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specimens of the following insects: — Aleochara crassiuscula, Sahib., 

 taken at Great Yarmouth in May, 1908 ; varieties of Donacia 

 dentipes and D. simplex, from Caistor Marshes ; Nabis hoops, 

 Schioclte, taken at Esher, in August, 1908 ; and Idiocerus scurra. 

 Germ., taken at Blackheath, Kent, in September, 1908. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman brouglit for exhibition specimens of (a) Grymodes exuhs 

 from the Shetlands, including the rare female ; (b) Callimorpha 

 dominula, two yellow aberrations bred from East Kent ova. In 

 1906 a yellow female was bred. This was paired with a typical red 

 male, and the result in 1907 was that the whole brood were typical 

 Beds. These Beds were paired, and in 1908 the brood (a small one) 

 produced 25 per cent, of the yellow form ; (c) a varied series of 

 Camptograinma fluviata from Eastbourne ; and (d) a yellow aberra- 

 tion of Noctiia rubi, from Yorkshire. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited a 

 number of Central and South American butterflies belonging to six 

 different subfamilies, but all showing the same obvious character of a 

 diagonal reddish band on a general dark surface. He stated, in 

 reference to sorae remarks made by Mr. W. J. Kaye on a previous 

 occasion, that although there was no direct geographical continuity 

 between the areas of distribution of several of the species shown, 

 there appeared to be sufficient connection of an indirect kind to 

 warrant the supposition that the whole constituted an assemblage of 

 mimetic character. The following papers were read or communi- 

 cated: — "Bionomics of Butterflies," by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M. 

 " Some Additions to the Perhdae, Neuroptera-Planipennia and Tricho- 

 ptera of New Zealand," by L. J. Hare, F.E.S. " On the Larv^ of 

 Hamanumida dadalus. Fab., HopUtis phyllocanqja, n. sp., and Sulo- 

 phonotus myrmeleon, Feld, with Descriptions of the Imagines of the 

 two Heterocera," by Eoland Trimen, F.E.S. " k. Eevision of the 

 Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidee," by A. M. Lea, F.E.S., 

 Government Entomologist, Tasmania. — H. Eowland-Brown, M.A., 

 IIo7i. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 ^ocii&TY. —September 10th, 1908.— Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited a series of bred 

 Macaria liturata var. nigrofulvata from Delamere ova. Of the four- 

 teen specimens bred, thirteen were of the dark form. — Mr. Newman, 

 varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, including ab. varleyata, ab. nigro- 

 sparsata, dark forms, and a rayed specimen ; a very darkly powdered 

 Selenia illustraria; two Gnophos ohscuratavox. mundata iromJuev^e^; 

 a rayed form of Pieris napi; a yellow aberration of Noctua rubi; and 

 a long bred series of Argynnis aglaia with much variation. — Mr. 

 Turner, a fine female of Euvanessa antiopa taken at Vitznau on 

 August 10th, and a well-marked and brilliant female under side of 

 Erebia czthiops taken at Gersau on July 27th. — Mr. Hall, an abnormal 

 flower of the sweet pea, having six parts and all separate, without a 

 "keel." — Mr. Noad Clark, photomicrographs of the ova of Coleophora 

 virgaurecB laid on the pappus hairs of Solidago virgaurea. They 

 were upright eggs, and the young larvas emerged from the micropyle. 

 — Mr. Step, a Diloba cceruleocephala bred by his son, in which the 

 "80" mark was blurred and extended. — Mr. West (Greenwich), 



