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course, unusually large. I should be glad to know if this occurrence 

 is as exceptional as it seems to me to be. I have never observed 

 a similar instance in any of the Lepidoptera I have bred. — H. C. 

 Haywaed ; The Croft, Eepton, October 14th, 1914. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 7th, 

 1914. _ Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Dr. Leslie C. Coleman, D.Sc, Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Bangalore, Mysore, India, and the Eev. Frederic S. F. Jan- 

 nings, Warmsworth Rectory, Doncaster, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. — Mr. 0. E. Janson exhibited an abnormal specimen 

 of Melitaa aurinia, taken in Kent, in which six of the ner- 

 vures were almost symmetrically deficient on either aide. — Mr. 

 G. T. Porritt, a series of Chloropera venosa, Steph., taken by 

 Professor Carr and Mr. Mottram on the river Trent, near Notting- 

 ham ; also a series of G. gravnnatica, Poda, for comparison. — 

 The Eev. F. D. Morice, a specimen of Gmbo {Lindeinus) albilabris, 

 F., female, with abnormal ocelli ; also a photograph, from nature, of 

 eggs in situ, laid in a rose-stem in a double roio by VaUisnieri's 

 " Mosca dei Eosai," Arge pagana, exactly as in the author's original 

 figure. — The Eev. G. Wheeler, a gynandromorphous specimen of 

 Plebeius argyrognomon taken by him in the Val Maggia on July 13th 

 this year, exactly halved, the right wings being female, the left male. 

 Also an extreme example of ab. persica of Polyommatus icarus taken 

 on the marshes at Altmatt on July 11th, and a male of Pararge 

 mcera with symmetrical deeply concave costa of both fore wings, 

 taken on the Via Mala on July 17th ; also a well-marked series of 

 Pieris vianni from Vernayaz, taken on July 5th this year. — Mr. 

 Prideaux, a very perfect example of PMmicia phlaas, ab. schmidtii, of 

 a pale yellow colour ; also a male Polyommatus icarus, ab. obsoleta, 

 and some very blue females of the latter species, all taken in the 

 neighbourhood of Brasted, N. Kent. — Mr. Donisthorpe, specimens 

 of Platypliora lubbocki, Verrall, and ^^nigmatias blattoidcs, Meinert, 

 which he had reared in a nest of Formica picea, Nyl, taken in the 

 New Forest in July last. He pointed out that he believed he had 

 proved that these two flies were the male and female of same species. 

 — Mr. L. W. Newman (1) A curious gynandromorphic Polyommatus 

 icarus, the right fore wing being female and the remaining three 

 wings male except for one orange lunule on each of the hind wings. 

 (2) A curious Zygaenid of doubtful species, being small and having 

 four spots only. (3) A short series of L. ilicifolia, bred from the 

 wild female taken May, 1913, at Cannock Chase by Mr. Oliver. 

 (4) A pair of beautiful Neuria saponarice from the Cork coast, the 

 ground-colour being a rich pink instead of the usual yellowish colour. 

 — The following papers were read: "Contributions to the Life- 

 History of Polyommatus eros," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S. ; " Parthenogenesis in Worker-bees at the Cape,"' by E. W. 



