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abnormal, both the black and yellow bands of all the ocelli, except 

 that nearest to the anal angle, being so much enlarged as to run into 

 one another, forming a black streak surrounded by yellow, covering 

 the greater part of the wing and traversed by the wing rays, which 

 were dusted over with yellow scales ; the pupils of three of the ocelli 

 were quite normal, that of the fourth (next to the costal margin) was 

 barely visible. 



A meeting of the Society was held on Oct. 29th. Mr. Panen 

 exhibited Hesperia lineola, from Burwell Fen; Folia a-anthomista, from 

 the Isle of Man ; Dasycampa ruhiciinea (reared), from Reading, and 

 Ajdecta occulta, from Rannoch. Mr. Lefroy exhibited specimens of 

 some salt-water insects from South Wales ; a beetle {OxyUhius lego- 

 leniis) and its larva ; a rat-tailed maggot resembling Eristalis; and two 

 Chironomid larvae, with the pupa and fly of one of them. They 

 live in small salt pools on the face of a cliff, about ten feet above high 

 tide, the saltness of the water varying greatly from time to time. 

 Dr. Sharp exhibited a small portion of the collection of Carabidae 

 made by Mr. Perkins in the Hawaiian Islands for a committee of the 

 Eoyal Society and British Association. Seven or eight hundred 

 specimens, representing five or six very closely allied forms, were shown. 

 He stated that these forms were so extremely closely allied that it 

 was reasonable to consider them as modifications of one species that 

 had undergone change in connection with difference of locality. 

 Some of the forms, however, were from the same island, so that it 

 was not possible to consider the geographical isolation as the imme- 

 diate or sole cause of the distinctions. 



Nonpareil Entomological and Natural History Society. — Annual 

 General Meeting, October 1th, 1897. — Officials elected for Session 

 1897-8 :— President, Mr. Thomas Jackson; Vice-President, Mr. W. 

 Stevens ; Curator, Mr. W. Harbur ; Secretary, Mr. F. West; Treasurer, 

 Mr. H. Blake ; Reporting Secretary, Mr. F. A. Newbery ; Librarian, 

 Mr. F. Craft; Trustees, Messrs. Huckett and Gurney ; Committee, 

 Messrs. Huckett, Gurney, Norman, Cooper, Moore, W. Harpur, Butt, 

 Lusby, Samson, and Pickett. Mr. J. A. Clarke exhibited a choice and 

 variable series of Aryynnis aglaia taken at Bevendene, near Brighton. 

 Among them were some fine forms, many being greatly suffused. Mr. 

 Clarke contributed a nice box of insects to the Society's cabinet. Mr. 

 Pickett exhibited three curious cocoons from Guildford ; one taken 

 last year had no opening ; and of the other two (both taken this year), 

 one had two openings — one at each end — and the remaining one con- 

 tained three pupas ; also remarkable vars. of Lyccena corydon, taken at 

 Dover on August Bank Holiday last. Two female specimens varied 

 on the under side, one being larger than usual and had the black spots 

 large in prpoortion. One under side was minus the black spots. Of 

 the females there was a splashed var., one dwarf, another very dark 

 under side, and a specimen in which the three spots on the under 

 side were confluent, and formed a short black streak. Two examples 

 of Nemeophila plantaginis taken at Folkestone, one being of the normal 

 type, and the other a specimen in which the yellow on the under 

 wings was replaced by bright red. Mr. Sampson exhibited a series of 

 specimens, varying from light to dark, of Eugonia angularia, all bred 

 from a female taken in Monk Wood. — F. A. Newbery, Rep. Secretary. 



