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showed a fine example of Fidonia (ttomaria from Shirley Common, 

 taken hy Mr. C. B. Antram in June, 1896 ; it was of a uniform dark 

 brown above and below. 



Febiuarij Ist. — Annual Meetin;/. — The President in the chair. The 

 Annual Reports of the Council, the Treasurer, and the Librarian were 

 presented. Mr. Bethune-Baker was re-elected President ; Mr. P. W. 

 Abbott, Vice-President ; Mr. A. H. Martineau, Librarian ; Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley Hon. Treasurer ; and Mr. C. J. Wainwright, Hon. Secretary. 

 Exhibits : — Mr. J. T. Fountain, CirrJuedui xeranipelina and Luperina 

 cespitis, both taken in the Pershore Road, close to Birmingham ; also 

 Erehia Uandina from Aberdeenshire, and a number of Swiss Erebias 

 and other Rhopalocera. By Mr. P. W. Abbott, a series of Cucullia 

 chamomillm from Sutton, at various dates ; they were all very dark 

 specimens, excepting one, which was taken in 1894 and was rather 

 small and very pale. By Mr. Cutler, specimens of Arctia caia, one 

 pale and one very dark, but crippled ; both from the same batch 

 of larval", and reared together. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



North London Natural History Societv. — The fifth Annual 

 Exhibition was held in the Lecture Hall at the N.E. London Institute, 

 on Saturday, January 2nd, 1897. The exhibits were, if anything, 

 even more numerous than last year. Tlie entomological department 

 was, as usual, the best represented, but botany was also very much to 

 the fore. Lantern illustrations were once more on view, Mr. Wattson 

 contributing " Life in a Pond," and Dr. Gerard Smith attracting great 

 attention with photo-micrographs illustrative of plant morphology, 

 marine zoology, &c. Short lectures were delivered during the evening, 

 by Mr. Bacot " On behalf of Insects," by Mr. Wattson on " Pond Life," 

 and by others. The exhibition was unanimously admitted to be the 

 best the Society had yet held. — Lawrence J. Tremayne, Hon. Sec. 



The Entomological Club. — Since our last report the following 

 meetings of the Entomological Club have been held, namely: — On 

 July 7th, 1896, at the residence of Mr. Samuel Stevens, when the 

 time-honoured " strawberry feast," which in the olden days was held 

 annually in the neighbourhood of the then prolific hunting-ground of 

 Birch-wood Corner, was duly celebrated ; on November 24th, at the 

 residence of Mr. Robert Adkin; and on January 19th, 1897, at the 

 Holboru Restaurant, when Mr. G.H. Verrall entertained representatives 

 of leading entomological associations and others, to the number of 

 about fifty. At this meeting a resolution was unanimously passed by 

 the members present that the Club collections should be placed in the 

 custody of the South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. These collections contain, among other interesting material, 

 certain type specimens, and it is hoped that when deposited with the 

 above Society their usefulness will be increased by their being more 

 easily accessible than is now the case. 



