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and had emerged in May. It ivas of the var. calluncB. Another 

 example had the discoidai on the left fore wing duplicated. 



July 8th. — The President in the chair.— Mr. G. B. Pearson, 

 Eussell Square, W., was elected a member. — There was a special 

 exhibition of Malacosoma neustria, M. castrensis, and Cosmotriclie 

 potatoria by Messrs. B. Adkin, E. Adkin, S. .Edwards, A. E. Gibbs, 

 Leeds, Sperring, and Brooks, which included series of numerous 

 local races and many aberrations. Mr. B. Adkin then read a series 

 of notes on the variation attainable in the three species. — Mr. B. S. 

 Williams exhibited a bred series of BuiKilus inniaria from Leith 

 Hill. — Mr. West (Ashtead), examples of Tricena jjsi and T. tridens, 

 and asked if members could point out definite markings whereby the 

 imagines could be correctly distinguished. 



London Natueal History Society. — February 16th, 1915. — 

 Mr. W. E. King exhibited a series of under sides of Hipparchia 

 hyperanthns, including one ah. lanceolata and several ab. cceca. — 

 Mr. J. A. Simes, some Spanish butterflies, including Thais rwmina, 

 Euchloii euphenoides, Zegris eupJieme var. meridionalis, Gharaxcs 

 jasius, Dryas pandora, Melanargia syllius, M. ines, and M, lachesis, 

 Agriades thersites, Nomiades cyllarus, Lyccsna hylas var. nivescens, 

 Ccenonympha iphioides and G. dorus, Plcbeius zephyrus var. hispanica, 

 and var. lycidas. — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, Dasycampa ruhiginea from 

 Bournemouth, Hereford, and Torquay, the Bomuiemouth specimens 

 being lighter than the Hereford ones and the Torquay more reddish ; 

 also a fine variety from Torquay. — Mr. J. A. Simes read a paper 

 entitled ' A Month amongst Spanish Butterflies." 



OBITUARY. 



William Howlett. 



There died on June 8th one of the oldest naturalists of Suffolk. 

 Eor many years Howlett had been a barber and taxidermist in New- 

 market High Street, to whom the district brought all sorts of natural 

 history objects to be named, and he was locally widely known ; but 

 for the last thirteen years he had retired to a cottage in Barton Mills, 

 some ten miles away and always a favourite hunting-ground of his. 

 He had been captain of the old Newmarket fire brigade, as well as 

 for long an official of the Lark Angling Society and the Barton Mills 

 Conservative Association. Besides these diverse interests, he was 

 especially interested in the animals, birds, fishes, and butterflies of 

 the district, in the habits of which he was, as a self-educated man, 

 laudably proficient. We well remember him at the Barton ' Bull ' in 

 the old days when Mr. Howes was host in 1899, before the hotel was 

 renovated for motorists (a new wing was added last winter), and 

 here he actually expired of heat apoplexy, while in search of stamps 

 to forward natural history or piscatorial articles to the ' Bury Free 

 Press,' to which and one or two London papers he contributed. Few 

 knew the Suffolk Breck and Chalk Vertebrate Fauna better than 



^°^^^"- Claude Moeley. 



