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rous mimics. — Mr. B. W. Adkin, numerous aberrations of Agriades- 

 thetis and A. coridon, taken at Eastbourne in September, 1916. — 

 Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a book bought from a street barrow, ' The Aye- 

 aye,' by Sir Richard Owen, inscribed " To P. B. du Chaillu, from his 

 friend and well-wisher, Riehd. Owen"; a post-card illustrating a' 

 Fowling Scene from the wall of a tomb at Thebes B.C. 1500, on 

 which were portrayed five figures of butterflies ; and a photograph 

 of the cases of the more obtainable British Psychids, and read 

 notes on the characteristics and life-histories of the species. — Mr. 

 H. Moore, a number of species of Nearctic and Neotropical Sphirigidce. 

 ■ — -Mr. Frohawk, the two sexes of Eiigonia jjolychloros, and pointed 

 out that the only secondary sexual character of distinction was the 

 hitherto unnoted fact of the males possessing considerably larger 

 eyes. — Mr. Bunnett, the nymph cases of a species of caddis-fly.— 

 — Mr. Adkin read a short paper, " The Weather of 1916 and the 

 Butterflies of Eastbourne." — Mr. Frohawk, a letter from Tipperary 

 dated 1895, describing a butterfly existing there, which apparently 

 was Limenitis sibylla. 



April 26th, 1917.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, President, in the chair. 

 — Exhibition of orders other than Lepidoptera. — Mr. H. Main 

 exhibited living specimens of ScarabcBUs, from Malta and Sicily, and 

 specimens of the oil-beetle Meloe, with cells containing the bees, 

 Anthrophora pilipes, on which it is parasitic. — Mr. K. G. Blair, 

 (1) living gall-flies, Aphilothrix radicis, and the " truffle " gall from 

 which they emerged ; (2) Psammochares cardui, a new species of 

 Pompilid bee recently described by Dr. Perkins ; and (3), on behalf 

 of Dr. C. J. Gahan, a living specimen of the Death- Watch beetle, 

 Xestobium tessalatum, which responded to stimulus by tapping. — 

 Mr. W. West (Epsom), an ancient Microscope, date 1780. — Mr. H. 

 Moore, a large number of insects from Demerara, ants, bees, wasps, 

 flies, mantids, locusts, and Hemiptera, including Menihracidce. — Mr, 

 Ashdown, Swiss and North Italian Coleoptera, taken in 1914, 

 including about forty species of Longicorns. — Mr. Lucas, a collec- 

 tion of British earwigs and coloured enlarged drawings of the North 

 Forest cricket {Nemobms sylvestris) and of the giant earwig {Labi- 

 dura riparia). — Mr. Lachlan Gibb, a case of the American " bag- 

 worm," Thyridopteryx ephemerczformis, a large Psychid. — Mr. West 

 (Greenwich), his collection of British Homoptera and drawers from 

 the Society's reference collections of Coleoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, 

 Hymenoptera, and Orthoptera. — Mr. Turner, various species of 

 British IchneumonidcB, British Hymenoptera, and Europern Coleop- 

 tera. — Mr. Adkin, a copy of Fuessly's ' Archives de I'Histoire des 

 Insectes,' 1794. — Mr. Edwards, boxes of Exotic Coleoptera, Cicadidce, 

 and Hemiptera. — Hy. J. Turner. 



May lQth.~yLv. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— 

 The death of two members was announced, Mr. A. J. Scollick and 

 Mr. F. H. Stallman, the latter from wounds in France. — Mr. R. 

 Adkin exhibited specimens of Bhyacionia {Betinia) purdeyi taken in 

 Lewisham, and read notes on the history of the species as British. 

 — Mr. Blair, a stem of aspen burrowed by the larva of the beetle 

 Saperda popidnea at Longicorn, in which the burrows were slit open 

 no doubt by birds. — Mr. Hugh Main, specimens of the oil-beetle 



