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not black, abdominal tufts in X. socia, and the much darker thorax of 

 the form. 



August 13th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. C. W. Spurring, 

 of Blackheath, was elected a member. — Mr. E. Adkin exhibited a 

 series of Odontoioera hidentata, bred from melanic parents from York- 

 shire, and read notes on the forms. All but tln-ee followed the 

 parents. — Mr. Newman, bred specimens of Argymiis j^ajohia and A. 

 aglaia.^M.T. Edward, a female Nemotois cupriacellus, taken at By- 

 fleet. He also show^ed a large number of Diptera, Hemiptera, and 

 Hymenoptera taken by him at Cannes, Fontainebleau, and Granda- 

 neza. — Mr. Sich, the larva of Aristotelia stipella var. ncsviferella, a 

 miner in Ghcnoj^odium leaves and the rare alien yellow knapweed 

 {Centaurea solstitialis), found at Chiswick. — -Mr. West (Greenwich), 

 the following Hemiptera from Esher : — Salda cocksii, Cyrterrhinus 

 pygvuEUs, C. caricis, and Nabis hoops, with Bryocoris pteridis, from 

 Carlisle. — -Mr. B. H. Smith, ova of Porthesia chrysorrhcea, laid on 

 sea-buckthorn at Deal. — Mr. Step, on behalf of Mr. Carr, a variegated 

 form of Senecio jacobaa from' Box Hill. 



August 27th. — The President in the chair. — M. R. Adkin exhibited 

 two series of Dictyopteryx bergmannicma, one bred from garden rose 

 and the other from wild burnet rose, and read notes on the different 

 habits of the two broods of larvae. — Mr. Turner, a light form of 

 Cramhus chrysonuchellus, characteristic of Eastbourne, and two forms 

 of Eurrhypara urticata, one having the marginal spots small and 

 well separated, the other having them coalesced into a wide band. — 

 Mr. Brown, a specimen of Leucania flavi color from Benfleet. — Mr. 

 Newman, examples of the hybrid Smermthus ocellata-populi, just 

 bred ; Crymodes exulis from Shetland, including females ; living larvae 

 of Dicranura hicuspis from Tilgate Forest; an Abraxas grossulariata 

 with the hind wings with only rayed marginal spots and the discoidal ; 

 a Melanargia galathea, the left hind wing of which was var. jjrocida. 

 — Mr. Joy, a living larva of Cyclopides palamon {paniscus). — Mr. 

 Cowham, two Amphidasys betalaria, one having the basal spot absent 

 on the fore wing, but with white discoidal spots, and other having a 

 large whitish costal blotch on the lower wing. — Mr. B. H. Smith, a 

 bred series of Eugonia polychloros from the New Forest, including a 

 dark smoky form. — -Mr. Goff, a Bumicia phlceas, showing a complete 

 absence of copper on the lower wings. — Mr. Sich, mines of Nepticula 

 acctosce from Surrey, and gave notes on the life-history of the species. 

 — Mr. Fremlin read a short paper entitled " Insects as Carriers of 

 Disease." — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Sec. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — September 1st, 1908. — A resolution was passed in support of The 

 Public Rights of Way Bill and the Access to Mountains Bill. — Mr. 

 J. A. Clark exhibited Arctia caia ab., Hailsham, June, 1908, the upper 

 wings being deep chocolate-brown with only slight traces of usual 

 cream ground colour, and under wings smoky black with iutouse 

 black spots and pinkish margin. — ■ Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson exhibited 

 Nemoria viridata, Surrey, May and June, 1908, including female with 

 usual white lines very faintly marked, and another female with two 



