44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
var. hutchinsoni bred from ova, and read full notes on the life-history. 
He also showed hand-paintings of the finest varieties bred and 
captured by him during the season, and an almost perfectly black ex- 
treme form of A. grossulariata, the under wings alone showing slight 
traces of white.—Mr. W. Crocker, Phryxus livornica, from Torquay, 
May, 1906, a fawn-coloured Gnophos obscuraria from Babbacombe, a 
very varied series of Hesperia malve var. taras, Leucania extranea, 
taken at sallow in April, 1906, and varieties of Melitea athalia and 
M. aurima—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, extremes in size of Polyommatus 
damon from the Alps; a number of species of the genus Brenthis, in 
which the submarginal spots and lunules were more or less coales- 
cent ; a nice series of Satyrus cordula from Vissoye, with female var. 
peas ; and a box containing numerous species of Rhopalocera from 
German Hast Africa and from Biké in Central Africa.—Myr. Lucas, 
the large earwig Labidura riparia, which he had kept alive for some 
months, feeding it on fish.—Mr. Tonge, Szrex noctilco, taken in his 
house at Reigate.-—Mr. Edelsten, a long series of the new British 
species Nonagria neurica from Sussex, with Continental examples ; 
and series from various localities of N. dissoluta and var. arundineta. 
—Mr. Joy, an unusually pale example of Argynnis paphia—Mr. 
Ashdown, a long series of the Longicorn, Strangalia armata, to show 
the range of variation in the markings.—Mr. H. W. Andrews, 
examples of the British species of Hristalinz, and read notes on the 
mimetic resemblances shown.—Mr. Baldock, a number of species of 
Ornithoptera, including the rare O. miranda and O. andromache.— 
Mr. Gibbs, a long and very variable series of Argynnis adippe, cap- 
tured in the Vosges Mountains this season, including fine examples 
of var. cleodoxa, and some very brilliant undersides.—Mr. T. W. Hall, 
a drawer of hybrid Lepidoptera, including Smerinthus ocellatus x 
populi, Notodonta ziczac x dromedarius, Selenca tetralunaria Xx bi- 
lunaria, and Ennomos erosaria x fuscantaria. — Dr. Hodgson, a 
selected series of Plebetws argus (egon) from various localities.— 
Mr. Step, about fifty photographs of fungi found in 1908.—Rev. E. 
Tarbat, a box containing examples of forty-one species of Lepido- 
ptera taken at Fareham, settling on a white wall in the full glare of 
a strong electric light, including Stawropus fagi, Hpunda mgra, 
Luperina cespitis, Nonagria typhe, &e. He also showed a Melitea 
aurinia with unusually small spotting; a Teniocampa gothica, with 
the ‘character’? reduced to two small spots; and a Malacosoma 
neustria with a very broad, uniformly wide band across the fore 
wings.—Mr. West (Greenwich), his collection of British Homoptera, 
including a series of Idiocerus rutilans, a species new to Britain, and 
a specialised series of the innumerable forms of Philenus spumarius. 
—Mr. W. Lucas, a large number of photographs illustrating the life- 
histories of the denizens of the Scotch fir—Mr. Pennington, a box 
of varieties of British Lepidoptera, including var. fowleri of Agriades 
corydon.—Mr. Stanley Edwards, several species of exotic Papilio, 
among them being P. domasepe, P. telearchus, P. slateri, P. cannus, 
&c., which mimic different species of Danaine butterflies—Rey. W. 
Wheeler, a case containing the species and forms of Apatura obtain- 
able from the Alps; a case of the closely allied species and forms of 
the athalia group of the genus Melit@a; and a case of the smaller 
