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made in St. Vincent, alone, had obliged him to seaich the whole of 
Europe and North America for specialists; and similar collections from 
Grenada were still untouched in consequence of the number of workers 
being unequal to the demands upon their time. He observed that the 
extent of the subject of Entomology was so vast that nothing but a 
systematic and continuous effort to amass collections, work them out, and 
preserve them, could place us in a position to proceed safely with the 
larger questions which followed the initial step of naming species; and it 
would only be by the steady effort of our Museum officials, not only to 
work at the subject themselves, but to enlist the aid of every available 
outside worker, that substantial progress could be made. The President 
concluded by referring to the losses by death during the year of several 
Fellows of the Society and other Entomologists, special mention being 
made of Mons. Edmond Andre, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. F. Grut, 
Mr. E. W. Janson, Prof. Felipe Poey, Sir William Macleay, Mr. W. 
H. Edwards, Mr. Robert Gillo, and Dr. J. M. J. Af Tengstrom. 
A vote of thanks to the President and other Officers of the Society 
having been passed, Mr. Godman, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. H. Goss, and 
Mr. Champion replied, and the proceedings terminated. H. Goss, Hon. 
Secretary. 
SoutH Lonpon ENtomoLocicaL anD Naturat History Society.— 
Jan. 14, 1892. Mr. W. H. Tugwell, President, in the chair. Mr. A. 
Harrison, F.C.S., F.R.M.S., was elected a member. Mr. R. Adkin 
exhibited Sesia ichneumoniformis, Fb. Mr. Tugwell remarked that the 
larvee were supposed to feedon Lotus corniculatus. Mr. Weir said it 
used to occur at Charlton, and he thought there was no L. corniculatus in 
that particular locality. Mr. Jager exhibited two examples of Vanessa 
antiopa, L., bred by Mr. Werner, of Biedenkopf, Germany: in one the 
dark band and the blue spots on the primaries were obliterated; in the 
other the yellow border was considerably widened, and entirely absorbed 
the dark band and blue spots, as well as the two costal spots; the border 
was also much diffused with black. Mr. Weir remarked on this species 
occurring so far north as Hudson's Bay. Mr. C. Fenn showed Agrotis 
tritict, L., grey and dark forms from Deal, and dark forms from the North 
of Scotland and Sligo. Mr. Tugwell again exhibited the black specimens 
of the E'upithecia trom Paisley, with typical examples of EF. virgaureata, 
Dbl., and E. castigata, Hb., and remarked that he had been in communi- 
cation with a correspondent at Paisley who informed him that viryaureata 
did not occur in that district, and the food-plant was exceedingly rare; he 
had had the pupe sent him, and it did not accord with Harpur Crewe’s 
description of the pup of virgaureata; and on carefully comparing the 
black specimens with the E'upithecia in his collection, Mr. Tugwell said he 
was quite sure that it was not, as he first supposed, a black form of £. 
satyrata, nor, as Mr. ‘Tutt suggested, of EH. virgawreata, but was undoubt- 
edly referable to EL. castigata. Mr. Tutt said he was still of opinion that 
the species was virgaureata, which he had on many occasions received from 
Paisley ; he exhibited typical, intermediate, and black forms of virgaureata 
from Paisley ; also EL. albipunctata, Haw., and var. angelicata, Bar. Mr. 
C. G. Barrett said that, on first seeing these black specimens, he thought 
they were trisignaria, H.-S., but he was inclined to think that Mr. Tugwell 
was right in referring them to castigata. Mr. Barrett added that at 
Cannock Chase he had taken specimens of castigata quite as black as those 
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