Il8 TiEiE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— /anwary 25^/i, 1917.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair.— Annual Meeting. — The balance sheet and report of the 

 Council were read and adopted. The President declared the following 

 elected to fill the several offices and Council for the ensuing year : 

 President, H. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, E. Adkin, F.E.S., 

 and A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; 

 Librarian, A. W. Dods ; Curator, W. West ; Editor of ' Proceedings,' 

 H. J. Turner, F.E.S. ; Hon. Secretary, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. ; Council, S. K. Ashby, F.E.S., W. J. Ashdown, K. G. Blair, 

 B.Sc, G. Brooks, F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S., M.B.O.U., D. E. Morford, 



C. W. Sperring, A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., and W. West, L.D.S.— The 

 Pi'esident then read his address, " Shakespeare and Insects." — Votes 

 of thanks were passed to the various officers and Council for the past 

 year. 



February 8th, 1917. — The President in the chair. — The Eev. 



D. M. Darwell, of Dagpole, Woodeford Wells, was elected a member. — 

 Mr. A. W. Buckstone exhibited series of Zygana lonicercB, Z. trifolii, 

 and Z. filipeiidula from many British localities, and read a paper 

 on the local racial characters shown, and gave an analysis of the 

 markings on the undersides. A short discussion ensued. — Mr. 

 Hugh Main, the curious double cocoons spun by a species of 

 Couiopteryx. — Mr. H. Moore, various Bombycine moths from 

 Ashanti, including Bunea alcinoe, Lohohunea phcedusa, Gynanisa 

 ethra, Nudaurelia butleri, Imbrasia epimethea, Microgone hcrilla, and 

 Carnegia mirabilis. — Mr. Bowman, a unicolorous slate - coloured 

 example of Cuspidia (Acronicta) megacephala from Hackney Downs. 



February 22nd. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — An exhibition of lantern slides. — Mr. West (Ashtead), slides 

 showing androconial scales of several species in each of the families 

 of butterflies represented in the British fauna. — Mr. Hugh Main, 

 slides showing (1) ova of the earwig m situ ; (2) a series of details 

 of the life-history of a small burrowing beetle common in Epping 

 Forest ; (3) a series illustrative of the transformations of Dytiscus 

 marginalis ; (4) a series of the habits of the larva of Gicindela 

 campestris. — Mr. Bunnett, slides illustrating all stages of a colony of 

 Vanessa io and a few of the Hydra and Volvox globator. 



March 8th. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair.— The death of Mr. A. E. Gibbs, Vice-President, was reported. 

 Mr. W. J. x\shdown exhibited examples of all the species of Surrey 

 Coleoptera, which he had taken during the season of 1916. Beetles 

 were generally abundant throughout the year. — Mr. Newman read a 

 short paper, " The Eearing of Macrothylacia rubi." 



March 227id.—MY. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 — Mr. A. Buckstone exhibed series of the March and July broods of 

 Tephrosia bistortata, bred from an Oxshott female taken in x\pril, 

 1914, including a female which had remained in pupa two vyinters 

 from June, 1914, to February, 1916. He also showed T. cre2)uscularia, 



