PROCEEDINGS 



HOLMESDALE NATUEAL HISTOEY CLUE. 



EVENING MEETINGS. 



11th October, 1872. — Mr. Gilbert exhibited a variety of the Chalk- 

 bill Blue butterfly {Lycmia Corydon), wanting ocelli on the hind 

 wings; also a specimen of Tlipparchia Seinele, varying in tlic same 

 way by omission of tlio customary ocelli. 



Mr. Sydney Webb showed a specimen of (JoUuh Kdum, var. Ilelice, 

 captured at llcigate Hill ; Lycama Adonis, var. Ilijacinlhns ; a black 

 Limenitis Sylilla, from the New Forest; also a box containing about 

 eighty specimens of Catoidria modeatana, to show the exceeding 

 variation of the species. 



The President drew the attention of the Meeting to what ho 

 believed to be a new species of the woodlousc family, which had been 

 taken by the Rev. T. II. Stebbiiig during tlie excursion of the Club 

 to Copthorne. In general appearance and si/o it much resembled 

 the common I'hiloHcia muscorum, but differed in the shape of the 

 anal appendages, and in the antfennie having fifteen joints instead of 

 eight. Drawings showing the parts alluded to, much magnified, 

 were handed round for examination. :• He also exhibited specimens 

 of Philoscia mmcorum, from this neighbourhood, and I'lalyarlhrua 

 lloffmanseyyi (another and very small member of the same family 

 only found in the nests of the fuscous ant), taken in Dorsetshire. 



♦ This woodlouse was afterwards recognized a» a specioB of Zia; it iti 

 well known on the Continent, but now for the iirni time found in this 

 country. 



