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Papers. 
Papers were communicated by the Presment on ‘“‘ New or 
little-known Species of African Butterflies,’ and by Mr. E. 
Meyrick on ‘New Lepidoptera from Australia and New 
Zealand.” 
November 17th, 1897. 
Mr. R. McLacuuan, F.R.S., Vice-President and Treasurer, 
m the Chair. 
The Chairman referred with regret to the death, while 
serving on the Indian Frontier Expedition, of Capt. EK. Y. 
Watson, Fellow of the Society, and well known for his 
writings on Oriental Rhopalocera. 
Election of Fellows. 
Miss E. F. Cuawner of Forest Bank, Lyndhurst; Mr. F. 
N. Brown, M.R.C.8., of the Elms, Chobham, and Natal; 
Mr. Ausert Harrison, F.C.S., of 72, Windsor Road, Forest 
Gate; Mr. Atserrt Norris of Church Lane, Napier, New 
Zealand; Mr. Srersen Pecuer of Retford, Notts.; Mr. 
Epwarp G. J. Sparxe, B.A., of 1, Christchurch Villas, 
Tooting Bec Road, S.W.; and Mr. Witmor Tunstatu of 
Brook House, Meltham, near Huddersfield, were elected 
Fellows of the Society, 
Exhibitions. 
Mr, Setwyn Imace exhibited male examples of Fieris 
brassicae, with a black spot on the disc of the forewings. 
They were bred from larvee found feeding on Tropwolum at 
Lee, N. Devon, in the autumn of 1896, and six out of ten 
males showed this variation. 
He also showed a dark variety of Vanessa urtica, taken at 
Copthorne in Sussex, and characterized as follows: 
Forewings: the yellow costal blotches, and the yellow 
subdorsal blotch, absent; the second and third black costal 
blotches united; the white costal blotch become a mere tinge 
of bluish-grey shading into ochreous, and this into the black 
of the terminal fascia, which is somewhat broader, and far 
less sharply defined, than ordinarily, and without any blue 
