60 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



deaths of Mr. Spence, the Baron de Selys-Longchamps, Mr. Blatch, 

 Major George Cockle, Mr. PhiUp Crowley, Lord Dormer, Mr. J. H. 

 Leech, Dr. W. H. Lowe, Professor Joseph Mik, Professor Emiie 

 Blanchard, Dr. Staudiuger, and other entomologists. He then delivered 

 ail address. — A vote of thanks to the outgoing President was proposed 

 by the Rev. Canon Fowler, seconded by Colonel JSwinhoe, and carried. 

 — H. Goss and H. Rowland-Bbown, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Novfiiiber 8th. — Tne President in the chair. Tne Annual Exhibiiiou 

 of Varieties was held on this evening, and was a most successful and 

 interesting meeting, Mr. B. Adkin, a bred Vanessa (^Eiujonia) pulyc/doros 

 with a very pale ground colour ; a Triphana Jimbria having the black 

 band on the hind wings extending along the inner margin ; and 

 examples of Catocala prumissa with paler upper wings, and hind wings 

 with narrow and straight median band. Mr. Winkley, Catocala nupta 

 var. ccBndescens, taken in August, 1892. Mr. E. Adkin, varieties of 

 Argyiinis atjlaia (1) with basal two-thirds black, except a yellow dis- 

 coidal spot (on the under side the silver spots were reduced to two on 

 each hind wing ; (2) with greenish blotch on both left wings, similar to 

 those frequently found in A. paphia ; (3) with black spots on the central 

 portion of the under side run together into irregular bands ; (4) two 

 unusually daik females, one having an unpigmented patch on both 

 left wings ; also a long series of Melanippe gaiiata, showing extreme 

 variation in the width and intensity of the band. Mr. Urwick, a 

 graduated series of variations of Abraxas ulmata from smoke-coloured 

 to almost white; hermaphrodite var. of Argynnis paphia, having the 

 right wings var. valezina, and the left wings ordinary male type, except 

 a few dark splashes ; a suffused var. of the same species ; several 

 vars. of Lithosia quadra showing variation in depth of colour and 

 absence of spots ; a sagittate variety of Epinephele hypeianthus and grey 

 forms of the same species ; a richly banded form of Ephyra pendularia; 

 and sixteen very striking varieties of Chelonia plantaginis, showing a 

 complete gradation between the extreme form with pure white ground 

 colour and black markings to a much intensified form of var. hospita, 

 being an inbred series. Mr. Nevinson, Malacosnma casfrensis showing 

 extreme variation ; a light form of Lasiocampa tri/oUi ; light and dark 

 forms of Cosmotriche pntatmia ; Arctia caia with radiated black markings 

 on hind wings ; hybrids Pyyera curtiUa x T. pigra ; light and dark 

 Heliothis peltigera ; a banded form of Zonosoina linearia ; and extreme 

 li^ht and dark forms of Melanippe fluctuata. Mr. F. M, B. Carr, an 

 example of Diloba ctemleocephala, in which the 8-mark is represented 

 by two small spots ; a Coretnia propugnata (disignata) with a very 

 narrow brown transverse band, and one without a trace of the flame 

 colour ; and a male Malacusovia neustria with scarcely any sign of the 

 pale transverse lines. Mr. H. J. Turner, a series of Callimorpha hera, 

 taken in August at Dawlish, showing a complete gradation in colour 

 between the rich red of the type, through the terra-cotta form to the 

 brilliant yellow form, var. lutescens ; and a very long and varied series 

 of Bryophila muralis (glandifera) from the same place, remarkable in 

 all the forms being dark, many of a rich yellow brown coloration, most 

 ■with black markings conspicuous, and in all the hind wings were dark, 

 and in some very dark, Mr. Adkin and Mr. Colthrup, series of the 



