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December 5, 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 a Fellow. 
Mr. B. A. Bower, of Eltham, Kent, was elected a Fellow 
of the Society. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, for the Rev. Dr. Walker, a 
variety of the female of Ornithoptera Brookiana; he also 
exhibited, for Major Partridge, an undetermined species of the 
genus Hadena, captured last summer in the Isle of Portland. 
Mr. R. South exhibited a series of specimens of Tortria 
piceana, L., from a pine-wood in Surrey; also—for com- 
parison—melanic forms of Tortrix podana, S. 
Prof. Meldola exhibited, for Dr. Laver, a melanic specimen 
of Catocala nupta, taken last September at Colchester. 
Mr. EK. B. Poulton exhibited preserved larve of Sphina 
convolvuli, showing the extreme dark and light forms of the 
species. The specimens had been prepared by Lord Walsing- 
ham and presented to the British Museum. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan called attention to a plate, representing 
species of the genus Agrotis, executed by photography, 
illustrating a memoir by Dr. Max Standfuss, in the Corres- 
pondenz-Blatt, Verein ‘ Iris,’ in Dresden, 1888. He considered 
it was the best example of photography as adapted for ento- 
mological purposes he had ever seen, especially as regarded 
its stereoscopic effect. 
The Rev. Canon Fowler exhibited a specimen of Mycterus 
curculionoides, L., sent to him by Mr. Olliff, and taken by 
Mr. Gunning near Oxford about 1882. 
Mr. W. E. Nicholson exhibited several melanie varieties of 
Argynnis niobe and A. pales, collected by himself last summer 
in the Engadine. 
Mr. J. H. Leech exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera formed 
last year by Mr. Pratt at Kiukiang, Central China. It in- 
