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of 1905. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a long series of Cmionympha 

 mathewi, Tutt, from different places in the north-west region of 

 Spain (Galicia). and gave it as his opinion that it must be regarded 

 as a geographical or subspecific variety of C. donis, and not a 

 fully established species. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.E.S., commu- 

 nicated "A Permanent Record of British Moths in their Natural 

 Attitudes of Rest," and "Further Notes on the Choice of a Resting- 

 site by Pieris rapa;,'" by Mr. A. H. Hamm ; Mr. R. Shelford, M.A., 

 F.L.S., " Studies of the Blattidre," ; the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, 

 " Notes on the Life History of Sesia midreniforviis, Lasp.," and Mr. 

 Hubert W. Simmonds, " Notes on an Unusual Emergence of Chryso- 

 phanus salustius in New Zealand." 



Wednesday, December 5th. — Mr. F. Merrifield, President, in the 

 chair. — The Hon. Secretary announced that the Halliday correspond- 

 ence had been presented to the Society by Dr. E. Percival Wright, of 

 Trinity College, Dublin. — Mr. H. C. Pratt, Government Entomologist, 

 Federated Malay States, Kuala Lumpur ; Capt. H. J. Walton, M.B., 

 F.R.C.S., Indian Medical Service; Mr. Arthur Ernest Gibbs, F.L.S., 

 Kitchener's Meads, St. Albans ; Capt. James Bruce Gregorie-Tulloch, 

 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ; Mr. John Ashburner Nix, 

 Tilgate, Sussex; Mr. Herbert W. Southcombe, J. P., 16, Stanford 

 Avenue, Brighton, and Mr. Roland E. Turner, 21, Emperors Gate, 

 N.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. A. W. Bacot 

 exhibited a specimen of Catocala nupta, taken at rest at Haciiney, 

 November 9th, 1906, remarkable for having two well developed tarsi 

 on the left fore-leg. Also three female specimens of Lasiocampa 

 guercus, L., bred from larvffi from Cornwall in 1906. One of these 

 larvfe had been submitted to a pressure of from seventeen to thirty 

 atmospheres (405 to 450 lb. per square inch) on two occasions ; a 

 pressure which had proved fatal at once to a frog, used as a control 

 experiment. A discussion followed in which Dr. F. A. Dixey, Dr. 

 Greenwood, and other Fellows joined. — Dr. T. A. Chapman — who 

 exhibited a long series of Hastula hyerana, Mill., bred this year from 

 larvfe collected at Hyeres, and a diagrammatic map of the neighbour- 

 hood, to explain the distribution of the species in that area — pointed out 

 that there were two colonies of H. hyerana, in one of which the melanic 

 specimens were three times as numerous as in the other. — Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 exhibited specimens of Teracolus omphale, Godt., bred by Mr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall. The exhibit showed that under arranged conditions of mois- 

 ture and warmth the wet-season phase might be artificially induced. — 

 Mr. L. B. Prout read a paper entitled '' Xanthorhoe ferrugata, Clerck, 

 and the Mendelian Hypothesis." — Dr. F. A. Dixey communicated a 

 paper " On the Diaposematic Resemblance between Huphina corva, 

 Wallace, and Ixias baliensis, Fruhst." — H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., Ho7i. 

 Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 —November 8th, 1906. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited bred variable series of 

 (1) Tethea subtusa, from Fermanagh, and (2) X^imeria pulveraria, from 

 various localities, and pointed out the characteristic forms prevailing 

 in each. — Mr. Newman, (1) Anthrocera [Zyyana) purpuralis [minos), 



