64 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



-Dr. Edward Hart Vinen (elected 1876). 

 *Mr. Henry Virtue Tibbs (elected 1876). 



Mr. Peter Hinckes Bird (elected 1880). 



Eev. George Henslow (elected 1881). 



Dr. William Francis (elected 1881 ; died 1904). 



Dr. Christopher Dresser (elected 1883). 

 =;=Dr. Thudichum (elected 1884). 



Mr. G. H. Verrall (elected 1887). 



Dr. Philip Brooke Mason (elected 1891 ; died 1903). 



Mr. Bobert Adkin (elected October, 1892). 



1898. 



A new Code of Laws adopted. Membership reduced to eight. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt (elected January, 1898). 



Mr. T. W. Hall (elected January, 1898). 



Mr. Horace St. John Donisthorpe (elected November, 1900). 



Mr. Arthur Chitty (elected March, 1904 : died 1908). 



Prof. E. B. Poulton (elected March, 1904). 



Mr. H. Boioland-Broion (elected May, 1908). 



The names of the present members of the Club are printed in 

 italics. It is hoped that some of our readers may be able to furnish 

 short biographical notes of those members indicated in the above list 

 by an asterisk. 



An historical sketch of the Entomological Club is published in the 

 'Entomologist' for 1892, pp. 4-9, and there is further reference to it 

 in the 1899 volume of the same Journal, pp. 160-164 and 224-226. 

 The Laws of the Club are printed in the ' Entomologist ' for 1898, 

 pp. 41-42. 



EicHARD South, Hon. Sec. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



The ab. porrittii of Cidaria suffumata. — For the sake of 

 clearness in the future it seems advisable to state that the figure of 

 Cidaria suffumata given as ab. porrittii in Mr. South's most excellent 

 second volume of the ' Moths of the British Isles ' just published 

 (plate 72, fig. 2) does not represent the form as originally named by 

 Robson. The figure has evidently been taken from a specimen of the 

 well-known so-called " Dover form," whereas the ab. p)orrittii is really 

 a black and white moth, the white by daylight being a little " creamy." 

 The basal mark and central band are black, the rest of the wings 

 white, with the exception of the short line near the apex of the fore 

 wings, the minute marginal dots, and the faint darker clouding at the 

 base of the hind wings. The form is well figured in the ' Entomolo- 

 gist ' of May, 1878, and in Barrett's ' Lepidoptera of the British 

 Islands,' vol. viii. pi. 359, figs. If^and Ih. The " Dover form" has 

 the pale parts of the wings marked with brown. It also always 

 occurs in South-west Yorkshire along with ab. porrittii, and in much 

 greater numbers, and that ab. porrittii is the extreme form of it (in 

 which the brown is obliterated) is proved, I think, by the fact that I 



