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March 7, 1888. 
Dr. Davin Suarp, F.L.S., F.Z.8., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 
to the respective donors. 
Election of Fellows. 
Mr. Frederic Pennington, jun., of Broome Hall, Holm- 
wood, Surrey; Mr. W. Crush, of Ulundi Road, Westcombe 
Park, Blackheath, S.E.; and Mr. James Plumer Cregoe, of 
26, Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S§.A., 
were elected Fellows. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. J. H. Leech exhibited, and made remarks on, a num- 
ber of butterflies forming part of the collection made for him 
during last summer by Mr. Pratt at Kiukiang, Central China. 
The specimens included Papilio macilentus, hitherto only 
recorded from Japan; a series of varieties of Papilio sarpedon, 
selected from over a hundred specimens, in most of which 
the blue spots of the hind wings were entirely absent; also a 
pale green variety of this species which Mr. Leech believed 
to be a new or very rare form; a supposed new species of 
Papilio with very broad tails, traversed by two nerves 
instead of one; a series of Sericinus telamon, selected from 
over 800 specimens, no two of which were alike; varieties 
of Acrea vesta; examples of Charaxes narceus and the 
variety mandarinus, which latter Mr. Leech said was the 
common form at Kiukiang; Ypthima sakra, a species new 
to China; Paleonympha opalina, Butl.; some new or un- 
known species of Lethe, Neptis, and <dApatura; and a 
series of Argynnis paphia with the variety valezina of the 
female. Mr. Leech stated that all the females of A. paphia 
taken at Kiukiang belonged to the variety valezina, the 
typical form of the female being unknown there. He also 
remarked that in studying Chinese Lepidoptera it was of 
great importance to have a long series of every species, as in 
many cases the varieties intermediate between the typical 
form of a species and its local forms are extremely rare, and 
