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of insects, in which Mr. W. E. Sharp, the President, and other 

 Fellows took part. Mr. Enock said that where the food supply hap- 

 pened to be insufficient, neuropterous nymphs would continue two 

 years in that stage, and Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse mentioned a case 

 reported to him of the larvse of Vaiieasa urtica which, having exhausted 

 their summer pabulum, retired to hybernate until the following year. 

 Mr. A. J. Chitty said he had observed that coleopterous larvae under 

 similar circumstances would consume flies ; while Mr. H. St. J. Donis- 

 thorpe said that he had bred successfully a phytophagous species of the 

 same order by feeding them on paper. — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Feb. 26f/t.— Mr. Step, F.L.S., President, in thechair.— Mr. F. G. Cannon, 

 of Hampstead, was elected a member. — A special donation to the 

 library was announced, consisting of a complete set of the papers and 

 articles written by Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., on protective resem- 

 blance in insects, from the author. — Mr. Turner exhibited a number 

 of species of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Diptera taken 

 during a week spent at Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, in company 

 with Mr. Step. Most of the species were common, but interesting as 

 being records from a hitherto unworked district. Sonmia punctatissima, 

 a coleopteron found in some numbers in a C^ossus-infected poplar tree, 

 was worth noting as a new record for Ireland. — Mr. G. W. Browne, a 

 number of Lepidoptera from Deal, taken in August, 1902, and includ- 

 ing long and varied series of Atjrotis tritici and A. valligera, together 

 with Syrichthus malvcB v. taras from Hailsham, Apamea ophiogramma 

 from Lee, Dicycla oo from Lee, and lodis veniaria from Lee. — Mr. 

 Goulton exhibited some very fine photographic slides of the ova and 

 larvae of several species of Lepidoptera. 



March 12th. — Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Hickman, of Kennington Road, and Mr. Furnival, of Harlesden, were 

 elected members. — Dr. Chapman exhibited living examples of the 

 three European species of the genus Thais: viz. T. rumina, T. poly- 

 xena, and T. ceriayi. He also showed a bird parasite, Docophorus com- 

 viuim ?, taken from a blackbird, and called attention to the curious 

 jointed appendage in front of the antenna, which form a guard to the 

 latter organ, and is said to occur in no other group of insects. — Mr. 

 R. Adkin, series of Acidalia aversata, consisting of broods from a non- 

 banded female and from a banded female. In botli cases, banded and 

 non-banded, offspring were produced. He also read notes as to the 

 colour-variation of the two series. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, specimens of 

 Larentia didymata, bred off broom from Co. Kerry. They had a very 

 reduced central black band, and all the markings were very clearly 

 contrasted with the very pale ground colour. — Professor E. B. Poulton, 

 F.R.S., gave an address on " Recent Researches in Protective Resem- 

 blance, Warning Colours, and Mimicry in Insects," and illustrated his 

 remarks with a very large number of lantern-slides. 



March 2Qth. — The President in the chair. Mr. E. Warne, St. 

 John's Hill, Clapham, was elected a member — Mr. Jennings exhibited 

 a series of the very local Cryptocephaliis bipunctatus (var. lineola, F.) 

 taken at Charing, Kent, on hazel bushes. — Mr. Colthrup, hybernating 

 larval nests of Portheda chrysorrhoea from Newhaven, where they could 



