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Trinidad, Coleoptera, Phasmids, a Mygale, Cordiccps, &c. — Mr. B. 

 Adkin, examples of Chermes pini, the pine aphis, on Scots pine. — 

 Mr. Main, an example of the Neuropteron Nemoptera coa, brought 

 from Cintra by Mr. Bowman, and living larvae of the firefly Luciola 

 italica. — Mr. E. Adkin, the nests of wasps found rolled up in bales of 

 tobacco from the Levant. — Mr. Piatt Barrett; various conspicuous 

 insects from Sicily and South Africa, mantis, ant-lion, locusts, &c. 



May 13i/i.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Leeds exhibited aberrations of Polyommatus icarus, in- 

 cluding ab. obsoleta, an asymmetrical specimen near obsoleta, a 

 chocolate banded under side, and a female streaked with blue ; of 

 Agriades tJietis, including a female without orange in margin and 

 bluish clouded, males with aberrant eye-spots below, &c. ; ol A. 

 coridon, including dark suffused below, slaty suffused below, females 

 with khaki streaks above, and ab. semisyngrapha; of Coe7ionymp)ha 

 pamphihis, including dark suffused below, and an under side with 

 additional spotting ; of Pararge cegeria, the British form egendes, and 

 Cornish forms much like the S. European form cegeria ; of Pieris 

 brassicce, a female with a pale blue tinge throughout. — Mr. Adkin, a 

 short series of the hybrid Piston hirtaria ^ x Nyssia lajj'ponaria $ , 

 and gave notes on the mixture of the two specific series of character- 

 istics. — Mr. Moore, Manduca atropos from S. Africa.— Mr. Curwen, 

 long series of Polyommatus eros and Latiorina orbitidus from Saas 

 Grund and the Grisons respectively. — Mr. B. S. Williams, larvae of 

 Odezia atrata on Gytisus, and a very varied series of Xanthorhoe 

 fluctiiata, with ab. ncapolisata from Finchley. — Mr. Cowham, cases 

 of the large Psychid Oeketicus platensis, examples of the Neotropical 

 Colias, C. lesbia, a large and conspicuously marked " skipper " 

 Pyrrhopyga sp., and an Arctiid, Ecpanthera sp. — Mr. Barrett, a 

 large number of Lepidoptera mainly from Sicily, and read notes 

 on the variation ; they included Thais polyxena, Pontia daplidice, 

 Anthocharis belia, Euchloii cardamines, with their racial, seasonal, 

 and aberrational forms. — Mr. Dennis, photographs of the ant 

 Formica pratensis, a species closely alhed to F. rufa. — Mr. 

 Stallman, a Taniocampa gothica female with right hind wing re- 

 producing the markings of the fore wing on the upper side, from 

 Holmwood. — Mr. B. Adkin, Lepidoptera from Loch Lomond, dark 

 suffused BrenthJs selcne and Diacrisia sannio, a white suffused under 

 side of Coinonympha paviphilus, &c. — Mr. A. Sich read a paper, 

 " Notes on Tortrix viridana," on which a short discussion took 

 place. 



May 27th.— Mi\ B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Sich exhibited ova of Tortrix viridana laid in pairs on 

 the bark of an oak, and cases of Solenobia, presumably S. lichenella, 

 from Barnes. — Mr. Moore, Lepidoptera from near Johannesburg, 

 Transvaal, including Hypolimnas misipp^is, Precis sesamus, Colias 

 electa and var. aurivillius (comparable to G. edusa and var. helice of 

 Europe), Papilio dcmodocus, Pyrameis cardui (the small ^Ethiopian 

 race), Hippotion celcrio a.nd Basiothia media, a small green Sphingid. — 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, larvae of Xylophasia scolopacina from Finchley, 

 and a series of Tricopteryx {Lohophora) polycommata from Yeovil. — 



