S56 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Johnson mentioned that Darwin, in his ' Origin of Species,' 

 recorded that in November, 18i4, dense swarms of locusts visited 

 Madeira. He said that since then, until August last, these insects had 

 not visited the Island. Mr. Cliampion remarked that the species sent 

 by Mr. Johnson was Decticiis albifrons, Fabr., not a true migratory 

 locust. Mr. Champion also exhit)ited specimens of Anthaxia uitidida, 

 Velleius dUatatvs and Athous rkomheus, taken by himself in the New 

 Forest during the past summer. Mr. H. Goss read a letter he had 

 received from Capt. Montgomery, J. P., of Mid-Ilovo, Natal, reporting 

 vast flights of locusts there, extending over three miles in length, on 

 the 3 1st August last, and exhibited a specimen of the locust, a species 

 of Acridiiuii. Capt. Montgomery stated that, as a rule, his district and 

 most of Natal was free from tlie pest, but that an exceptional invasion 

 had occurred in 1650. Mr. J. W. Tutt exhibited four typical speci- 

 mens of Enujdia cribrum from the New Forest, and, for comparison, 

 four specimens of the var. Candida of the same species, taken at an 

 elevation of 4000 ft. near Counnayeur, on the Italian side of Mont 

 Blanc. He stated that he had also met with tins form in the Cogne 

 Valley, at an elevation of from 6000 to 8000 ft. Mr. E. Adkin ex- 

 hibited, for Mr. H. Murray, a specimen of Erehia cuthiops, in which the 

 left fore wing was much bleached, taken in August last, near Carn- 

 forth. Mr. Adkin also exhibited a series of Acroiujcta rumicis from Co. 

 Cork, Ireland, including light and black forms, with examples from 

 the Scilly Isles, Isle of Man, and North of Scotland, for comparison. 

 Mr. Elwes exhibited a series of Chionobas alberta (male and female), 

 G. uhleri var. varuna, and Erebia discoidali.s, from Calgary, Alberta, 

 N.W. Canada, collected in May last by Mr. Woolley-Dod. He said 

 that the validity of C. alberta, whicli had been questioned by Mr. W. 

 H. Edwards, Avas fully established by these specimens. Prof. Poulton 

 gave an account of the changes he had recently made at Oxford in the 

 arrangement of the Hope Collections in the Department of Zoology, 

 and as to the rooms now available for students working at these col- 

 lections. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker communicated a paper entitled 

 " Descriptions of the Pyralidte, Crambidas, and Phycidte collected by 

 the late T. Vernon Wollaston in Madeira." 



November 1th. — Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. Mr. W. P. Blackburne-Maze, of Shaw 

 House, Newbury, Berkshire, and Mr. Bertram George Ptye, of 212, 

 Upper Piichmond Road, Putney, S.W., were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a female of Papillo telearchus, 

 Hewitson, whicli he had received by the last mail from Cherra Punji. 

 He said that this was the only known specimen of the female of this 

 species, with the exception of one in Mr. L. de Niceville's collection, 

 wliich he had described in the ' Journal of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society ' in 18U3. He also exhibited a male of the same 

 species for comparison. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited abnormal forms 

 of Pararye mef/cera, P. tcijeria, Melitcea athalia, Chri/sophanus phlaas, 

 Charceas (jraminis, Lophopteryx canielina, Plusia gamma, Cucidlia chamo' 

 viUlcE, Boarmia repandata \^x. conversaria, Cidaria j^sittacata, and other 

 species, all collected by Major J. N. Still, on Dartmoor, Devon. He 

 also exhibited, for Mr. Sydney Webb, of Dover, a long series of most 

 remarkable varieties of Arctia caja and A. vlllica, Mr. Gervase F, 



