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and Council for the Session 1910-1911 : — President, W. J. Kaye, 

 P.B.S. ; Vice-Presidents, A. Sich, F.E.S., and A. B. Tonge, F.B.S. ; 

 Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.B.S. ; Librarian, A. W. Dods ; Curator, 

 W. West (Greenwich) ; Hon. Secretaries, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.B.S. (Corresponding), and Hy. J. Turner, F.B.S. (Reporting) ; 

 Council : R. Adkin, F.B.S., S. R. Ashby, F.B.S., B. C. Joy, P.B.S., 

 H. Main, F.B.S., A. M. Montgomery, F.B.S., R. A. R. Priske, F.B.S., 

 and B. H. Smith. A letter was read from Mr. Kaye, thanking the 

 Society for the honour done him, and explaining his absence for the 

 next few months as due to his having undertaken an expedition to 

 Southern Brazil in search of Lepidoptera and evidences for or against 

 mimetic resemblance. The President then read his address, and 

 hearty votes of thanks were passed to the Oflficers and Council. 



Ordinary Meeting : Mr. A. Sich, F.B.S. , Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. R. D. Morford, of Upper Kennington Lane, was elected 

 a member. — Mr. Tonge and Mr. Colthrup exhibited long series of 

 Hyhcrnia aurantiaria, H. defoliaria, and Himera pennaria, taken in 

 New Forest, November 17th to 19th, 1909, where they were abun- 

 dant, in spite of the weather being clear and frosty. Mr. Colthrup 

 exhibited a Gonepteryx rhamni, found at the same time, hibernating 

 among holly. — Mr. Turner, a short series of the beautiful Limonias 

 {MelitcBO) taylori, and specimens of Basilarchia lorquinii from 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island. A short discussion took place on the 

 hibernating habits of G. rhamni and Orrliodia rnbiginea. 



February 10th, 1910.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — The deaths were announced of two members, Mr. Kirkaldy 

 and Mr. McArthur. — Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited a series of the 

 brilliant Lycaenid Danis taygetes from Brisbane, obtained by Dr. 

 Lucas, an old member of the Society. — Mr. J. P. Barrett, a box 

 of conspicuous insects of various orders from near Messina, Sicily, 

 including an immature mantis and a Pieris hrassica it had captured 

 on a flower-head. — Mr. Coote and Mr. Barnett exhibited Hybernia 

 defoliaria, which species was said to have been very abundant at 

 West Wickham from November to mid-January. — Mr. Moore, a box 

 of various species of Diptera, mainly from Africa, and which were 

 instrumental in spreading disease. — Mr. West, Ashstead, a specimen 

 of the " fish " insect, Lepisma saccharina, which had existed two 

 months without food. — A number of members brought microscopes and 

 slides, and the rest of the evening was spent as a microscopical one. 



February 2Uh. — Mr. A. Sich, F.B.S.,. Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. G. S. Robertson, of Dulwich, was elected a member. — 

 Dr. Chapman exhibited a bred living specimen of Gallophrys avis 

 from South France, and pointed out its divergence from the closely 

 related C. rubi. — Mr. Barnett, a long series of Hybernia aurantiaria 

 from West Wickham Wood, where it was abundant in November of 

 last year. — Capt. Cardew, gynandromorphs of Amorpha po])uli, 

 Agrotis puta, and Dry as paphia, the last-named captured in the 

 New Forest. — Mr. Russell, a strikingly aberrant form of Polyom- 

 matus icarus, from Reigate ; the under side was striated on the right 

 wings only. — Mr. Sperring, Agrotis agathina, from Chiselhurst, and a 

 smoky example of Arctia villica. — Mr. Adkin, a bred series of 

 Peronea pernmtana, from Sussex, and read notes on its occurrence 



