142 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
exotic spider, found in his orchid house at Blackheath. Mr. 
H. Goss exhibited two remarkable varieties of the male of 
Argynnis paphia, taken in Sussex and Hampshire respectively. 
Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled “ Descriptions 
and remarks upon five new Noctuid Moths from Japan.” The 
Rev. W. W. Fowler read a paper on “‘ New genera and species of 
Languriide,” chiefly from specimens in the collections of the 
British Museum, the Cambridge Museum, Mr. Lewis’s Ceylon 
collection, and the collection of the Rev. H. S. Gorham. In 
alluding to a species described in this paper, Mr. Champion 
remarked that he had taken the elongate form, and also the 
broader form, on trees as well as on low herbage in Central 
America. Dr. Sharp remarked that Mr. Lewis’s experience of 
the habits of the species in Ceylon appeared to have been different. 
Dr. Sharp read a paper “‘ On some proposed transfers of generic 
names.” ‘This paper called attention to a practice advocated by 
Mons. Des Gozis, which was apparently extending on the 
Continent, of transferring the names of some of the commonest 
genera to other genera. The extreme confusion caused by the 
practice was pointed out, and the author showed briefly that the 
theory on which Mons. Des Gozis’s system was based was as 
unsound as the practice itself was objectionable. Considerable 
discussion followed the reading of this paper, in which the Rev. 
W. W. Fowler, Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. M‘Lachlan, Dr. Sharp, 
Mr. Pascoe, and Mr. Dunning took part. The last-named 
gentleman said that the discussion reminded him of a similar 
one, on the application of the law of priority to genera, which 
took place at a meeting of the Society nearly twenty years ago. 
The project was then condemned as unanimously as that of 
Mons. Des Gozis had been that evening; and he trusted that 
entomologists would hear no more of it.—H. Goss, Secretary. 
Tue Soutn Lonpon EnTomMoLoeicaL AND NAtTurAL History 
Socrety.—April 1st, 1886. R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, 
in the chair.—Messrs. C. H. Watson, G. T. Shearwood, Stanley 
Edwards, A. Beaumont, and B. W. Adkin, were elected members. 
Mr. Goldthwaite exhibited series of Cononympha typhon, Rott., 
and Hrebia ethiops, Esp. Mr. Cooper: Drepana binaria, Hufn., 
D. cultraria, Fb., and Hrastria venustula, Hb., from Hpping 
Forest; imagines and pupa-cases of Hupecilia ambiguella, Hb., 
