SOCIETIES. 



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May 2nd. — H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Aigynnis ai/laia var. chaiiotta, 

 taken by the late Kev. James Watson in the New Forest in 1870. 

 Mr. J. A. Clark exhibited a curious variety of Chelonia caja, having 

 an extraordinary wedge-shaped marking extending from the outer 

 margin to the base of the left hind wing, and also, on the same wing, 

 a small spot which was brown and white in colour, and had the 

 appearance of having been taken from the fore wing and inserted in 

 the hind wing. The specimen was said to have been taken at Abbotts 

 Wood, Sussex, in July, 1892. Prof. E. B. Poulton exhibited living speci- 

 mens of the larvfe of Gastropacha quercifulia, surrounded respectively 

 during the early stages of growth by black twigs and lichen-coloured 

 twigs, the food being the same in both cases. All the larvae were 

 shown upon a white paper background, but examples of the sur- 

 rounding twigs which produced the change of colour were shown 

 beside each batch. Mr. Merrifield made some remarks on the subject. 

 Mr. E. Meyrick communicated a paper entitled " On Fijralidina from 

 the Malay Archipelago." Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper entitled " A 

 Supplemental List of the Longicorn Coleoptera obtained by Mr. J. J. 

 Walker, E.N., during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Penguin.' " — H. Goss & 

 W. W. Fowler, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 March 22nd, 189d.— E. Step, Esq., President, in the chair. The Rev. 

 J. E. Tarbat, The Common, Weybridge, was elected a member. Mr. 

 South exhibited a long bred series of Tceniocauipa gothica, L., including 

 many var. yothicina, which he had received from Mr. Rose, of 

 Barnsley ; all the specimens were large and of a deep red shade ; also 

 heads of Arundo phraymites, L., from Hampshire, wnich were infested 

 by a large dipterous larva. Mr. Turner, a long series of Hybernia 

 leucophcearia, Schifi'., taken this year, including a considerable number 

 of melanic forms. Mr. Adkin, a series of the same species from the 

 New Forest, the common form among them being the white-banded 

 one. Mr. Auld, a very large recently-bred female specimen of Ocneria 

 dispar, L. Mr. Sauze, a locust {^■Edipoda tartarica), captured at Brixton 

 among vegetables imported from Italy. Mr. Edwards, a number of 

 reptiles and other zoological specimens, which he had just received 

 from Penang. Several members noted that Tmiiocampa inunda, Esp., 

 Asphalia Jiavicornis, L., Diurnea faycUa, L., and Semioscopus avelkDiella, 

 Hb., were out. 



April 12th. — The President in the chair. The President referred to 

 the great loss the Society had sustained by the death of Mr. J . Jenner 

 Weir, who had always taken such an active interest in its meetings, 

 and a resolution was unanimously adopted that a letter of condolence 

 and sympathy should be sent to Mrs. Weir. Mr. Carpenter exhibited 

 long series of Hybernia leiicopha;aria, Schiff., from Coombe Wood, West 

 Wickham, and the New Forest, showing the typical forms in each 

 place ; also ova of Trachea piniperda, Panz. Mr. Adkin, for Mr. 

 Billups, the followiug rare Diptera : Meiyenia iiiajiiscida, from Dulwich, 

 new to Britain ; ISciowyza rnjicentris, from Ireland ; Deyeeria pidchellaf 

 bred from Peronea maccana by Mr. Adkin ; Urellia eluta, from Lewis- 

 ham ; and an unknown species of the genus Phorbia; also galls of 



