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belonged to a form of Lycana ari/us (the L. (Ff/on of the British list). 

 They were talven about one and a half miles east or south-east of 

 Bejar on July 9th and following days. He said that he proposed to 

 iiame this form var. hcjarensis. — Mr. R. South exhibited four specimens 

 of a large form of Cupido minima (Lycmia vdnima) from Cumberland, 

 sent to the Natural History Museum by Mr. Mousley, of Buxton. He 

 also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. H. Fowler, of Riugwood, a series 

 of Lithosia deplana, Esp., from the New Forest, showing interesting 

 variations in both sexes, but expecially in the females. It was stated 

 that Mr. Eustace Bankes had recently recorded somewhat similar 

 aberrations of the species from the Isle of Purbeck. — Mr. Hamilton 

 Druce exhibited a specimen of Limenitis impidi, L., caught whilst 

 being chased by a small bird in July, 1901, near Riga, Russia ; also a 

 specimen of Sesam.ia nonagrioides, Lefeb., bred from a larva found 

 feeding in the interior of a banana. — Mr. J. H. Carpenter exhibited a 

 gynandromorphous specimen of Lycana icarus, having the coloration 

 of the male on the left side, and that of the female on the right side, 

 captured on Ranmore Common, Surrey, in June last ; also several 

 aberrations of this species from Ranmore Common and the Isle of 

 "Wight. He also showed specimens of Vaiiessa antiopa, bred from 

 German larvae, including a remarkable aberration, in which the usual 

 blue spots on the upper wings were entirely absent. — Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthorpe exhibited a foreign specimen of Quedius suturalis, lent 

 him by Mr. Keys, of Plymouth, and a British specimen taken by 

 himself at Gravesend in 1891 ; also, for comparison, a specimen of 

 Quedius obliteratns taken at Plymouth. He said that most of the 

 specimens of so-called Quedms suturalis in British collections were 

 really Q. obliteratus. — Mr. Pickett exhibited a remarkable series of 

 Amjerona prunaria, the result of four years' interbreeding between 

 dark males from Raindean Wood, near Folkestone, and light-coloured 

 females from Eppiug Forest ; also uuicolorous light orange-yellow 

 males, light yellow females, dark orange males sprinkled with black, 

 and other unusual aberrations. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 exhibited a series of lantern slides prepared from negatives taken by 

 his assistant, Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Hope Department, and Mr. 

 Alfred Robinson, of the Oxford University Museum. The slides repre- 

 sented a series of the larv» and imagines of British moths photographed 

 under natural conditions. Mr. Hamm's photographs of moths clearly 

 showed the attitude of the insect in relation to the background which 

 it had selected. Some of the species were shown upon their normal 

 background of the bark of various kinds of trees, others upon lichen- 

 covered stone walls. Mr. Robinson's photographs similarly represented 

 the larvae of species of British moths in their natural attitudes upon 

 the food-plants. Prof. Poulton also showed a representation of the 

 pupa of Limenitis popmli, prepared from Portschinski's figure and de- 

 scription, and explained the highly ingenious hypothesis by which the 

 appearances are accounted for by the Russian naturalist. — Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse communicated a paper by Mr. L. R. Crawshay, entitled 

 " On the Life-history of Drilus Jiavescens, Rossi." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural Histoey Society. — 

 October 23r(/, 1902.— Mr. F. Noad Clark, President, in the chair.— 

 Mr. Inglis, of Clapham, and Mr. Scollick, F.E.S., of Wimbledon, were 



