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Dixey, some cocoons and perfect imagines of hybrid Saturniids, in- 

 cluding female and male of S. pavonia, L. x S. pi/ri, Scheff., with 

 added specimens of both sexes of the parent forms for comparison, 

 the cross product resembling a large S. pavonia rather than a 

 small S. pyri. The exhibit further included three males and three 

 females, of which the female parent was S. pavonia and the male 

 parent a hybrid between S. pavonia male and S. apini female, viz. the 

 cross product to which Professor Standfuss has given the name 5. borne- 

 manni. These six individuals had been reared from ova supplied by him, 

 and Dr. Dixey gave an account of their life-history. The remaining 

 four examples of the hybrid — S. schaufussi disclosed far less strongly 

 marked sexual differences than in S.^nivonia. — Professor E. B, Poulton, 

 F.R.S., groups of synaposematic Hymenoptera and Diptera captured 

 by Mr. A. H. Hamm ; three broken specimens of Pajnlio iiesperus, taken 

 at Entebbe in 1903, by Mr. G. A. Wiggins, showing that the tails of a 

 Popilio, if untouched by enemies, can endure a great deal of wear ; and 

 Nymphaline butterflies from Northern China, apparently mimetic of the 

 male Hypolimnas misippus, which is not known to occur in that region. 

 The President, a number of examples of Pymmeis atalanta and a 

 pair of Arjlaias urtica, illustrating the effects of cold season breeding, 

 by Mr. Harwood of Colchester. — Mrs. De la B. Nicholl read a paper 

 on "Butterfly-hunting in British Columbia and Canada," illustrated 

 by numerous examples of the species captured during the summer of 

 1904. — Sir George Hampsou, B.A., F.Z.S., communicated a paper on 

 " Three Remarkable New Genera of Micro-Lepidoptera." — Mr. Herbert 

 Druce, F.LS., F.Z.S., a paper entitled " Descriptions of Some New 

 Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. Harold Cookson in 

 Northern Rhodesia in 1903-4 ; Lycffiuidffi and Hesperiidge by Hamilton 

 H. Druce, F.Z.S."— Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., D.C.L., a paper 

 entitled " Descriptions of Some New Species of Satyridte from South 

 America." — Mr. W. L. Distant, a paper entitled, "Additions to a 

 Knowledge of the Homopterous Family of Cicadidae." — H. Rowland- 

 Brown, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 February Qth, 1905.— Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the 

 chair. — A special exliibition of Hybernia defuUaria males had been 

 arranged, and series were shown by Messrs. Rayward, Pratt, Crow, 

 Browne, Hickman, Harrison, Main, Goulton, and Tonge. The variation 

 ranged from uniformly dark forms to uniformly light ones, with con- 

 siderable variation in widths and colour of the transverse markings. 

 It was noted that the males migrated in large numbers, bat no well 

 ascertained facts were known as to the distribution of the females. — 

 Mr. Rayward. living females of H. rupicapraria from Wallington. — 

 Mr. Crow, on behalf of Mr. Hickman, the whole of the imagines and 

 varieties bred from the brood of Arctia caia, referred to at the Exhibition 

 of Varieties in November, 1904. Several extreme forms had scarcely 

 any white or light markings, and yet the usually dark markings ap- 

 peared through a veil of semitranspareut smoky scales. There were no 

 intermediates. — Mr. Kaye, two forms of the rare HeLiconius pasitho'e 

 from the Demarara River. — Mr. Adkin, a series of Lycana {Cupido) 

 minima, taken last year at Eastbourne, and showing an unusual 

 amount of blue in the males.— Mr. South, a long series of very varied 



