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the larval cases mounted in situ on the ruined leaves of their respective 

 food-plants. He also exhibited living larvae and their cases, of Gonio- 

 doma limo7iiella on Statice Umoniam, Coleophora obtusella on Juncus 

 mantiiiiiifi, and C. r/IaacicoleUa (?) on Juncus glaucus, which three 

 species he had received from Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, who obtained 

 them in the Isle of Wight. — Commander J. J. Walker read a paper by 

 Mr. A. M. Lea, entitled " The Blind Coleoptera of Australia and Tas- 

 mania," and exhibited specimens of Illaphanus stephensi, MacL, from 

 Watson's Bay, Sydney, N.S.W., and Fhycoctus graniceps, Brown, and 

 P.sulcipennis, Lea, from Hobart, Tasmania. — H. Rowland-Beown, M.A., 

 Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Thursday, August 2ith, 1905.— Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. — Mr. Carr exhibited Trmna {Acronycta) tridens, 

 female, from Clandon, with larvae and bred specimens of T. psi. — Mr. 

 Harris, a short series of Phorodesma smaragdaria, bred from Essex 

 larvae. — Mr. Main, a large exotic longicorn beetle, taken alive at 

 Silvertown. — Mr. West (Greenwich), ordinary undeveloped forms and 

 developed forms of the hemipteron Nahis brevipennis, from Darenth. 



Thursday, September lith. — The President in the chair. — The 

 President referred in suitable terms to the death of Mr. N. D. Warne, 

 for years an active member of the Society. — Mr. South exhibited (1) a 

 long series of Acidalia virgularia [incanaria), and remarked that the 

 specimens, which were bred in April, were all very large, and much 

 darker than usual. From ova deposited by some of the females 

 another generation was reared in July, but the individuals of this 

 brood were small and of the usual colour ; in size they agreed with the 

 autumn female parent of the April specimens; (2) Rhacodia emargana, 

 with var. caudana, var. effractana, and var. excavaua; and (3) a bred 

 series of large and strongly marked Coremia unidentaria. — Mr. Goulton, 

 excellent photographs of lepidopterous larvae. — Mr. Smallman, a beau- 

 tiful xanthic variety of Ccemmympha pamphilus, taken on Wimbledon 

 Common in August. — Mr. Kaye, for Mr. Richards (1), series of Aci- 

 dalia dilutaria, one of normal forms, the other of darker and yellower 

 specimens; (2) Macuria liturata var, nigrofulvata ; and (3) pup^ of 

 Anarta myrtUli. — Mr. West (Greenwich), a large collection of butter- 

 flies from West Africa. — Mr. Main, a photograph of a larva of Phoro- 

 desma smaragdaria. — Mr. Sich, larvae and cases of Coleophora laripennella 

 on Chenopodium. — Mr. South, larva and case of C. liviosipemiella from 

 birch at Oxshott. — Mr. Penn Gaskell, ova clusters of Ocneria dispar 

 from San Sebastian, where they were abundant in early September. — 

 Dr. Chapman, examples of Ercbia scipio from the Basses-Alpes, and 

 the white glistening cocoons of the coccid Eriopeltis festuca, and con- 

 tributed notes. 



September 28th. — Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. F. M. B. Carr exhibited a variety of Aglais urtica taken at Chalfont 

 Road, in which the blue marginal spots are absent, and the black basal 

 area is more extended than usual.^Mr. Moore, the insects taken by 

 him during the Society's field-meeting at Clandon, on July 15th. — 

 Messrs. Harrison and Main, (1) Apatura iris, bred from a New Forest 

 larva hybernated on sallow in a sleeve ; (2) Ccenonympha typhon {davus) 



