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were the other members who attended. Several other entomo- 

 logists were present, as guests, on each occasion. — Eichard South 

 {Hon. Sec). 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— May 8th.-- Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. E. B. Haynes, of Wimbledon, was elected a member. — 

 Mr. H. E. Page exhibited a short series of Erebia zapateri taken by 

 him in Spain, and which he was placing in the Society's cabinet. — 

 Mr. Hugh Main, two living field-crickets from Lisbon in the curious 

 cage in which they are kept for " singing." One specimen gave an 

 exhibition of his power in the room. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, larva and 

 pupa of Thera variata on spruce from the New Forest, and two fine 

 Saturniids from Nairobi. — Mr. Sich, Ehopalocera from the South 

 Tyrol, P. machaou, P. podalirius, Lybithea celtis, Scolitantides orion, 

 Glaucopsyche tolas, &c, and read a paper entitled " Spring in the 

 South Tyrol." 



May 22nd. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, President, in the chair. — Messrs. 

 Edwards, West (Ashtead), and Carr, exhibited pale blotched examples 

 of Epinephele jurtina; Mr. Adkin, a series from various British 

 localities, some near var. hispulla and one ab. splendida ; Mr. Gibbs, 

 a series from Algeria, Corsica, Balkans, Vosges, Jura, &c, including 

 var. hispulla, var. fortunata, var. taurica, &c, and short series of 

 other species of the genus, E. janioides, E. id a, E. pasiphae, 

 E. tithonus, with many vars. and aberrations ; Mr. Hy. J. Turner, 

 a series from Portugal, Spain, Pyrenees, Teneriffe, Hyeres, Corsica, 

 Algeria, Crete, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland (many places), Nieder- 

 wald, Juras, French Alps, &c. — Mr. Main, colour photographs of 

 Tephrosia crepuscularia taken by himself. — Mr. Tonge, bred series of 

 Lobophora carpinata from Tilgate Forest ; two specimens were 

 distinctly green tinged. — Mr. Turner read a paper entitled " One of 

 our Common Butterflies, Epinephele jurtina," showing the growth of 

 our knowledge of the species from the time of Linngsus, 1758, and 

 the consequent growth of the nomenclature. 



June 12th. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. E. Adkin exhibited tobacco leaves that were much infested by a 

 species of beetle which was afterwards identified as Anobium paniceum. 

 The tobacco came recently from Turkey. — Mr. West (Greenwich), a 

 series of the new heraipteron, Psylla albipes, discovered by him on 

 white-beam tree. — Mr. Coxhead, blackthorn leaves with galls of the 

 dipteron, Cecidomyia pruni, from Shooter's Hill. — Mr. Cowham, an 

 aberration of Abraxas grossulariata with the black markings on the 

 fore wings coalesced to a wide band suppressing the usual yellow 

 markings. — Mr. H. Moore, larvae of the stag-beetle, Lucanus cervus, 

 from Lewisham. — Mr. Blenkarn, a series of Bruchus pisi, a coleo- 

 pteron found by Mr. Main in split peas in a Woodford shop, and a 

 pair of the rare Pterostichus parumpunctatus taken at Chop well, 



