings var, valezina, and the left wings ordinary male type, except 

 a few dark splashes ; a suffused var. of the same species ; several 

 vars. of Lithosia quadra showing variation in depth of colour and 

 absence of spots ; a sagittate variety of EpinepJiele liyperanthus and grey 

 forms of the same species ; a richly banded form of Kplujra jiendiilaria; 

 and sixteen very striking varieties of Chelonia plantayinis, showing a 

 complete gradation between the extreme form with pure white ground 

 colour and black markings to a much intensified form of var. hospita, 

 being an inbred series. Mr. Nevinson, Malacosonm castrensis showing 

 extreme variation ; a light form of Lasiucampa trifolii ; light and dark 

 forms of Cosmotriche potatoria ; Arctia caia with radiated black markings 

 on hind wings ; hybrids Pi/ipxra cnrtula X T. piyra ; light and dark 

 Hfiiotkis pdtiyera ; a banded form of Zonosoma Unetnia ; and extreme 

 light and dark forms of Melanippe Jiuctuata. Mr. F. M. B. Carr, an 

 example of Diloha candeocephala, in which the 8-mark is represented 

 by two small spots ; a Curemia propiiynnta (desiynata) with a very 

 narrow brown transverse band, and one without a trace of the flame 

 colour ; and a male Malacusovia viistria with scarcely any sign of the 

 pale transverse Imes. Mr. H. J. Turner, a series of Callimorpha hera, 

 taken in August at Dawlish, showing a complete gradation in colour 

 between the rich red of the type, through the terra-cotta form to the 

 brilliant yellow form, var. lutescens ; and a very long and varied series 

 of BrynpkUa viuralis {ylandi/era) from the same place, remarkable in 

 all the forms being dark, many of a rich yellow brown coloration, most 

 with black markings conspicuous, and in all the hind wings were dark, 

 and in some very dark. Mr. Adkin and Mr. Colthrup, series of the 



