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which he exhibited the whole of his collection, comprising more 

 than three-fourths of the indigenous species. The Society exhibited 

 its type collection of Orthoptera. Mr. H. T. Dobson was the only 

 exhibitor of Odonata, by a collection of species made by him last year 

 on the Norfolk Broads, including Aischnn isosceles, LAhelhda fulva, 

 L. diihia, Sympotrnm aanguincum, &c. Mr. Stanley Edwards showed a 

 very handsome case of working bees, Apis mellijxca, and also an 

 observation nest of living ants, Formica fiava. 



In the Foreign Section Mr. C. Boxer exhibited a small collection of 

 South African butterflies. Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a large 

 number of exotic Lepidoptera from his extensive collection, including 

 several sections of the genus Papilio, a number of the larger j\[orpho 

 species, and series of several species of each of the genera Urania, 

 Nyctalenwn, Thais, Armandia, Teinopalpus, Euri/cus and Sericimis. Mr. 

 A. Hall, an extremely fine collection of the various species of the genus 

 Catagramma and its allies from South America, together with series of 

 forms and aberrations of Apatura iris and A. ilia. Mr. W. J. Kaye 

 showed more than two hundred specimens of butterflies taken in one 

 forest path in British Guiana, to illustrate the principal mimetic 

 groups of the locality. They were of the following sections : — 

 Danainas, Nymphalinje, Heliconinaj, Ithomiinae, and Erycinidae. 

 Mr. McArthur exhibited a case containing the largest and smallest 

 known species of Lepidoptera, viz., Thysinia aurippina from South 

 America, and Nepticula priiiietoruni. Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a 

 number of Spanish Lepidoptera, including fine series of the purely 

 Spanish Satyrus pieari and Erebia zapateri, together with series of 

 Argynnis pcmdora, A. niobe var. eris, &c. 



The Society exhibited several drawers of its collection of 

 Canadian Lepidoptera. Mr. J. W. Tutt exhibited long series of 

 several species of Continental butterflies with a number of paltearctic 

 extra-European species for comparison — (1), Euchlo'e euphenoides, 

 males very variable in size, females extremely dissirqilar in the 

 amount of orange marking at the tip of the fore wmg, with E. eupheno 

 from Morocco ; (2), Leptosia siuapis, spring form from the Riviera ; 

 (3), Purarge egeria, with every possible gradation between the dark 

 form of Britain and the bright-tinted southern form ; (4), P. megcera, 

 with very interesting Corsicau forms ; (5), FolyommaUis bellargus and 

 P. corydon, including tlie sky-blue Spanish form of the latter species 

 as well as the white form, and most interesting as showing the lines 

 the variation takes in the two species ; (6), long series of Chrysophanus 

 tirgaurea, C. alciphron including var. gordius, and C. hippothoe in- 

 cluding many exceedingly fine, distinct, and extreme forms from many 

 localities, the females in particular running into most beautiful forms. 

 Mr. West, of Greenwich, a specimen of the Goliath beetle from West 

 Africa. Mr. H. Moore, a number of large European and exotic 

 Orthoptera and a drawer of European ^dipodidie. Mr. Edwards, 

 cases of exotic Phasmidfe and Mantidse. 



The walls and screens were covered by a large number of photo- 

 graphs and photomicrographs of biological subjects. Mr. F. Noad 

 Clark showed many minute insect structures ; Mr. J. Edwards, insects 

 and spiders in their environment; Mr. Goulton, lepidopterous larvfe in 



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