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food by some Australian natives in New South Wales. He pointed 

 out that it was not a Euplcea, as supposed by Kirby in his ' Bridge- 

 water Treatise,' but a Euxna ; and not a butterfly, as further stated by 

 Westwood. — Mr. Arthur M. Lea communicated " Notes on Australian 

 and Tasmanian Cryptocephalides, with descriptions of New Species." — 

 Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow communicated " A Eevision of the subfamily Pelid- 

 notinffi of the Coleopterous family Rutelidse, with descriptions of New 

 Genera and Species," by the late Frederick Bates. — -Colonel Charles 

 Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., read a paper " On some New Species of 

 Eastern Australian and African Moths in the British Museum." — Mr. 

 George Charles Champion, P.Z.S., read a paper on " An Entomo- 

 logical Excursion to Moncayo, Spain, with some remarks on the 

 Habits of Xyleborus dispar, Fabr., by Dr. Thomas Algernon Chapman, 

 M.D." — Mr. Kenneth J. Morton communicated " Further Notes on 

 Hydroptilidfe belonging to the European Fauna, with descriptions of 

 New Species," and Mr. W. C. R. Shelford, M.A., communicated "A 

 Note on FAijmnias horneensis, Wallace." — A discussion on " What is a 

 Species ? " was opened by the Rev. F. D. Morice, in which Mr. H. 

 J. Elwes, Dr. F. A. Dixey, Mr. A. J. Chitty, Mr. W. E. Sharp, the 

 President, and other Fellows joined. — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 February Uth, 1904.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Montgomery exhibited a curious malformation of the wings which 

 had occurred in a brood of Ocneria dispar. A pair of the malformed 

 specimens were selected, and from them was bred a brood, nearly tbe 

 whole of which had the same peculiarity, viz. a large semicircular 

 portion of tbe apical part of the hind wings being undeveloped. — Mr. 

 South, albino and xantbic aberrations of Epinephele tithonus, taken by 

 Mr. G. M. Russell, on tbe chalk downs in South Hampshire, in 1898, 

 1899, and 1900. — Mr. Kaye, photographs of tbe Potara River, British 

 Guiana, where he had spent some months in entomological collecting. 

 Mr. R. Adkin, series of Leucoma (Liparis) salicis reared from pups col- 

 lected at Heme Bay last year, and made remarks on the scarcity and 

 abundance of the species for some years past. — Mr. Newberry, several 

 conspicuous species of Indian Coleoptera, and a very large species of 

 water-bug. — Mr. West (Greenwich), an example of tbe rare Coleo- 

 pteron, Gijnandrophthalma affinis, from Wychwood, Oxford, where it 

 was discovered in 1899. — Mr. H. Moore, specimens of Coleoptera and 

 Orthoptera, from Natal. — Dr. Chapman, brilliant but dwarf speci- 

 mens of Cyaniris argiolus, and bred examples of Arctia fasciata, one of 

 the most gorgeous of Continental " tigers," from Moncayo. Spain, 

 together with a bred series of Chrysophanus amphidamus. — Mr. Sich 

 read a paper, " Notes on tbe genus Coleoplwra,'" dealing chiefly with 

 the life-history of C. fnscedineUa, with description of its egg, and with 

 the method of constructing and enlarging its case. 



February 25th. — The President in the chair.— Mr. Edwards ex- 

 hibited a striking variety of Hypena rostralis, having a broad light- 

 brown costa, and other unusual markings of the same colour. — Mr. 

 Colthrup (1), a very light aberration of Abraxas grossnlariata, having 

 only a few black dots and marks on the disc and margins, with a 

 narrow yellow band and base ; (2), a blotched form of Argynnis 



