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November 28th, 1905.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the 

 chair. — The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited the whole of his collection of 

 Chrysids ; one boxful of British ones comprising a nearly complete set 

 of those known to occur in this country, and including such rarities as 

 Heibjcriditim coriaceion, Dhlb., of which five specimens were shown, 

 which are probably all that have been taken in this country. Also six 

 boxes containing the Palajaretic collection, which was wonderfully rich 

 and complete. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a very fine collection of Lepi- 

 doptera received from New Guinea. — Golbkan J. Wainwright, Hun. Sec. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 December 5th. — Annual Meeting. — Exhibits : — Mr. Cockayne, H. 

 leucophcEaria, thinly scaled, Oxford, February, 1903 ; also A. leporina 

 ab. melanocephala, from Warrington. Mr. Edelsten, N. sparganii, 

 male, with upper wings powdered with black scales and an extra black 

 spot above the reuiform. Mr. Hamling, E. luteolata ab., bred May, 

 1905, the ground colour being pale, with usual markings on costa very 

 indistinct, and the apical blotch absent. Mr. A. Harrison, A. leporina, 

 from Delamere Forest, with black thorax and abdomen and fore wings 

 suffused with smoky black ; a melanic series of C. duplaris from 

 Simonswood Moss, Lancashire ; A. ashu-orthii, second brood bred in 

 October, from ova laid by imagines reared from larvte taken in North 

 Wales in the spring. Mr. Pickett, a long series of hybrid S. popuH x 

 ocellatHs; also specimens of hybrid C. curtida x rechisa, S.illunaria x 

 ilhistraria, and X dromedariiis x ziczac, the latter resembling the first 

 species in size and colouring, but having the " pebble " markings of 

 ziczac. Mr. J. Riches, 0. fjonostigma, second brood, bred, from Brent- 

 wood. Mr. Shaw, a long series of B. muralis, Torquay, July, 1905, 

 varying from very pale to dark green and olive forms. — The treasurer's 

 and secretaries' reports having been read, and the officers and council 

 for 1906 elected, Mr. A. W. Mera read his presidential address. — 

 S. J. Bell, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



We regret to hear that Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster, died on 

 December 10th. Throughout a long life she seems to have been 

 devotedly attached to the study of Natural History, but with a special 

 leaning to the insects, and those more especially that were to be ob- 

 served in her own district. Her unique opportunities for investigating 

 the life-history of Grapta c-alhum, and also that of Eupithecia consignata, 

 were turned to good account, and it is probable that many cabinets 

 owe their series of each of these insects to her generosity. Mrs. 

 Hutchinson contributed many interesting notes, and longer articles, to 

 the entomological journals from time to time. In the ' Entomologist ' 

 for 1881 there is an article from her pen, in which she disproves a 

 suggestion that had been made that G. c-album was becoming extinct 

 in England. The careful manner in which she reared those species of 

 Lepidoptera in which she was specially interested is shown in the case 

 of F. consignata, of which species she presented twelve specimens to the 

 National Collection in 1903. Ten of these were bred in April, 1903, 

 and were the direct descendants of a female captured in April, 1874. 



