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The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— December Uth, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Special Meeting. — It was agreed unanimously at an 

 unusually large meeting to increase the annual subscription to ten 

 shillings and the life subscription to six guineas. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 —Mr. K. G. Todd, of Barnet, Mr. G. E. H. Peskett, of Ilford, Mr. 

 Mr. A. Quarrington, of Norwood, and Mr. E. A. Stowell,_ B.A., of 

 Kingston, were elected members. — There was a special exhibition of 

 Bumicia jMceas and its alHes. Mr. Tonge, series from the south-east 

 counties, and bred Continental specimens ; Mr. Newman, on behalf 

 of Mr. Quarrington, ab. schmidtii and striated forms ; the Eev. G. 

 Wheeler, series from England, S. France, and S. Switzerland, in- 

 cluding suffused examples, ab. caruleoiyunctata, ab. hiimnctata, ab. 

 unipunctata, &c. ; Mr. E. Adkin, representative series from Eastbourne 

 this year, and analysed the variation occurring there ; Mr. A. E. 

 Gibbs, series from England, North-east France, East Pyrenees, 

 Corsica, Algeria, Turkistan, and Japan, together with many closely 

 allied species from the Paltearctic and Nearctic regions ; Mr. Turner, 

 series including ab. alba from Brasted; Mr. E. South, a selection 

 illustrating the ordinary variation, including ab. schmidtii, and pointed 

 out how the variation of the American representative hypophlaas 

 had almost parallel variation ; Mr. Cowham, ab. schmidtii from 

 Oxshott ; Mr. Frohawk, a long bred series of C. dispar var. rutilus 

 from Continental ova ; Mr. C. P. Pickett, long and varied series of 

 four broods in 1911, and many aberrations taken during the past ten 

 years ; Mr. Edwards, closely allied Central and East Asian forms ; 

 Mr. Kaye, bred specimens. In the subsequent remarks it was noted 

 that the species had appeared in great abundance even in gardens 

 and streets, that there were extremely few striking aberrations, that 

 the later broods were generally darker, that the larvae hybernated 

 in any instar, and that the species was by no means common in 

 Switzerland. — Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a drawer of the 

 Society's cabinet in which he had arranged the British Hymenoptera 

 recently presented to the Society. — Mr. Ashdown, a collection oi 

 Lepidoptera taken by him in Switzerland and near Chamonix in 

 June and July last. — Mr. Newman, a number of well-marked 

 aberrations from the collection of Mr. Hills, of Folkestone.— Mr. 

 Quarrington, a fine blue female of Polyommatus icarus. — Mr. 

 Buckstone, a series of variations of Emat^irga atomaria. — Mr. South, 

 a long series of three generations of Acidalia virgularia reared in 

 1911, from a female taken at Bishop Auckland in 1910.— Mr. Joy, 

 two autumn bred specimens of Apatura iris, the rest of the brood 

 going over as larvee as usual. — Mr. Blenkarn, light and dark examples 

 of Lithosia deplana, and a specimen of the cockroach Periplaneta 

 australasicB taken from a case of oranges from Jamaica. — Mr. Edwards, 

 the remarkably sexually dimorphic species Euripus halitherses, of 

 which the female mimics a Euplcea. — Mr. Pickett, a very richly 

 marked aberration of Hipparchia semele. 



January llth, 1912. — Mr. A. Sich, F.S.E., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. -Mr. C. G. Gahan, M.A., F.E.S., of the British Museum 

 (Natui^al History), and Mr. N. S. Sennett, F.E.S, of South Kensington, 



