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Obituary, 



The decease was announced of Lieut.-Colonel Charles T. 

 Bingham, F.Z.S., a Fellow of the Society, and the Secretary 

 was asked to convey to Mrs. Bingham a message of sympathy 

 from the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Rare Beetle at Purley. — Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited 

 examples of the rare Lainellicorn beetle Gnorimus variabilis, 

 L., found by him in thick frass vmder the bark of old oaks, 

 near Purley Oaks, Surrey, in the larval state, in May last, and 

 again as imagines in the same locality in the following month. 

 He described the species as one becoming extinct in the United 

 Kingdom, when the President said it had been reported from 

 Windsor Forest in 1892. 



Abnormal Pytho depressus. — Mr. G. C. Champion showed 

 a specimen of Pytho depressus, L., with two tarsi to the right 

 hind-leg. It was bred from a larva or pupa found under pine- 

 bark at Binn, Switzerland, and the abnormal growth may 

 have been due to the attacks of other larvae kept in the same 

 box. 



Forms op Thais. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a case 

 containing several forms of Thais rumina, the var. medesicaste, 

 and the ab. cantetieri, Hey., from South Spain, and from 

 France. 



"Wing suffusion of Libellula. — Mr. W. J. Lucas brought 

 for exhibition a set of eight examples of Libellula quadri- 

 maculata from Scotland, and the South of England, to illus- 

 trate the range from the type form to the var. pnemcbilcc of 

 Newman. The variation takes two lines, one the development 

 of the blackish suffusion beneath the nodes and pterstigma ; 

 secondly, a saffron suffusion parallel to the costa. 



Mr. H. M. Edelsten also showed a varied series of the same 

 dragonflies from the Noi'folk Broads. 



Aberrant Dryas paphia. — Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited 

 paintings of two forms of Dryas paphia bred by him this 

 season from ova of parents taken at Brockenhurst, generally 

 resembling the aberration of this butterfly shown by Dr. 

 Herbert Charles at the last meeting. 



