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December 7, 1892. 



Frederick DuCane Godman, Esq., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



Death of an ex-President. 

 The President announced the death, on the 2nd December, 

 of Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.E.S., an ex-President of the 

 Society. A vote of condolence with Mrs. Stainton was passed 

 by the meeting. 



Election of FeUoivs. 



Mr. Frank Bouskell, of 11, Lansdowiie Pioad, Stoneygate, 

 Leicester ; Mr. George C. Dennis, of Tower Street, York ; 

 Mr. Charles B. Headley, of Stoneygate Road, Leicester ; 

 Mr. William Mansbridge, of Luther Place, Horsforth, near 

 Leeds ; and the Rev. George W. Taylor, of St. Barnabas, 

 Victoria, British Columbia, Avere elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



E.rkihitions, dc. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a species of Acraa from Sierra 

 Leone, which Mr. Roland Triraen, who had examined the 

 specimen, considered to be a remarkaple variety of TelcMnia 

 cncedun, Linn. It was a very close mimic of Lininas alcipptis, 

 the usual Western African form of Limnas chryi^iiipua. The 

 upper wings of the specimen were rufous and the lower white, 

 as in the model, and the resemblance in other respects was 

 heightened by the almost total suppression of the black spots 

 in the disc of tlie upper wings, characteristic of the usual 

 markings of T. encedon. 



Mr. F. J. Hanbury exhibited a remarkable variety of 

 Jjijcana adonis, caught in Kent this year, with only one large 

 spot on the under side of each upper wing, and the spots on 

 the lower wings entirely replaced by suffused white patches. 

 He also exhibited two specimens of Noctua xantluxjrapJut of a 

 remarkably pale brownish grey colour, approaching a dirty 



