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captured between Dover and Walmer in 1843, and was still in perfect 

 condition. Lord Dormer showed a remarkable openwork cocoon of an 

 unknown Japanese moth, constructed from the larval hairs. Mr. 

 Jacoby exhibited fine examples of both sexes of the Australian 

 Hepiaiids, Cluiragria ramsaiji, C. sjjleiidens, and Hepialus daphnandri. 

 Mrs. Nicholl exhibited a selection from the butterflies collected by her 

 this year, in June and July, in the Albarraciu Mountains in Aragon, 

 containing several additions to the list of the district published in 

 Madrid by Canon Zapater and Herr Max Korb. The species of greatest 

 nitevQsi y^evQ Erebia zapatcri, Oberth. ; Cicnonywpha iphioides, iStaud. ; 

 Sati/ms prieuri, Pier., and its fulvous female var. nhagonis, which was 

 observed to be much more attractive to the males than the normal 

 form was ; An/ijnnis hecate, Esp. ; and Parnnssius apollo, L., of which a 

 female variety occurred, with red-centred ocelli on the upper side of the 

 fore wing. The Rev. H. S. Gorham showed examples of the following 

 rare beetles from the New Forest : — Kotiophilus rufipes; Vellcins dilatalus, 

 four specimens, of which two were found in copula ; Trichonyx sulcicollis ; 

 and a single example of Lytta vcsicatoria from Shirley Warren. Mr. Tutt 

 showed a series of Noctu^, taken at Romford by the Rev. W. Claxton, 

 all of aberrant form ; and for Mr. J. Merrin, a specimen of Vcoiessa urtictc 

 with a silvery costal spot on the under side of the fore wings, a series 

 of Melitcen aurinia, and an example of Si/richthus mahue ab. taras, 

 taken near Gloucester. Mr. Kirkaldy exhibited a complete series of 

 species of the genus Notonecta, L. ; specimens of the larva and imago of 

 the very rare Deinostoma dilntatum (Say), from Arizona; and specimens 

 of Antipalocoiis marshalli, Scott, from Ceylon, which was previously 

 recorded from Corsica alone. Papers were communicated by the 

 President on "New or little-known Species of African Butterflies," 

 and by Mr. E. Meyrick on " New Lepidoptera from Australia and New 

 Zealand." 



iVor. 17(/i.—Mr.R.McLachlan,F.R.S., Vice-President and Treasurer, 

 in the chair. The chairman referred with regret to the death, while 

 serving on the Indian Frontier Expedition, of Capt. E. Y. Watson, 

 Fellow of the Society, and well known for his writings on Oriental 

 Rhopalocera. Miss E. F. Chawner, of Forest Bank, Lyndhurst ; Mr. 

 F. N. Brown, M.R.C.S., of the Elms, Chobham, and Natal; Mr. 

 Albert Harrison, F.G.S., of 72, Windsor Road, Forest Gate; Mr. Albert 

 Noiris, of Church Lane, Napier, New Zealand ; Mr. Stephen Pegler, 

 of Retford, Notts : Mr. Edward G. J. Sparke, B.A., of 1, Christchurch 

 Villas, Tooting Bee Road, S.W. ; and Mr. Wilmot Tunstall, of Brook 

 House, Meltham, near Huddersfield, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. Mr. Selwyn Image exhibited male examples of Pieris brassicee, 

 with a black spot on the disc of the fore wings. They were bred from 

 larvae found feeding on Tropmdum at Lee, N. Devon, m the autumn of 

 1896, and six out of ten males showed this variation. He also showed 

 a dark aberration of Vanessa urticir., taken at Copthorne in Sussex; and 

 exhibited two fine specimens of Plusia moncta taken at valerian, near 

 Balcombe, Sussex, on June 30th, 1897. Mr. M. Burr exhibited three 

 new species of Rumanian Orthoptera in illustration of a later com- 

 munication. On behalf of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Mesilla, New 

 Mexico, two specimens of Sync/doe lacinia from that locality were 

 exhibited, to show the remarkable forms of variation found in indi- 



