May -6, iH8?i. 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to tlie 

 respective donors. 



The President made some appropriate remarks upon the great loss 

 Science had sustained by the death of Mr. Charles Darwin; and especially 

 referred to his early interest in Entomology by becoming an Original 

 Member of this Society, founded in May 1833, while he was travelling in 

 South America. 



Election of Meinhers. 



Dr. Evald Bergroth (11, Robertsgatan, Helsingfors, Finland] and 

 Mr. W.J. Williams (Zoological Society, Hanover Square, W.) were balloted 

 for and elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, <&g. 



The Secretary read a communication from the Secretary of the Essex 

 Field Club, requesting that Members would join in a memorial to the 

 Conservators of Epping Forest and others, requiring that the Forest should 

 be preserved in its natural condition, in accordance with the Act of 

 Parliament. 



Messrs. M'Lachlan, Meldola, Cole, Fitch, and others expressed the 

 wish of all naturalists that Epping Forest should be retained in its present 

 wild state rather than be converted into a park. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a dark variety of Fidonia piniaria, L., taken 

 at Woking in 1880 by Mr. Mugford ; it was a female, resembhng, but even 

 darker than, a Scotch specimen. Also a curious pale variety of Anchocelis 

 pistacina, Fabr., captured at Cheshunt last autumn. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a series of ('ryptus migrator, Fabr. These 

 were bred from a cocoon of Trichiosoma betuleti, Klug; four specimens 

 emerged on April 6th, and no others until upon the cocoon being cut open 

 on April 20th thirteen specimens flew out; of the seventeen specimens 

 bred only two were females. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby read the following : — 



Notes on a Hybrid between Anthersea Pernyi, Guer., and A. Roylei, Moore. 



"M. Wailly, the well-known rearer of silkworm moths, has succeeded 

 in obtaining hybrids between Anther<Ea Pernyi and A. Roylei, and has 

 requested me to describe one of the moths. A. Pernyi is the well-known 

 oak-feeding silkworm of North China, and A. Roylei is a North Indian 

 species, also an oak-feeder. Hence they are not species occurring in the 



