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by Lord Walsingham. Mr. Blandford read a letter from Mr. Wroughton, 

 of Poona, Deputy Conservator of Forests, asking for assistance in worlung 

 out certain Indian Hymenoptera and Diptera in the collections of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society. Lord Walsingham, Colonel Swinhoe, and 

 Mr. Moore made some remarks on the subject. — H. Goss, Ho7i. Secretary. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 



July 26th, 1889.— T. R. Billups, F.E.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 R. South exhibited a fawn-coloured var. of Argynnis adippe, the black spots 

 being represented by hyaline spots ; also two vars. of A. eupJirosyne ; the 

 var. of ^. adipjje and one of those of ^. euphrosyne were received from a 

 correspondent in Kent. Mr. West, specimens of Apamea ojjJuogramma 

 taken in his garden at Streatham. Mr. R. Adkin, examples of Selenia 

 limaria, Bupalus jriniaria, Amphidasys betidaria, and Odonopera hidentata, 

 bred from larvae and pupge received from Forres. Mr. Frohawk, pupee of 

 Gonopteryx rhamui, and called attention to their resemblance to young 

 birds ; also living larvae of Nemeobius lucina. Mr. Wellman, bred series of 

 Sesia tipuliformis, S. myopiformi$, S. formiclformis, and S. musciformis ; 

 the last-named bred from pupae from the Isle of Man. Mr. Auld, three 

 specimens of Callimorpha hera, var. lutescens, bred from ova obtained from 

 a female of that variety taken in Devon, 1888. Mr. J. T. Williams, an 

 example of Arctia caia, the red colour of the inferior wings being replaced 

 by orange. Mr, T. R. Billups, six out of the seven species of social wasps 

 indigenous to this country, viz., Vespa crabro, V. vulgaris, V. germanica, 

 V. rufa, V. sylvestris, and V. norvegica, and read notes relative to his 

 exhibit. Remarks were made by several members on the failure this year 

 of sugar to attract moths, and a discussion as to the cause of this ensued. 



August Sth, 1889. — The President in the chair. Mr. Dawson exhibited 

 a specimen of Deilephila Uvornica, taken in the neighbourhood of Ply- 

 mouth, 1888; a melanic form of Tccniocampa incerta, taken at Plumstead ; 

 two vars. of Folyommatus jMceas, one being the var. schmidtii, taken at 

 Plumstead. Mr. Carriugton said he only knew of three or four examples 

 of this vai'. having been taken during the last ten or fifteen years. Mr. 

 Tugwell remarked that he did not altogether agree with Mr. Carrington 

 that schmidtii was so rare ; he thought that in nearly all the principal 

 collections there were forms approaching this variety. Mr. Dennis 

 showed forms of Bryophila perla, including several yellow specimens, and 

 one having the superior wings almost entirely suffused with black. Mr. 

 R. Adkin, a specimen of Charocainjm porcellus, bred from a larva found 

 last year, and which was put in a box without any earth, and had spun a 

 cocoon some way from the bottom of the box within which it pupated. 

 Mr. Joy, a var. of Epinephele hyperanthes, having the spots on the under 

 side unusually large. Mr. Turner, a larva of Dicranura vinula affected by 

 some disease which Mr. Tugwell said seemed to be the result of a fungoid 

 nature. Mr. Billups, a female example of Bracon roberti, taken in his garden 

 at Peckham ; also series of Ascogaster varipes (both sexes) and A. instabilis 

 and read notes ; also galls on Salix herbacea, and their maker Mematus 

 herbacecB. The Secretary, on behalf of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, two galls, 

 found at West Cliff, Colorado, on the wild rose, viz., Rhodites bicolor, and 

 the fly bred from the other Mr. Cockerell proposed to call Rhodites 

 rosafolii, n. sp. A communication was also read from Mr. Cockerell on 

 " Bees and Poppy Flowers." — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



