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Obituary. 



The decease was announced of Mr. John Brown, a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



North American Sawfly in London. — Mr. Selwyn Image 

 exhibited an example of the North American sawfly, Sirex 

 caudatus, Oresson, bred from a larva found at Highbury in a 

 piece of wood, together with photographs of the larva and its 

 galleries by Mr. Hugh Main. 



Anthocharids from South France. — The Rev. G. Wheeler 

 brought for exhibition a series of Anthocharis tages, var. belle- 

 zina, from Aix-en-Provence, taken this year, and of A. belia 

 from the South of France for comparison ; also a series of 

 Lycaena corydon with dark undersides — the typical form in 

 the south, expressing the view that in these regions the 

 butterfly was not only double, but triple brooded ; an observ- 

 ation supported by the extreme dates of its appearance in a 

 fresh state. 



Rediscovered Micro-Lepidopteron prom the South op 

 France. — Lord Walsingham showed two set examples and 

 pupal cases of Holocacista rivillei, Stn., called by the late Mr. 

 Stainton " The lost Pleiad," because originally described in 

 1750, and not again found before 1870, — mining leaves of 

 the grape-vine. The name Holocacista, Wlsm. and Drnt., is 

 now proposed for a new genus, Mr. Stainton having placed it 

 in Antispila, Tr., from which it is found to differ materially 

 in neuration, suggesting a more probable alliance with 

 Heliozela, otherwise Tinagma, Stn. 



New Palaearctic Species op Callophrys. — Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman exhibited specimens of Callophrys avis, a new species 

 from the South of France, first taken by him at Hyeres three 

 years ago, and in the following year, and now obtained by 

 him this year from the Pyr6n6es-Orientales. It is very closely 

 allied to C. rubi, but distinguishable by its larger size, ruddier 

 colour, red hairy face without silver lines round the eyes, the 

 very different form of the androconial band, the red underside 

 to the club of the antennae, the different tone of the green of 

 the underside and the different character of the white line. 



