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last June at Whitstable, Kent, the first British examples having been 

 taken in the larval state by Mr. E. D. Green in 1906 ; also a pair of 

 Goleoplwra chalcogramviella, Zell., taken last August in Richmond 

 Park, Surrey, this species formerly occurring near Scarborough, but 

 not apparently taken hitherto in Britain further south than Suffolk. 

 — Mr. H. M. Bdelsten, a bred series of Nonagria neurica, Hb. (edelsteni) 

 from Sussex, including two new aberrations for which he suggested 

 the names rtifescens and fiisca. He mentioned that, as far as he was 

 aware, these two forms had not been pi'eviously noted on the Conti- 

 nent. He showed, also, ova and pupa in situ, with photographs by 

 Mr. Hugh Main to illustrate the life-history of the species. — Mr. 

 W. G. Sheldon brought for exhibition a case containing several series 

 of Pieridffi taken by him this year at Herculesbad. He drew atten- 

 tion to those labelled as Pieris rapce, suggesting that some of them 

 might be P. ergane or P. manni, to which respectively they bear a 

 remarkable resemblance superficially. He also exhibited the two 

 " fireflies," Luciola mingrelica from Herculesbad, and Phausis sjDleii- 

 didulus, male and female, from Hohe Tatra. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited 

 two imagines and a larva of the finest of our Neuroptera, Osviyliis 

 clirysops ; the exhibit was made on account of the larva which was 

 taken by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., near Queen's Bower in the New Forest. 

 It pierces and sucks dry some small animals, but its life-history is not 

 well known. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff showed a teratological specimen of 

 a Carabid beetle from Ceylon {Ompkra, Latr., sp.). The middle 

 femur of the right side was dilated at the distal end, bearing at its 

 anterior angle two supplementary tibiae coherent at the base ; the 

 rudimentary tarsi w^ere also adherent. — Mr. A. W. Bacot showed two 

 boxes containing pupal cases of Aglais urticcB collected by Mr. Hugh 

 Main in one locality. Those taken from the food-plant were yellowish 

 white ; those taken from the cage in which the larvae pupated quite 

 black ; thus demonstrating the effect of surroundings upon the pupal 

 coloration. — Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper "On 

 Callo-phrys avis," a Palaearctic butterfly new to Science. 



Wednesday, December 1st, 1909.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M. A., M.D., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. — The Secretary again read out the list of nomina- 

 tions published at the previous meeting. — Mr. W. C. Crawley, of 

 Tollerton Hall, Nottingham, and Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, M.A., of New 

 College and 3, Blackball Road, Oxford, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — The President announced that the Society would hold a 

 Conversazione in the month of May, 1910, and invited the co-operation 

 and assistance of Fellows. ^ — -Commander J. J. Walker exhibited one 

 hundred and twenty-eight species of Coleoptera, belonging to sixty- 

 eight genera, which he had taken, by sweeping only, at Wytham 

 Park, Berks, between 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. on November 5th, 1909. 

 Several local and uncommon species were included among these, such 

 as Homalota iniherula. Sharp, Anisotovia cinnamomea, Panz. (both 

 sexes), A. ])unctidata, Gyll., Hydnohms -punctatissimus, Steph., 

 Cryptophagus puhescens, Sturm, PhloeophUus edwardsi, Steph., Man- 

 tiira mattheiosi, Curt., Salpingus castaneus, Panz., Apion filirostrcB, 

 Kirby, &c. — The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows sent for exhibition examples 

 of an unidentified species of Luperina taken during the past season 



