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Eui'opean species seven were taken in three weeks. Tlie spring 

 and summer broods of Plerls krueperi this year were flying 

 together — an unusual occurrence, possibly due to the rainy 

 spring. Among other notable species albinos of Colias hel- 

 dreichl (female) were taken, G. rhamni, var. farinosa, and 

 Lycsena ottoiiianus, while Mr. Elwes further expressed his 

 opinion that a Lycajna taken as a var. of L. seiiuargus was a 

 distinct species. 



Miss FouNTAiNE mentioned in connection with these exhibits 

 that Colias heldreichi swarmed on ]Mount Chelmos from 4000 to 

 7000 feet ; and Mr. Ehves remarked that Miss Fountaine was 

 the first British collector known to have captured this insect. 



Mr. H. H. May exhibited a variety of Strenia clathrata 

 tiiken on the South Downs, in which the ground-colour of the 

 wings was of a uniform dark chocolate brown, not unlike 

 Syriclithus alveolus on the wing. 



Mr. F. Enock exliibited a male bee Stelis aterrima, one of 

 the bees parasitic in the nests of Osmia /ulviventris, usually 

 considered a i-are insect. The specimen w^as taken on August 

 14, 1900, in a garden at Hollowa3^ Mr. Enock announced, 

 that he had also taken 0. fulvlventris, its host, in the same 

 metropolitan locality. 



Papers. 



Papers were communicated entitled " Descriptions of new 

 species and a new genus of South American Eumolpidte with 

 remarks on some of the genera," by Mr. M. Jacoby, and "Lepi- 

 doptera Heterocera from Northern China, Japan, and Corea" 

 (Part IV), by Mr. J. H. Leech, B.A., F.Z.S., etc. 



October 17th, 1900. 

 Mr. G. II, Yekrall, President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellow. 

 Mr. J. DiGBY Firth, of The Grammar School, Chorlton-cum- 

 Hardy, near Manchester, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited a series of Pararge maera, a light 

 form resembling P. iney<jera from the Basses Alpes and the 

 Cevennes ; a daik form approaching P. hiera from Cortina ; 



