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the early stages of Eriocephala caltheUa.'' Mr. Hampson and the 

 President made some remarks on the subject of the paper, Mr. 

 Hamilton H. Druce read a paper entitled " Description of the female 

 oi Hypochrysops scintillans, Butl." The Rev. Dr. Walker communicated 

 a paper by Mr. R. H. F. Rippon, entitled " Description of a variety of 

 Ornithoptera [Piiawoj)tera) urvilliana." 



Feb. 28th. — Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. Professor August Forel, M.D., of the University of 

 Ziirich, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of the late Professor H. A. Hagen, M.D. 

 Mr. John Pratt, of the Cedars, New Barnet, and Mr. Michael Yeatman 

 Woolf, of 1, Marlborough Place, St. John's Wood, N.W., were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. Mr. G. C. Champion called attention to a 

 supposed' new Longicorn beetle, described and figured by Herr A. F. 

 Nonfried, of Rakonitz, Bohemia, under the name of Callipogon fried- 

 Idnderi, in the Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, p. 22. He said that the 

 supposed characters of the insect were due to the fact that the head 

 had been gummed on upside down ! He also exhibited an extensive 

 collection of Coleoptera and Hemiptera-Heteroptera made by himself 

 in the island of Corsica in May and June last. The Rev. Theodore 

 Wood exhibited a variety of Saturnia carpini, with semi-transparent 

 wings, a large proportion of the scales being apparently absent, bred 

 with several examples of the type-form at Baldock, Herts ; also a pale 

 variety of Sinerinthns populi, which was said to have been bred, with 

 several similar specimens, from larvae marked with rows of red spots on 

 both sides. Mr. R. South exhibited a variety of Aryynnis aylaia, ap- 

 proaching the form known as var. charloUa, and a variety of Euchelia 

 jacobcBCB, in which the crimson costal streak was continued along the outer 

 margin almost to the inner margin, taken by Mr. Fowler at Ringwood, 

 Hants, in 1893; a variety of Aryxjnnis euphrosyne, taken by Mr. Mead in 

 Epping Forest in 1893 ; and a series of black and other forms 

 of Phigalia pedaria, bred during the present year from a black female 

 captured last year by Mr. Rose, of Barnsley. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, 

 for Mr. C. B. Taylor, of Jamaica, a beautifully coloured drawing of the 

 larva of Papilio homerus, Fab. Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited drawings 

 showing the complete life-history of Argynnis aylaia and A. adippe, 

 every stage being figured ; also enlarged drawings of the segments 

 of the larvsB in their first and last stages, showing the remarkable 

 difference in structure. Mr. Merrifield commented on the beauty of 

 the drawings. Mr. G. C. Champion read a paper entitled " On the 

 TenebrionidcB collected in Australia and Tasmania by Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 R.N., during the voyage of H.M. Ship ' Penguin,' with descriptions of 

 new genera and species " ; and he exhibited the specimens comprised 

 in the collection. Mr. J. J. Walker and Colonel Swinhoe made 

 some remarks on the paper. Mr. Champion also read a paper 

 entitled " An Entomological Excursion to Corsica," in which he 

 described an expedition to the mountains of that island in May and 

 June, 1893, in company with Mr. R. S. Standen, Mr. A. H. Jones, 

 Colonel Yerbury, R.A., Mr. Lemann, Mr. Raine, and others. Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin, Colonel Yerbury, and Colonel Swinhoe took part in the 

 discussion which ensued. Mr. Edward Saunders communicated a 

 paper entitled " A List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera collected by Mr, 



