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invitation of the Society, it being a matter of some congratulation, 

 however, to those who did, that there was no undue crowding, either 

 at the exhibition stands, or at the tables where the microscopes were 

 installed. 



Among the more important exhibitions we noticed the following : — 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, F.E.S., Mimicry in American Papilios. 

 Lt.-Col. N. Manders, E.A.M.C, Series of Melanitis lecla taken at 

 different seasons. Dr. G. B. Longstaff, Plants of Bryophylktm caly- 

 cimmi, a favourite resting-place of Callidryas eubule : Rest attitudes 

 of Butterflies ; Flies mimicking Wasps ; Water-Grasshoppers. Dr. 

 F. A. Dixey and Dr. G. B. Longstaff, Scents in Butterflies. The 

 President, Illustrations of Tsetse and other biting Flies. Mr. E. A. 

 Butler, Dimorphism in Hemiptera, and recent additions to the 

 British List. Mr. R. Shelford, Insects preserved in Amber. Lt.-Col. 

 C. T. Bingham, Nest of Wasp from Assam, with occupant attacking 

 Spider. Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., Variation and Dimorphism in Indo- 

 Chinese and Indo-Malayan Butterflies. Mr. W. J. Kaye, Heliconine 

 Butterflies from British Guiana. Mr. W. F. Rosenberg, Rare Hete- 

 rocera from South America. Mr. H. Eltringham, Mimicry in African 

 Butterflies. Mr. O. E. Janson, Gohath Beetles. Dr. H. C. PhiUips, 

 Parasites on Lepidoptera. Mr. G. T. Porritt, Melanism in West 

 Yorkshire Lepidoptera. Mr. C. P. Pickett, British Lepidoptera. 

 Mr. L. W. Newman, Living British Larvae and Pupae. Mr. A. E. 

 Sich, Lepidoptera of South London. Mr. Selwyn Image, Lepido- 

 ptera observed within six miles of Charing Cross. Mr. R. Adkin, 

 Local Variation in a common British species. Mr. A. H. Jones, The 

 Genus Anthocharis. Miss M. E. Fountaine, Spring Butterflies of the 

 Mediterranean Region. The Rev. G. Wheeler, Rare and variable 

 species of Swiss Butterflies. Dr. T. A. Chapman, Homceochromatism 

 in French Butterflies. Mr. A. W. Bacot, Malacosoma neustria and 

 M. castrensis, and their hybrid forms. Mr. L. B. Prout and Mr. 

 A. W. Bacot, Experiments in Mendelian Heredity with Acidalia 

 virgiilaria. Mr. A. Hall and Mr. C. J. Grist, Mimetic Nymphaline 

 Butterflies and their Models. Mr. S. Edwards, Morphos. Mr. J. A. 

 Clark, Varieties of Peronea cristana. Mr. R. South, Aberrations of 

 Peronea cristana and P. hastiana. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, 

 Insects and other Forms associated with British Ants ; The British 

 Ants ; Observation Nests of Formica riifa and F. sanguinea. Mr. A. 

 Harrison and Mr. H. Main, Local Forms and Varieties of Pieris najn 

 and Aplecta nehulosa. Mr. A. E. Tonge, Stereoscopic Photographs 

 from Nature. Mr. H. J. Turner, Life-Histories of the Genus Coleo- 

 phora. Mr. E. B. Nevinson, British Aculeate Hymenoptera. Mr. H. 

 Main, Photographs of Lepidoptera ; and the QlDligation Book of the 

 Society, with the signatures of the Duchess of Kent and the Princess 

 Victoria, afterwards Queen Victoria. 



A special word of praise is also due to Miss Garnet for her 

 exquisitely minute and faithful water-colour drawings of Coleophorids, 

 exhibited by Mr. Selwyn Image for Mr. Christopher Whall ; while 

 the whole of two sides of the room were decorated with the drawings 

 of varieties of British Lepidoptera in the collection of Mr. S. J. 

 Capper by Mr. S. L. Mosley — a unique and instructive series. 



The Smaller Room was entirely devoted to microscopic demon- 



