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March 15th, 1899. 

 Mr. G, H. Vereall, President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. William Martin Geldart, M.A., of 15, Park-road, 

 Norbiton; and Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, of 45, The Village, 

 Old Charlton, Kent, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



ExJiihitions, etc. 



Mr. J. J. Walkee exhibited several specimens of Longi- 

 tarsus rutilics, 111., a rare British species of Halticidse, taken 

 by him on March 11th at Halstow in Kent. 



Mr. TuTT exhibited a series of Ejntnda lutulenta, and read 

 the following notes thereon : — 



" In the British Noctuae and their Varieties, iii, p. 53 — 59, 

 I gave a critical review of Epunda htttdenta as a British 

 ppecies, and described the known forms of the species. At 

 that time, our best-known forms were those received from 

 Ireland and Scotland, and comprised among others — ab. 

 liineburgensis, Frr., ab. trijyuncta, Frr., ab. sedi, Gn. and ab. 

 albidilinea, n. ab. The typical form from the sovithern counties 

 of England was much less satisfactorily known, and its range 

 of variation scarcely surmised. Last autumn, the Rev. C. E. 

 N. Burrows captured near Mucking in Essex, a very fine 

 series of this insect agreeing in the main with Borkhausen's 

 typical form, but varying inter se, in such a manner as to give 

 almost parallel forms to the well-known Scotch and Irish 

 insects, yet having the well-known blackish-fuscous ground 

 colour with a sprinkling of grey scales, instead of the intense 

 black ground colour peculiar to the named forms fi-om the 

 extreme west and north of our islands. It will be observed 

 that in the Mucking examples the tendency is distinctly 

 towards the type form 'dull brown-black, slightly glossy, 

 tinted with red-brown,' with three indistinct, somewhat darker 

 bordered, transverse lines. A second set are practically 

 unicolorous blackish-f uscous = ab. unicolor, with no very distinct 

 tranverse lines, the central band being, however, rather 

 darker in some specimens. A third form approaches ab. sedi, 



PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND. III., 1899. B 



