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paper " On a new subfamily of Pyralid^e," living larvae of Hypotia 

 coj-ticalis, Schiff, as well as preserved larvfe, pupa-cases, imagines, and 

 prepared wings to show the neuration of tliat species. — Mr. Edward 

 Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S., communicated "Descriptions of new Australa- 

 sian Lepidoptera." — Mr. W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., communicated a 

 " Eeport on a Collection of African Locustidfe, chiefly from the Trans- 

 vaal, made by Mr. W. L. Distant." — H, Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 January mh, 1902.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. Tonge, Eedhill, Surrey, was elected a member. — 

 Mr. Hewitt exhibited a specimen of the rare Homopteron, Cicadetta 

 viontana, taken flying in Stubby Copse, New Forest, on July 7th. — Mr. 

 R. Adkin, five specimens of Melanlppe yaliata, which emerged on 

 Dec. 8th last, in a cage outdoors and protected only from rain and 

 direct sunshine. The ova were laid towards the end of August. — Mr. 

 McArthur, specimens of Triphmia comes, bred on Dec. 26th and 27th, 

 from ova laid in July by an Isle of Lewis female. — Mr. Main, slides 

 made by himself of the larvfe of Sumia cecropia, and of Aniphidasys 

 hetnlaria ; of the imago of Pleris napi, drying its wings after emergence 

 from the chrysalis case ; and of a batch of ova of Macrothylacia rubi 

 on a sprig of heather. 



January 23/7/. — Annual Meeting, Mr. F. Noad Clark, Vice-President, 

 in the chair. — The Twenty-ninth Annual Report was read, and showed 

 that the Society was in a very satisfactory condition, both in member- 

 ship and finances ; and had carried on with much success its educa- 

 tional and scientific work. The present number of members is 174, 

 and the balance-sheet showed a very fair balance, with no liabilities. — 

 The following is a list of the Officers and Council elected for the ensuing 

 year : — President, F. Noad Clark ; Vice-Presidents, H. S. Fremlin, 

 M.R.O.S., F.E.S. ; E.^ Step, F.L.S. ; Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S.; 

 Librarian, H. A. Sauze; Curator, W. West; Hon. Secretaries, Stanley 

 Edwards, F.L.S., F.E.S. , Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; Council, W. J. 

 Ashdown, J. H. Carpenter, F.E.S., T. A. Chapman, M.D., F,E.S. ; 

 A. Harrison, F.C.S., F.L.S. ; W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. ; H. Main, 

 B.Sc, F.E.S., and J. W. Tutt, F.E.S.— Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a long 

 series of Acidalia aversata, and read notes on their life-history and 

 variation. — Mr. Garrett, a living specimen of Dasychira pudibunda, 

 which had just emerged in the open. — Dr. Chapman, forms illustra- 

 tive of the geographical races in Spain and Switzerland of the butter- 

 flies Polyommatus corydon, Lyccena daman, and L. hylas. — Hy. J. 

 Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — December 16th, 1901. — Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. A. H. Martineau 

 showed Hymenoptera from Tubney, near Oxford, in Berks, a sandy 

 locality ; they included Cleptes pallipes, Crabro palmarius, and Nyssa 

 dimidiatus. — Mr. A. D. Imms showed empty cocoons and pupa-shells 

 of (Ecojjhora sulphurella, from Moseley. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a 

 collection of Liptenre and Pentilffi, subfamilies of the Lycfenidfe, from 

 South Africa, which are remarkably mimetic ; some were strikingly 

 like Acraeidse ; others were very like Pieridfe, like some Geometridas 

 and many other groups of Lepidoptera, the resemblance being in 



