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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



FEBRUARY 13th, 1913. 

 The President, Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., in the chair. 



Mr. Chas. R. Wixey, of Palmer's Greeo, N., was elected a 

 member. 



It was announced that the Council had chosen Mr. E. Step to fill 

 the office of Hon. Editor, and Messrs. J. Platt-Barrett and D. N. 

 Riley to be the additional members of the Council, in accordance 

 with the alterations made in the Bye-Laws at the Special Meeting, 

 held on January 23rd (Proceedings, 1912-13, page 138). 



Mr. A. W. Buckstone exhibited the following aberrations of 

 Charaas (jraminis : 1. A male, inclining to grey on both fore- and 

 hindwings, the usual markings being scarcely discernible. 2. A 

 pale dwarfed male. 3. A male with left wing dwarfed. 4. A dark 

 grey female inclining to black. 5. A grey female inclining to pink- 

 All were taken in Richmond Park, Surrey. He also showed a 

 female Ai/riades thetis {bellari/us), with right hindwing dwarfed, the 

 usual spots on the underside being absent. It was taken at Dorking 

 in September, 1912. 



Syntoinids front. Central America. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a 

 drawer containing a number of moths, principally belonging to the 

 Syntomida. He explained that his friend and correspondent, Dr. 

 F. L. Davis, F.E.S., of Belize, British Honduras, made an excursion 

 in June, 1912, to a place called Castile, on the Old River, for the 

 purpose of investigating the entomology of that part of the interior 

 of the Colony. So far as the butterflies were concerned, the visit 

 did not prove a particularly successful one, but the abundance of 

 syntomid moths which he found on the blossoms of the shrubs 

 on the borders of the forest made amends for the lack of larger 

 lepidoptera. It is well known that among these insects some 

 remarkable instances of mimicry are to be found, and Mr. Gibbs 

 exhibited a number of species which resembled very closely the 



