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to the losses by death during the year of several Fellows of the Society 

 and other Entomologists, special mention being made of Prof. H. A. 

 Hagen, M.D., the Eev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A., Mr. A. C. Horner, 

 M.R.C.S., Prof. J. Wood-Mason, the Eev. Henry Burney, M.A., Mr. 

 J. C. Bowring, F.L.S., the Rev. F. 0. Morris, B.A., Mr. J. Batty, Mr. 

 Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S., Herr Eduard Honrath, and Dr. Adolph 

 Bpeyer. A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was pro- 

 posed by Colonel Swinhoe, seconded by Mr. Jenner Weir, and carried 

 unanimously. Mr. Merrifield replied for the President. Lord Walsing- 

 ham proposed a vote of thanks to the Officers of the Society ; this was 

 seconded by Mr. Waterhouse, and carried unanimously. Mr. McLachlan 

 and Mr. Goss replied, and the proceedings terminated. — H. Goss, 

 Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 November 2Srd, 1893. — J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. Mr. Carpenter exhibited captured specimens of An/i/nnis paphia, 

 from the New Forest, one male and one female having a portion of the 

 right primary in each with a whitish ground ; also a non-metallic 

 intermediate var. valesina. Mr. Frohawk, specimens of ^. paphia and 

 var. valesina which had emerged on Nov. 20th and 21st, having been 

 kept at the ordinary temperature. He also reported having bred 

 Vanessa atalanta this month, and that the Apatura iris of Mr. Watson 

 had emerged, but was a cripple. A long discussion ensued regarding 

 the second broods of the Argynnidfe, the metamorphoses, which usually 

 take eight or nine months, being in these cases completed in as many 

 weeks, the general opinion being, however, that temperature by itself 

 had very little influence. Mr. Sauze, types of Coleoptera taken by 

 himself this year. Mr. Weir, Lyccena trochilus from the South African 

 Republic, sent by Dr. Rendall, LyccBna exilis taken at Las Cruces by 

 Prof. Cockerell, and our British Lyccena minima for comparison. He 

 remarked on the undesirability of giving comparative names, the two 

 former species measuring 15 mm. in expanse of wings, while the latter 

 varied from 17 mm. to 22 mm. Mr. Adkin, two specimens of Chnjso- 

 phanus [Pob/ommatus) phkcas ; in one the copper baud of the hind 

 wings was all but obliterated, and in the other represented by narrow 

 streaks on the wing rays. 



December lith. — The President in the chair. Mr. South exhibited 

 continental specimens of Arr/ynnis adippe var. cleodo.va and var. chloro- 

 dippe, both from South Europe; a variety of Thecla rubi, from Ireland, 

 the upper side of which was very dark, while there was no green on the 

 under side, yet the white spots were strongly developed; also Syrichthus 

 malvcB var. tarus, from Devon, where it was stated to be not uncommon. 

 Mr. Pearce, a long series of Chrysophanus hypophkcas, series of Colias 

 philodice with pale var. of the female, Terias nicippe with yellow form 

 of male, Pieris rapce, and various species of Lyc£enid», all from Alle- 

 ghany Co., U.S.A. ; also Nathalis iole from Colorado. A discussion 

 ensued as to whether C. hypophlceas should be considered a species. 

 Mr. Weir, Planema euryta, an Acrteine butterfly in which the sexes 

 differed materially in colour and still more in shape, yet in each of 

 these respects it was mimicked by the corresponding sexes of Pseudu' 

 craa nirce, a Nymphaline species, all from the Cameroons. Mr. 

 Turner, a long bred series of Thera juniperata, arranged to show the 



