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Mr. Bernard H. D. Harrison, of Claremont, Ashieigh Road, Barnstaple ; 

 and Mr. Charles Fielding Johnson, of Mayfield, Binnington Crescent, 

 Stockport, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 exhibited specimens of Pierinae belonging to the genera Teracolus and 

 Huphind, The exhibit was intended to illustrate the fact that in 

 species of which the wet-season phases were very distinct from 

 each other, the corresponding dry-season phases often could only be 

 discriminated with difficulty. — Mr. G. C. Champion showed, on behalf 

 of Mr. J. Edwards, five forms of Osphya, together with certain other 

 species occurring at the same time and place, and which, having 

 regard to gait and appearance, resemble them more or less closely. It 

 was not suggested that these resemblances are protective. Attention 

 was also drawn to an important function of the hind legs of the male, 

 namely, to secure him in position at the time of pairing. — Mr. H. J. 

 Carter showed a microscopic slide, prepared to demonstrate that the 

 antennae of the genus Trachiscelis have eleven joints, and not ten 

 as hitherto described. — Mr. Kenneth J. Morton communicated a paper 

 on " Odonata collected by Lt.-Colonel C. G. Nurse, chiefly in North- 

 Western India." — Mr. W. J. Kaye communicated a paper on " The 

 Life History of Cydinion ( Urania) leilus," by L. Guppy, Junior, 

 which was followed by a discussion on the migration habits and 

 classification of the species. Commander J. J. Walker said that he 

 had met with it at Panama, where it was believed popularly that the 

 insect made daily migrations from one side of the isthmus to the other. 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt said that Mr. Guppy's description of the egg at once 

 determined that the species should not be included in the Geouietrinae. 

 The details suggested that it belonged to the butterfly stirps. The 

 President and other Fellows also joined in the discussion. — H. 

 Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Thursday, March 14«/i. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 — -Mr. South exhibited the various named forms of Xonagria gemini- 

 puncta. — Mr. Tonge, photographs of a female Hybernia marginalia and 

 a male Pkigalia pedaria, both at rest on trunks, the former most 

 inconspicuous, the latter very conspicuous ; also the former insect set 

 on the bark as taken. — Mr. Newman, bred series of Plusia bractea 

 from Aberdeen, and an example from Fermanagh. — Mr. R. Adkin, 

 series of Hadena protea from Rannoch and South England, the former 

 specimens being much less green and much brighter. — Mr. Turner, 

 the various named forms of Pararge mar a from various Continental 

 localities, and read a note on the directions which the variation takes 

 in this species, pointing out an extreme form of var. adrasta taken by 

 him in the Pyrenees. — Mr. Harrison, a series of the same species from 

 Meiringen, including a very fine var. triopts. — Mr. Turner, a number 

 of species taken in Switzerland by Mr. Harrison in 1906, including 

 Boletobia fidiginaria, Gnophos glaucinaria, G.pullata, Psodos quadrifaria, 

 P. alpinata, &c. — Dr. Chapman, living specimens of Thais polyxma 

 from the South of France. — Mr. B. Adkin, specimens of the following 

 species, being transition forms between the typical forms and the 

 named varieties : Boarmia repandata, B. abietaria, Eupithecia venosata, 

 and E. pidehellata. — Mr. Fremlin, a large number of specimens bred 



