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December 6th, 1899. 

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



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. Francis Gayner, of 20, Queen Squai-e, W.C, and Mr, 

 F. B. Jennings, of 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, X., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions, etc. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a specimen of Colias marnoana, 

 Rogenh., taken, with other examples, by Lieut. Constable, R.N., 

 at Massowah, on the Red Sea. He considered this form to be 

 only a dwarfed race of C. hyale, Linn,; and for comparison 

 with it, he showed specimens of the var. nilgherriensis, Feld., 

 from Central India, and of the var. shnoda, De L'Orza, from 

 Japan. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a serie.s of specimens, selected from 

 various English collections, together with a few foreign 

 examples, in order to illustrate the English forms found 

 within the genus Fumea. He also showed specimens of sepixmi, 

 hetulina and salicolella, and remarked that the first of these 

 species was very properly placed by Mr. Tutt in a new genus 

 (Bacotia), since it is a transitional form, having as great 

 affinities with Solenohia as with Futtiea ; while the other two 

 species, though perhaps not distantly allied to Fumea, did not 

 truly belong to that genus, and were well placed by Tutt in a 

 new genus {Proutia). The specimens of sejnum were, he said, 

 some of those taken by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher in the New 

 Forest ; those of bettilina were bred from larvje taken by Mr. 

 Whittle and by Mi-. Prout in Essex ; and those of salicolella 

 were bred by Mr. Prout from Essex larvic, with the exception 

 of one of unknown origin, found in Dr. Mason's collection 

 along with his hetulina, which included two of Mr. IMitford's 

 specimens. 



Dr. Chapman then proceeded to refer to the genus Funwaj 

 and the forms included in it, as follows : — 



"The genus Fumea contains the species that have the 

 antennal pectinations scaled. 



