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aud Professor Meldola continued the discussion. — H. Goss & W. W. 

 Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 



May 1st. — Professor Eapliael Meldola, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. Mr. Oswald H. Latter, M.A., of the Charterhouse, Godalming, 

 was elected a Fellow ; and Dr. C. G. Thomson, of the University, 

 Lund, Sweden, was elected an Honorary Fellow, to fill the vacancy 

 caused hy the death of Pastor Wallengren. Mr. Horace St. J. 

 Donisthorpe exhibited a variety of Ehar/ium Mfasciatum, a longicorn 

 beetle, taken in the New Forest, in which the elytra were of a light 

 testaceous colour. Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a living larva of a longi- 

 corn beetle found in a boot-tree which had been in constant use by the 

 owner for fourteen years, the last seven of which were spent in India. 

 The specimen was brought to the British Museum on May 6th, 1890, 

 and was put into a block of beech Avood in which it had lived ever 

 since ; it did not appear to have altered in any way during these five 

 years. It had burrowed about eight inches, and probably made its 

 exit accidentally. Mr. Blandford referred to a similar case which had 

 come under his notice. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a long series of 

 the dark and strongly-marked varieties of Ai/rotis cursoria and A. 

 tritici, taken on the sandhills of the north-east coast of Scotland by 

 Mr. Arthur Home, of Aberdeen. Mr. Dale exhibited a specimen of a 

 Sesia — supposed to be a new species — from the New Forest. Mr. 0. E. 

 Janson exhibited a remaikable species of CurcuUonidm from the island 

 of Gilolo, having exceedingly long and slender antenufe and legs ; 

 it was apparently an undescribed species of the genus Talanthia, 

 Pascoe. Mr. Nelson Richardson called attention to a paper by himself, 

 in the * Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field Club,' on the subject of Dorset Lepidoptera in 1892 and 1893. 

 Mr. W. L. Distant communicated a paper " On a probable explanation 

 of an unverified observation relative to the family Fulgoridae." In 

 this paper the author cited the expressed opinions of certain natural- 

 ists as to the luminous properties of some species of this family. In 

 the discussion which ensued Mr. Blandford said he thought further 

 evidence was required on the subject of the alleged luminosity in the 

 Fulgoridae before the statements contained in Mr. Distant's paper 

 could be accepted. Mr. J. J. Walker, E.N., contributed a paper 

 entitled "A Preliminary List of the Butterflies of Hong-Kong, based 

 on Observations and Captures made during the winter and spring 

 months of 1892 and 1893." Professor Meldola commented on the in- 

 teresting character of the paper from an entomological point of view, 

 and the value of the observations therein on the geology, botany, and 

 climate of Hong-Kong. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



South London Entomological and Natubal HistorV Society. — 

 March 28th, 1895.— T. W. Hall, F.E.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Ashby, Maida Vale, N.W., and Mr. H, Woods, Ashford, Kent, were 

 elected members. Among the donations to the Society was a hand- 

 some lantern and screen, presented by Mr. Stanley Edwards. Mr. 

 Fenn exhibited long series of Selenia illunaria, Hb., including a third 

 brood. Mr. J. T. Carrington gave an interesting address entitled 

 " Some Collecting Grounds and the Trees there," illustrating his 

 i*emarks by a large number of lantern slides, admirably executed and 

 kindly lent by Mr. Fred. H. Evans. 



