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£2 5s. and £3 respectively ; a fine " hermaphrodite " Celastrina 

 argiolus, £14 ; and a Nemeobius lucina with " cream ground colour," 

 £4 10s. Among the extinct and migrant species the only Chryso- 

 2)hamis dispcvr included in the collection, a fairly good female, made 

 £10 10s. ; two Phryxus Uvornica, £3 10s. and £2 15s. respectively ; 

 and Daphnis nerii, £12. Epicnaptera ilicifolia, two pairs hred from 

 a female taken at Cannock Chase hy Mr. Oliver in May, 1913, sold for 

 £6 10s. and £6 per pair, and a lot of three including the original 

 female for £7, while a couple of Hyloicus pinastri made £3 apiece. 

 Cahinets also were in demand, a forty-two drawer fetching £43 Is., 

 and a forty-drawer " Brady," £84. — R. A. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 -Society. — November 28th, 1918 {continued from p. 48). — Mr. H. 

 Moore, Anosia archippjis, racial forms from areas ranging from 

 Canada to the Argentine. — Rev. J. S. Tarbat, for Mr. Burras : 

 (1) Dryas paphia, much coalesced and suffused examples ; (2) A. 

 cydip)pe (pale); (3) Phragmatobia fuliginosa (yellow); (4) Lithusia 

 dep>lana (very dark) ; (5) Galymnia trapezina (extremes of aberration). 

 — Rev. A. T. Stiff: (1) Amorpha po^mli, buff and pink form; (2) 

 Saturnia pavonia, with pink marginal band on hind wings ; (3) 

 Arctia villica, 9, with confluent spots and hind wings almost devoid 

 of markings ; (4) Arctia caja, ($ salmon-pink, (^ yellow, (^ pink- 

 yellow and confluent spots, several with dark fore wings ; (5) C. 

 lyamphilus, with extra ocelli below, etc. — Mr. Ashdown, long series of 

 aberrations of Adalia bip)unctata (Col.). — Dr. T. A. Chapman, Orgyia 

 vetiista, California, a long, variable, bred series with 0. antiqua, 

 0. spilendida and 0. auro-limbata for comparison. — Mr. G. Fryer, 

 Scodiona fagaria (belgiaria), a melanic example, and Polyommatus 

 icarus, a striated form. — Capt. B. S. Curwen, a number of species 

 of British Fossorial Hymenoptera, including the rare Methoca ich- 

 ncumonida. — ^Mr. W. West, for the Society, the Collection of Canadian 

 Lepidoptera. — Mr. L. Tatchell: (1) Dryas paphia, with heavy mark- 

 ings ; (2) E. p)olychloros, with light under-side; (3) A. nrticce ab. 

 polaris, bred; (4) Agriopis aprilina, typical, melanic, and oh.virgata ; 

 (5) the exotic Pierid Hebemoia glaucippc, India, with races australis, 

 S. India, sumatranus, cclebensis and javanensis. — Mr. A. W. Buck- 

 stone, for Mr. Pugsley, Plutella cruciferarum, bred, from wild seakale. 

 — Mr. A. Buttertield, Tcracolns euanthe, Madagascar, three forms of 

 the $ , the ^ and a rare aberration of the (^, with apical blotch 

 clear lemon-yellow. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, a very fine graduated series of 

 Ueliconius mclpomcne to show the range of the lines of variation, 

 local, aberrational and developmental, illustrated by the named forms. 



December IWi, 1918. — The President in the Chair. — Mr. x\shdowa 

 exhibited Neuroptera from the late Mr. C. A. Briggs' collection, in- 

 cluding Perla maxima, P. ccphalotes, Chloropcrla grammatica, Nemoura 

 variegata, Isoptcryx tripunctata, etc., and presented them to the 



