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than English ones, those with red markings on a white ground 

 only very slightly fluorescent, and those coloured like females aye 

 non-fluorescent. It is so light when the males fly in the Shetlands 

 that the white coloration and fluorescence are not of much use. 

 In the case of the Geometers both sexes are equally fluorescent. 

 All are light-coloured and therefore conspicuous on the wing at 

 dusk, and their fluorescence must add to their visibility. — The 

 Secretary read a letter from the Essex Field Club protesting against 

 a Parliamentary Bill for the permanent alienation of parts of 

 Wanstead Flats and Epping Forest for allotments, and on his 

 motion, seconded by Lord Rothschild, it was unanimously resolved 

 to send a letter in similar terms to the Prime Minister, and others 

 who might be interested in supporting the protest. 



Wednesday, May 5th, 1920. — -At the Special Meeting Comm. 

 J. J. Walker, M.A., R.N., F.L.S., President, in the Chair.— Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker proposed that the suggested alterations in the Bye- 

 laws be received. This was seconded bv Lord Rothschild and carried. 

 The suggested alterations were then put separately before the meeting 

 from the Chair. At the Ordinary Meeting which followed, M. F. 

 le Cerf, Curator of the Lepidoptera in the Paris Museum, 13, rue Guy 

 de la Brosse, Paris, Miss Alice Ellen Prout, Lane End, Hambledon, 

 Surrey, and Messrs. W. H. Tams, 8, Whitla Road, Manor Park, 

 E. 12, and Alfred E. Tonge, Ashville, Tratford Road, Alderley Edge, 

 Cheshire, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Lord Rotlischild, 

 F.R.S., exhibited a long series of Zygitnas of the transalpina group 

 together with a series of Z. ej^hialtes showing parallel variation, and 

 Mr. Bethune-Baker in illustration exhibited with the epidiascope a 

 number of slides showing the differences in the genital armature of 

 the various species. — Mr. C. B. Williams demonstrated a method of 

 collecting and storing insects, etc., fixed to leaves without pressure. 

 A small, round, shallow pill-box, with or without a glass lid, is taken, 

 and the inner cardboard ring separated from the rest of the box. For 

 collecting, the lid of the box with this inner ring in it are placed over 

 the specimen on the leaf and the rest of the box beneath. On pressing 

 the two halves of the box together the leaf with the specimen on it 

 is pressed to the bottom of the box, where it is protected and kept into 

 position by the cardboard ring, which is pushed back into its original 

 position. — Mr. Deuquet, who was present as a visitor, exhibited a 

 number of Australian insects of various orders, many of which were 

 still undescribed and unnamed. — G. C. Wheeler, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



William West (of Greenwich) passed peacefully to his rest 

 on July 30th last at the residence of his son, 343, Green Lanes, 

 Harringay, N. 4, in his eighty-fifth year. Born at Rotherhithe in 

 1836, he early removed to Greenwich, where he was apprenticed to 

 John Penn & Son, then one of the, if not the leading engineering 

 firm in the Soutb of England, witli whom he served for nearly fifty 



