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and Braemar ; pale forms from the limestone rocks. — Mr. J. E. Cope 

 exhibited Anthia decemguttata (?) from Stellenbosch, Cape Colony, 

 October, 1914. — The retiring President, Mr. J. H. Watson, discussed 

 " Some Interesting Points in Insect Anatomy." By means of the 

 lantern microscope he illustrated his remarks with suitable slides. 



February Srcl, 1915. — Mr. Mansbridge opened the evening with 

 a discussion on experiments made with regard to the melanic form 

 of B. repajidata, illustrating with specimens and figures showing 

 results obtained. — Mr. V. Coryton exhibited Lepidoptera taken at 

 Delamere, &c. — Mr. W. Buckley, two specimens of D. galii from 

 Cornwall. — Mr. Johnson, T. gracilis, showing rosy forms, from Scot- 

 land ; paler forms (one with slight rosy flush), clay-coloured and 

 greyish forms from Lanes, and Cheshire ; also very deep red speci- 

 mens from New Forest ; also a short series of T. variata and T. 

 obeliscata for comparison. — Mr. A. Binns showed P. chrysitis, N. 

 Ijlecta, H. micacea, H. a^irantiaria, H. defoliaria, A. lolantaginis, A. 

 grossulariata, all taken locally (Manchester). — Mr. L. Nathan, 0. 

 antigua, male and female, bred July, 1914, from Manchester ova ; 

 Vespa vulgaris, female. Moss Side, October, 1914 ; T. obeliscata, W, 

 Didsbury, October, 1914. — Mr. J. H. Watson, living specimen of a 

 new subspecies of Philosamia cynthia from Tsing-tau ; also Diptera 

 (Tachinids) infesting the Saturnid Antherea roylei, from Khasia Hills, 

 Assam. — Mr. J. H. Shorrocks, photo-micrographs of dissections of 

 common cockroach. — Mr. L. H. Suggitt, a selection of large Lamel- 

 licornia, including male Dynastes. 



March 3rd, 1915. — Mr. Pierce, of Liverpool, read a most interest- 

 ing and instructive paper entitled "The Genitalia of the Lepidoptera." 

 The lecturer opened his subject by giving a short history of the work 

 which has been done in this branch of our entomological science, 

 and afterwards, by means of slides shown upon the screen of the 

 genitaha of many Lepidoptera, demonstrated the practicability of 

 determining genera and species by this method. 



London Natural History Society. — January 5th, 1915. — Mr. 

 T. H. Archer, of 52, Elsenham Street, Southfields, and Mr. A. E. 

 Hoap, of Southfields, were elected members of the Society. — Mr. 

 C. H. Wilhams exhibited a long series of Dianthacia coJispersa from 

 the Shetland Isles and a few specimens from Croydon. — Mr. L. B. 

 Prout, the retiring President, read his presidential address. 



January 19th, 1915. — The Kev. C. E. Eaven, of Cambridge, was 

 elected a member of the Society. — Mr. L. B. Prout exhibited two 

 cabinet drawers containing a series of nearly all the British species 

 of Eupithecia, including very variable E. subfulvata and its Scottish 

 forms cogyiata, &c. ; E. pygmceata, captured flying over a heap in the 

 afternoon at Doncaster ; melanic forms of E. castigata, E. albi- 

 punctata, E. vidgata, &c. — Mr. H. W. Wood, E. castigata and its 

 melanic form ab. obscurissima, Prout ; E. innotata, showing first and 

 second brood usual forms, and some without the usual markings, 

 also of both broods, from Durham ; and ab. fraxinata from Middles- 

 brough ; also larvae of Pieris brassicce taken in a garden at South- 

 fields on January 17, several degrees of frost being registered that 

 morning. — Mr. Bernard Cooper, a varied series of Mimas tilicB, bred 

 from a Lyndhurst female taken June, 1913. 



