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May 6th, 1896. 



Professor Kaphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced and thanks 

 voted to the respective donors. 



Election of a Felloir. 



Mr. Percy Evans Freke, of Step Plouse, Borris, County 

 Carlow, Ireland, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhihitionx, etc. 



Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of Anutra fanielica, 

 Zimm., from Woking, Surrey, a recent addition to the 

 British list. He also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Dolby- 

 Tyler, a series oi Ehttria quadrinotata, Latr., from Guayaquil, 

 Ecuador, showing variation in the number of the raised 

 ivory-white lines on the elytra, there being sometimes an 

 additional mark exterior to the short basal line and sometimes 

 an additional one on the inner side of the second line. 

 Mr. Gahan said he did not notice anything remarkable in the 

 species except in the arrangement of the spots. 



Mr. Horace Donisthorpe exhibited a specimen of Ptero- 

 stichus gracilis with three tarsi on one leg, taken near 

 Weymouth last April. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a series of Arctia menthrastri 

 which he had just bred from Morayshire ova ; the ground- 

 colour of the specimens varied from the usual white, through 

 shades of yellow, to smoky-brown. 



Mr. Merrifield exhibited specimens of Gonepteryx rhamni 

 bred from larva found in North Italy and Germany, the 

 pupns of which had been subjected to various temperatures. 



He said the general effect of high temperatures, up to 98° F., 

 and of low ones down to SS'* F. for twenty days, both of 

 which exposures were well endured and might doubtless with 

 this species be exceeded, was not considerable : the high 

 temperatures appeared to cause an increase of yellow scales in 



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