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emerged beetle could squeeze through. — Professor E. B. Poulton 

 communicated further notes by Mr. A. H. Hamm, which tended to 

 confirm the opinion that Fieris rapcB chooses for prolonged rest a 

 surface on which it will be concealed. — Mr. William John Lucas 

 exhibited diagrams of the instars, and also of the mouth parts of the 

 imago, to illustrate a paper read by him, " On the Emergence of 

 Myrmeiion formicariiis'' — Mr. Martin Jacoby communicated a paper 

 entitled " Descriptions of New Species of African HalticincB and 

 Galerucince." — Mr. Claude Morley communicated a paper "On the 

 Ichneumonidous group, Tryphonides schizodond, Holmgr.,with Descrip- 

 tions of New Species." — ^H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 November ^3rd, 1905.— Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Mr. F. G. Bellamy, of Eltham, was elected a member, — 

 This meeting was devoted to a special exhibition of varieties and 

 notable captures. — Mr. J. P. Barrett exhibited series of Aporia cratmji 

 taken in 1871, in the New Forest; and in 1901-05 in East Kent; 

 together with a variety of Argynnis adippe from Three Bridges, with 

 the markings of the hind wings run into streaks and considerably 

 suffused with black; a form of Melauargia yalatea having the black 

 marking almost wholly confined to the marginal and submarginal 

 areas of all four wings ; and a specimen of Polia xanthomista taken in 

 1904 in East Kent. — Mr. Touge, photo -micrographs of the ova of all 

 the British species of the genera Ennomos, Opombia, Cheimatohia, 

 Anisopteryx, and Hybernia, all the species of a genus being mounted 

 on one card. — Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Antluocera [Zygmia) filipendula;, 

 to illustrate the gradual change in the colour from the typical rich 

 crimson through shades of terra-cotta and pinkish yellow, to a pale 

 clear yellow; also an example in which the four basal spots were 

 united into an irregular elongated patch. He also showed a Pararye 

 megcEva, in which the apical ocellated spot was absent from the right 

 fore wing, there being only a minute black dot. It was also without 

 the ocellus on the under side. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a collection of 

 butterflies from South America, chiefly belonging to the Ithomiince. — 

 Mr. A. Harrison and Mr. H. Main, (1) series of Aplecta nebulosa bred 

 from larvae taken in Delamere Forest. Eleven per cent were of the 

 very dark and black forms, and a considerable number of intermediate 

 forms were obtained. The gradation between the extremes was 

 remarkably regular ; (2) series of Hypsipetes sordidata from Winder- 

 mere, Delamere and Seal bred, and Barmouth captured ; only the first 

 series showed any considerable variation ; (3) a black variety of Agrotis 

 exclumationis from Laucashu'e ; (4) a melauic series of Gymatophora 

 duplaris from Simonswood Moss, where only dark forms seem to occur 

 now ; (5) a Melanippe Jiuctuata with only the costal portion of the 

 central band remaining, and with brownish ground colour ; and (6) a 

 specimen of Acronycta leporina from Delamere Forest with black 

 thorax and abdomen, and with fore wings much suffused with black. — 

 Mr. Stanley Edwards, a collection showing the various groups of the 

 Heliconina?. — Mr. West, of Greenwich, his collection of British 

 Hemiptera, some 431 species, many of which were particularly 

 interesting as having been taken in the near neighbourhood of 



