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entomological world, had incurred by the death of a past president, 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt, he proceeded to the subject of his Address, " Neuration 

 in its Bearings on the Classification of Lepidoptera." Votes of thanks 

 were then passed to the retiring Officers and Council. — Mr. Turner, 

 on behalf of Mr. Murray, of St. Anne's-on-Sea, exhibited a series of 

 Luperina gueneei taken at the above place, including the typical form, 

 the var. haxteri, and two new and very distinct forms, one of them 

 with a very pale, almost white submarginal band, which he was 

 naming var. murrayi, and of the other several very dark specimens, 

 which he was naming var. fusca. Both worn specimens, and others 

 in almost bred condition, were shown. — Mr. Newman, autumn bred 

 specimens of Polygonia c-alhum, var. hutchinsoni, a form of the 

 species hitherto only obtained in the summer brood ; they were from 

 the same female as the yellow forms previously exhibited. 



February 9th, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Wakeley, of Wimbledon Common, was elected a member. — Mr. 

 Newman exhibited shoots of birch, taken from the base of stumps of 

 cut trees, from which the larvae of Mgeria aUiciformis had been ex- 

 tracted by birds. It was stated that at times the larvae bore into the 

 twigs instead of into the stumps. — Mr. Hugh Main, twigs of aspen 

 swollen with galls caused by the larvae of the Longicorn beetle, Saperda 

 populnea. — Mr. Ashby, a series of Lasioderma serricorne, which was 

 found swarming in a house in Thames Street. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, on 

 behalf of Mr. Jupp, varieties of Ennomos angularia, with the two 

 transverse lines filled in with a dark fascia, Boarmia repandata 

 var. conversaria, with an unusually heavy black central fascia, and 

 TriphcBiia fimbria, with very strongly contrasted black and white 

 markings on the fore wings. — Capt. Cardew, a number of species 

 which had flown into light in a house on the Island of Dominica, 

 W. Indies, including four Sphingid species — Pachyla ficus, PJiolus 

 vitis, P. labruscce, Herse cingulata ; also Dciopeia ornatrix, Ecpan- 

 theria icasia, and the Syntomids, Argadea apta, and Gosmosoma 

 dcmantria, &c. — The rest of the evening was devoted to the exhibition 

 of microscopic slides by Messrs. West (Ashtead), Fremlin, Edwards, 

 and E. Adkin. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Eep. Secretary. 



City of London Entomological Society. — January 3rd, 1911. — 

 Exhibits : — Abraxas grossulariata ah. : Mr. G. Brooks, a specimen 

 with usual yellow markings obsolete, but ground colour of all wings 

 deep yellow. Epinephele ianira ab. : Mr. C. N. Collenette, all wings 

 bleached and usual fulvous patches and ocelli only faintly indicated ; 

 Salcombe, 1908. Sesia sphegiformis : Mr. G. H. Conquest, a number 

 of males taken at Brentwood, June, 1895, by assembling with bred 

 females. Melanic McUtcea aurinia : Mr. F. B. Cross, example with 

 basal three-fourths of supei-iors almost entirely black ; Cumberland. 

 Leucania l-albitm : Mr. H. M. Edelsten, an imago, bred, 1910. 

 Argynnis selene, local variation in size : Mr. A. F. Hemming, com- 

 parative series from Princethorpe (Warwick) and Ashdown (Surrey) ; 

 measurements showed that the largest and smallest male and largest 

 and smallest female from the former district were 8 mm., 3 mm., 

 7 mm. and 2 mm., wider respectively in wing expanse than corre- 

 sponding specimens from the latter locality. Melitcea aurinia, wide 



