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upon external and visibly manifest utility, a restriction which he did 

 not believe to be warranted by facts. He argued in favour of a con- 

 nection of the nature of correlation between apparently trivial external 

 characters and latent physiological characters of great importance to 

 the welfare of the species. From this point of view it was contended 

 that the diagnostic characters, used for purposes of description did not 

 truly represent tlie sum total of the characters which must be regarded 

 as specific. Tlie President concluded by referring to the losses by 

 death during the year of several Fellows of the Society and other 

 entomologists, special mention being made of Mr. A. S. Olliff, Mr. 

 Edward Armitage, E.A., Mr. Peter Inchbald, Miss G. E. Ormerod, 

 Mons. Auguste Salle, Mr. Arthur Dowsett, Herr Julius Flohr, Mr. J. 

 Chappell, and Dr. Morawitz. A vote of thanks to the President was 

 proposed by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S., seconded by Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, F.R.S., and carried. A vote of thanks to the Officers was 

 then proposed by Prof. Poulton, F.R.S., seconded by Mr. R. Trimen, 

 F.R.S., and carried. Prof. Meldola, Mr. McLachlan, and Mr. Goss 

 replied, and the proceedings terminated. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



Februanj Snl. — Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. The President briefly returned thanks for the honour conferred 

 upon him by his election, and announced that he had appointed as 

 Vice-Presidents, The Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. R. 

 McLachlan, F.R.S., and Professor Meldola, F.R.S. Mr. F. Bates, of 

 417, High Road, Chiswick ; Mr. Dudley d'Auvergne Wright, M.R.C.S.. 

 L.E.C.P., of 55, Queen Anne Street, W. ; and Mrs. E. Brightwen, of 

 The Grove, Great Stanmore, were elected Fellows of the Society. 

 Mr. Champion exhibited an extensive series of Coleoptera collected by 

 Mr. R. W. Lloyd and himself in July last in the Austrian Tyrol, and 

 containing about 450 species, including thirty-five of Longicornia and 

 about twenty of Otiorrhynchus (the most characteristic beetles in the 

 places visited). He also exhibited about eighty-five species of Coleoptera 

 from Cintra, Portugal, collected by Col. Yerbury during the early 

 spring of 1896, the most interesting of these being Carabus iusitanicus, 

 F. Also, on behalf of Mr. W. H. Harwood, two specimens of the rare 

 Zewjophora flavkoUis, Marsh., from Colchester. Mr. Tutt exhibited, 

 for Mr. H. B. Prince, some Lepidoptera, chiefly Nocture, from the 

 Cheshire coast, to show the colour varieties there prevalent. Also, on 

 behalf of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, some typical specimens of Zi/gcBna 

 ochsf'iihei inert, Zell., from Piedmont, and some hybrid Zygfenids, 

 obtained by crossing Z. ochsenheiuieri male with Z. JilipendulcB female. 

 The hybrids were fertile inter se, the males of the cross exhibiting very 

 markedly the characters of the male of Z. ochsenheimeri ; whilst, on the 

 other hand, the females, with two exceptions, strikingly resembled 

 Z.jHipendulie. Mr. Tutt also showed, for Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, a 

 number of obscure British Micro-Lepidoptera, many of which had been 

 regarded as new species. The validity of the determinations was dis- 

 cussed by Lord Walsingham, Mr. B. A. Bower, and others ; and the 

 first-named speaker strongly deprecated the practice of positively 

 recognizing or describing such obscure forms, particularly when 

 British, from single or worn specimens. A suffused aberration of a 

 Gelechiid, taken at Witherslack, and described under the name of 

 Lit I intermedieUa (Ent, Rec. ix. bU) was referred to L. fratemella, Mr. 



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