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February lith. — The President in the chair. Mr. A. C. Vine was 

 elected a member. Mr. Adkin exhibited examples of Arctia caia from 

 Morayshire and Kent, and Hydroecia nictitans, from Morayshire. Mr. 

 Tugwell, a marked variety of Chcerocampa porcellus, the usual deep rose 

 colour of the wings being replaced by a pale olive-green, shaded with grey 

 markings ; also a variety of Deilephila galii, bred from larva taken at 

 Deal, the usual characteristic markings of dark olive-green, being replaced 

 by dull grey, the pale streak that runs from the inner margin to the tip 

 the wing being obscured and dull in colour ; inferior wings of a dull pa 

 grey, lacking the rich rose shade at the anal angle. He remarked that ht 

 had bred two of this variety, and up to the present time seventy of the type. 

 Mr. Turner, light forms of Zygcena JiVq^endida;, from Reigate. Mr. C. A. 

 Briggs, Triphana comes and T. pronuha, from various localities. Mr. Weir 

 exhibited three male and three female specimens of a butterfly he had 

 received from the Falkland Islands. They were of the same genus as our 

 well known Brenthls [Aryynnis) selene and B. etiphrosyne, and were 

 apparently closely allied to the Chilian B. anna, Blanch. Mr. Weir stated 

 that he had not yet been able to make the necessary references, but he was 

 at present disposed to regard them as a species new to science; and if upon 

 future examination he found his view correct, he proposed for them the 

 name of Brenthis falklaudica. He thought the specimens were sexes of 

 the same species although the shape of the upper wings differed materially, 

 and the difference in the colouration of the underside of the under wings 

 was considerable ; but on the other hand he could detect no difference in 

 the distribution of the colour on the upper side of either of the upper or 

 lower wings. It was interesting that palsearctic and nearctic genera of 

 Lepidoptera reappeared at the southern part of S. America, which were 

 quite unknown over a vast extent of the intermediate latitudes. But it 

 should be borne in mind, that there was in the American continents 

 an almost continuous chain of mountains from the Arctic Ocean to the 

 Straits of Magellan, which might have formed a connected temperate region 

 by which the migration of species from the north to the south was effected 

 at a time when the temperature of the earth was different to that which 

 now obtains. Mr. Tugwell, two very dark specimens of Boarmia repan- 

 data, received from Mr. Porritt. Mr. Weir read a letter from Dr. 

 Percy Rendall, who is now resident at Bathurst, Gambia. Observations 

 were made upon a reported case of stridulation by a species of Vanessa, and 

 a discussion ensued. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Reference Entomological Society. — The report of tlie Committee 

 of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society read 

 recently at the Annual Meeting, contained allusion to the scheme for a 

 Reference Society, as discussed last year (Entom. xxi. 10, 68, 121). It will 

 be remembered that it was found impracticable with a small subscription to 

 institute an independent Society upon the lines indicated ; so the South 

 London Society stepped in and enlarged their facilities for country member- 

 ship. The result has been eminently successful, and many entomologists, 

 representing students of various orders, have not only joined, but availed 

 themselves of the use of the library and naming of specimens sent up for 

 the purpose. It seems desirable that these facilities should be widely 

 known, for they cannot fail to be most useful to entomologists residing in 

 isolated localities. — [J. T. C.]. 



