268 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



amusement to all except the contractor, who was compelled to 

 pumice-stone their corpses off to make the place presentable. — 

 ' Stamford and Rutland Guardian,' August 14, 1885. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — An ordinary meeting was held at the Society's rooms, 

 1, Denman Street, Southwark, S.E., September 3rd, 1885, the 

 President, Mr. R. South, in the chair. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited some very interesting specimens 

 from the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, captured there by 

 Mr. Farini, viz., species of Arachnida, Orthoptera, the curious 

 toad -grasshopper, Batrachotettix bufo, also a species of Ma7itis, 

 and a piece of a sand-hill, containing some of the white ants by 

 which it was formed. Mr. Weir briefly referred to the peculiarities 

 of habit and structure of the insects exhibited. 



Mr. Janson, who was present as a visitor, exhibited a specimen 

 of Sphinx convolvidi, taken on the knocker of a door in Victoria 

 Road, Finsbury Park ; and Mr. Gurney, also a visitor, a fine variety 

 of Chelonia caia, in which the spots of the hind wings unite and 

 form a band. 



Mr. South exhibited some curious varieties of Zygcena 

 Jilipendulce, Chelonia caia, Abraxas grossidariata, and Lyccena 

 icarus {alexis) var. icariniis ; and communicated some interesting 

 notes on the Lepidoptera of Folkestone. 



Mr. Billups read a short paper on Homoptera, which he 

 illustrated with numerous specimens ; the same gentleman also 

 brought insects in the orders Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera, 

 and Hymenoptera. 



Mr. Adkin (Vice-President) exhibited a fine series oi Dicranura 

 furcida and Pseudoterpna j^ruinata [cytisaria), bred, and Acidalia 

 inornata. Mr. Chaney showed a box of Coleoptera, and Mr. Cook 

 a box of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Hall exhibited a striking variety of Abraxas grossidariata, 

 the only variety bred from 380 larvae, some 180 of which were 

 ichneumoned. Mr. Helps brought larvse of Lophopteryx camelina, 

 Mr. Hickling a strongly-marked specimen of Argynnis aglaia, 

 and Mr. W. A. Pearce a box of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited a fine series of Eupithecia rectangulata 

 var. nigrosericeata, and specimens of Psaniotis pulveralis, Acidalia 

 strigilaria, and Gnophos obscuraria var. calceata. Mr. J. T. Williams 

 exhibited Sphinx convolvuli, a series of bred Plusia chryson 



