286 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
“On the Tea-bugs of India and Java.” During the meeting a 
telegram was received from Mr. Freeman, of Plymouth, an- 
nouncing the recent capture, in Cornwall, of Anosia plexippus.— 
H. Goss, Secretary. 
Tue Sourn Lonpon EntTomoxoeicat AND NaturAL Hisrory 
Soctety. October 7th, 1886.—R. Adkin, Esq. F.E.S., President, 
in the chair. Mr. Billups exhibited Hchthrus lancifer, a species 
of Hymenoptera new to Britain, taken by him at Walmer in 
August last, and contributed notes on the genus Hchthrus. 
Mr. West (Streatham), a bred series of Spilosoma fuliginosa. 
Mr. Wellman, examples of second broods of Melanippe tristata, 
Acidalia emarginata, A. rusticata, and A. strigilaria, all reared 
from ova. Mr. Jager, Callimorpha hera (including the variety 
lutescens) taken in the south of Devon; a number of forms of 
Bryophila muralis from Dawlish, the whole series showing a local 
tendency. Mr. J. T. Williams, Hupithecia linariata, bred from 
larvee taken July last, which fed up and emerged in about fourteen 
days. Mr. South, Sesia culiciformis, short series of Mimeseoptilus 
zophodactylus and M. bipunctidactyla; series of Thera variata 
from Switzerland, England and Scotland; and contributed notes 
with reference to this latter exhibit. Mr. Elisha, Agrotis ash- 
worthii and Dasycampa rubiginea. Mr. Adkin, a number of 
species of Lepidoptera from Hast Sussex, among which were 
varieties of the under sides of Lyce@na icarus and LL. corydon, 
forms of Crambus tristellus, C. geniculeus, and Diasemia literata ; 
and he contributed notes on this last-mentioned species. Mr. 
J.J. Weir, a variety of Apameis cardui from Graham’s Town; a 
white and black specimen of Colias electra from the same 
locality, showing that that species exhibited a similar dimorphic 
condition of the female to that which obtains in C. edusa. Mr. 
Weir adverted to a note of Mr. G. D. Hulst (‘ Entomologica 
Americana,’ li. 104), August, 1886, in which it was stated that 
the name Anosia plexippus was the name the British Museum 
gave to an insect the rest of the lepidopterological world called 
Danais archippus. Mr. Weir, after quoting several authors, said 
both the generic name Anosia and the specific name plexippus 
were long ago applied to this insect, the latter, indeed, for more 
than a century and a quarter. Mr. Cooper exhibited a brightly 
coloured variety of Vanessa wurtice. Mr. Sabine, a variety of 
