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viduals occurring at the same time and place and on the same flowers. 

 Mrs. Nicholl communicated a paper " Ou the Butterflies of Aragon," 

 and Mr. Burr a " List of Rumanian Orthoptera." Mr. Tutt read a 

 paper entitled " Some Results of Recent Experiments in hybridizing 

 Tephivsia bistortata and T. crepuscidaria." — W. F. H. Blandford, 

 Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 September 23>y/, 1897.— Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S. President, in the chair. 

 Dr. Chapman, F.E.S., Elmscroft, Red Hill, was elected a member. 

 Mr. Malcolm Burr presented to the Society's museum an almost 

 complete collection of British Orthoptera. Mr. Auld exhibited, series 

 of Tcipinostola bondii, from Folkestone ; of Caradrina ambigua, from 

 Devon, where it has been somewhat common this year ; of Dianthcecia 

 nana, from Shetland ; and of Tceniocampa gothica, also from Shetland. 

 Mr. Adkin, bred series of D. nana from Shetland larvse, showing much 

 variation. On behalf of Mr. de V. Kane, a specimen of Larentia 

 Jiavicinctata taken in Antrim. Mr. Tutt, on behalf of Mr. Dutton, a 

 very fine and variable series of Abraxas sylvata [ulmata). A good pro- 

 portion of the specimens were smoky or partially smoky, and these 

 seemed somewhat thinly scaled ; and as they were slightly crumpled 

 and difficult to set, Mr. Dutton had suggested that the aberrations 

 were due to malnutrition. Mr. Tutt also sliowed three species of Asca- 

 laphiis which he had captured in the Southern Alps, together with two 

 species of ant-lion. Mr. Burr, a specimen of Flujllocrania illudens, a 

 mantis from Madagascar, with the leaves with which it is found. It 

 is an extraordinary example of adaptation to surroundings, being very 

 difficult to find even when attention is called to it in a small box. Mr. 

 Turner, specimens of the hawk-fly, Asilus crabroniformis, from Seaton, 

 Devon, and a series of the hemipteron, Enoplops scapha, taken over a 

 very restricted area in the same locality on the leaves of coltsfoot. A 

 paper was read entitled, " The British Day Butterflies, and the 

 Changes in the Wings of Butterflies," communicated by Prof. A. 

 Radcliffe Grote, A.M., in which he at some length explained his views 

 as to the evolution of the venation, illustrated his remarks by, and 

 applied his theory to, the British butterflies, criticised the work of 

 Mr. Meyrick, and more fully explained himself to his own critics. 



October 14:th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Mansbridge 

 exhibited varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, bred this season from 

 Horaforth larvae. The aberrant forms were not so numerous this year, 

 but the line of variation was similar to that observed in former years, 

 viz. a gradual suflusion of the fore wings with the black colour. Mr. 

 South, two specimens of Pieris rapa taken at Folkestone in Septem- 

 ber, by Mr. Sabine, each having a spot on the hind wings between 

 veins 3 and 4 ; he noticed the same peculiarity in some specimens of 

 P. napi, and said that the same variation occurred in some allied 

 Chinese Pierids. Two specimens of CaUimorpha domviuda var. rossica, 

 obtained from Dover by Mr. Sabine, and a bred series of Acidalia 

 inornata, were also exhibited by Mr. South. Mr. H. Montgomery, on 

 behalf of Mr. E. Montgomery, a series of bred P. napi, including 

 specimens with traces of an additional spot, and read notes on the 

 variation shown in the series. He also exhibited an aberrant speci- 



