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last June at Whitstable, Kent, the first British examples having been 

 taken in the larval state by Mr. E. D. Green in 1906 ; also a pair of 

 Goleophora chalcogrammella, Zell., taken last August in Richmond 

 Park, Surrey, this species formerly occurring near Scarborough, but 

 not apparently taken hitherto in Britain further south than Suffolk. 

 — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a bred series of Nonagria neurica, Hb. {edelsteni) 

 from Sussex, including two new aberrations for which he suggested 

 the names riifescens and fitsca. He mentioned that, as far as he was 

 aware, these two forms had not been previously noted on the Conti- 

 nent. He showed, also, ova and pupa in situ, with photographs by 

 Mr. Hugh Main to illustrate the life-history of the species. — Mr. 

 W. G. Sheldon brought for exhibition a case containing several series 

 of PieridcB taken by him this year at Herculesbad. He drew atten- 

 tion to those labelled as Pieris rapa, suggesting that some of them 

 might be P. crgane or P. manni, to which respectively they bear a 

 remarkable resemblance superficially. He also exliibited the two 

 "fireflies," Luciola mingrclica from Herculesbad, and PJiausis splen- 

 didulus, male and female, from Hohe Tatra. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited 

 two imagines and a larva of the finest of our Neuroptera, Osmylus 

 chnjso'ps ; the exhibit was made on account of the larva which was 

 taken by Dr. D. Sharp, F.E.S., near Queen's Bower in the New Forest. 

 It pierces and sucks dry some small animals, but its life-history is not 

 well known. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff showed a teratological specimen of 

 a Carabid beetle from Ceylon {Omplira, Latr., sp.). The middle 

 femur of the right side was dilated at the distal end, bearing at its 

 anterior angle two supplementary tibise coherent at the base ; the 

 rudimentary tarsi were also adherent. — Mr. A. W. Bacot showed two 

 boxes containing pupal cases of Aglais urticce collected by Mr. Hugh 

 Main in one locality. Those taken from the food-plant were yellowish 

 white ; those taken from the cage in which the larvje pupated quite 

 black ; thus demonstrating the effect of surroundings upon the pupal 

 coloration. — Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper "On 

 Callophrys avis," a Palaearctic butterfly new to Science. 



Wednesday, December 1st, 1909.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. — The Secretary again read out the list of nomina- 

 tions published at the previous meeting. — Mr. W. C. Crawley, of 

 Tollerton Hall, Nottingham, and Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, M.A., of New 

 College and 3, Blackball Eoad, Oxford, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — The President announced that the Society would hold a 

 Conversazione in the month of May, 1910, and invited the co-operation 

 and assistance of Fellows. — Commander J. J. Walker exhibited one 

 hundred and twenty-eight species of Coleoptera, belonging to sixty- 

 eight genera, which he had taken, by sweeping only, at Wytham 

 Park, Berks, between 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. on November 5th, 1909. 

 Several local and uncommon species were included among these, such 

 as Homalota imherula, Sharp, Anisotoma cinnamomea, Panz. (both 

 sexes), A. jntnctiilata, Gyll., Hydnobius punctatissimus, Steph., 

 Gryptophagus pubescens, Sturm, Phloeophilus edivardsi, Steph., Man- 

 tura matthewsi. Curt., Salpingus castaneus, Panz., Apion filirostrce, 

 Kirby, &c. — The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows sent for exhibition examples 

 of an unidentified species of Liiperina taken during the past season 



