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Structure of the Scent-organs in certain Brush-bearing Male Butter- 

 flies," by H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S.— George Wheeler, 

 Hoyi. Sec. 



■ The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— January Uth, 1915.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., 

 President, in the chair. — Dr. Chapman exhibited an Anthrocera 

 exulans with six wings, an A. anthyllidis with three tarsi on the left 

 mesotlioracic leg, and an A. achillecB with symmetrical wing notches. 

 He also showed exotic lattice-work cocoons, probably Syntomid or 

 Lithosiid, and pupal burrows of Scardia boleti, showing the trap- 

 door closing the cocoon proper. — Mr. Moore, cases of Psychidcs from 

 the Island of Ehodes, cases of CEceticus kirbii from Antigua, &c. — 

 Mr. R. Adkin, various cocoons of British species of Lepidoptera, and 

 read a paper entitled " Some Pupal Habitations." — Mr. Sich read an 

 extract from the ' Flora of Middlesex,' Trimen & Dyer, 1869, giving 

 an account of a natural history field meeting which took place in 

 1629 to Hampstead Heath. 



January 2Sth, 1915. — The President in the chair. — Annual Meet- 

 ing. — The balance sheet and the report of the council were read and 

 adopted. The president read his address, dealing with the position 

 and work of the Society during the past year, and with general ento- 

 mology during the same period. The usual votes of thanks were 

 passed. The following is a list of officers and council for the session 

 1915-16: President, B. H. Smith, B.A., E.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, 



A. E. Gibbs, E.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., and A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. ; 

 Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; Librarian, A. W. Dods ; Curator, 

 W. West (Greenwich) ; Editor of Proceedings, E. Step, F.L.S. ; 

 Hon. Secretaries, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S. , F.Z.S., F.E.S., and 

 H. J. Turner, F.E.S.; Council: R. Adkin, F.E.S., S. E. Ashby, 

 F.E.S., J. Piatt Barrett, F.E.S., Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 



B. S. Curwen, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., D. R. Morford, N. D. Riley, 

 F.E.S., and _W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. Ordinary Meeting.— Mr. Buck- 

 stone exhibited a bred series of Bwpalus piniaria showing much 

 variation ; aberrations of Hipocrita jacohace, smoky, streaked with 

 pink, and entirely smoky hind wings ; and Spilosoma menthastri, 

 which on emergence had a pink flush which w-as evanescent. — Mr. 

 Edwards, living specimens of Ephestia kuhniella with pupse and 

 cocoons. — Mr. G. T. Porritt, a fine series of ab. nigrocostata and ab. 

 nigrosparsata of Abraxas grossulariata. 



February 11th, 1915. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice-Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. — Messrs. B. J. Bunnett, M.A., of Forest Hill, 

 and Gordon Fryer, of Twickenham, w'ere elected members. — Mr. 

 L. W. Newman communicated a long record of the results of the 

 October pairing of Pyrameis atalanta, and of his unsuccessful attempt 

 to keep the fertile females ahve through the winter. He felt con- 

 vinced that we were almost entirely dependent upon immigration for 

 our supply of this species. — Mr. Frohawk said that P. atalanta was 

 on the wing all the winter in suitable weather in the Scilly Isles. — 

 Mr. Barrett said that it occurred similarly in Sicily all the winter. — 

 Mr. R. Adkin exhibited photographs, highly magnified, of the silken 

 thread construction of the cocoons of Saturnia pavonia, Anthrocera 

 filipend%dce, and Dicranura vinula. — Mr. Frohawk showed a large 



