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SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — Annual General Meeting. — January 25th, 1912. — Mr. W. J. 

 Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — The Eeports of the Council and 

 Officers for the past year were received and adopted. The following 

 is the list of Council and Officers elected for the ensuing year : — 

 President : A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents : W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., 

 and B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S. ; Treasurer: T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; 

 Librarian : A. W. Dods ; Curator : W. West (Greenwich) ; Hon. 

 Secretaries: Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., and H. J. 

 Turner, F.E.S.; Council: C. W. Colthrup, F. W. Cowham, A. E. 

 Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., E. A. E. Priske, F.E.S., A. Eussell, F.E.S., 

 A. Sich, F.E.S., and E. Step, F.L.S.— Mr. W. J. Kaye read the 

 Annual Address. — Votes of thanks were passed to the Treasurer, 

 Secretaries, and other officers. — Ordinary Meeting. — Mr. A. E. 

 Tonge, F.E.S., President, took the chair. — Mr. A. C. Morris, of Upper 

 Norwood, and Mr. F. W. Frohawk, of Wallington, were elected mem- 

 bers. — Mr. Edwards exhibited the so-called "silver fish," Lepisma 

 saccharina. — Mr. Main, a narcissus bulb, sent him by Mr. Winkworth, 

 which had been attacked by the larva of the Dipteron, Merodon 

 equestris, which was often extremely injurious in nurseries. Mr. 

 Adkin, a Tinea pallescentella taken on Christmas Day, apparently 

 just emerged. — Mr. Moore, a number of butterflies from the interior 

 of Borneo, including Papilio evemon var. P. itamputi, Terias gradiens, 

 Hestia iogani var. virgo, Danisepa loioii, and Terias tilaha. They 

 were sent home to him packed in fragments of the flannel shirt of his 

 friend who collected them, a successful method of combatting the 

 excessive superabundance of moisture in the atmosphere of the local- 

 ity. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Report. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The 

 fourth meeting of the session was held in the Eoyal Institution, 

 Colquitt Street, Liverpool, on January 15th, 1912. — A large number of 

 interesting lantern shdes were exhibited by Dr. Cotton, Dr. Tinne, 

 and Mr. O. Whittaker. Dr. Tinne's slides included many beautiful 

 coloured examples taken by the Lumiere and other colour processes. 

 — Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a series of Folia chi, showing the usual 

 range of melanic variation, from the Huddersfield district, and, also, 

 on behalf of Mr. A. W. Boyd, a case of Micro-Lepidoptera from 

 various localities in Cheshire, among them being Mixodia schulziana, 

 Sciaphila liyhridana, Sophronia parenthesella, Ghelaria hubnerella, 

 Argyresthia pygmceella, Peronea comariana, etc. — Oscar Whittaker 

 and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Sees. 



OBITUARY. 



Samuel James Capper, F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. 



Mr. Capper, of Hazle View, Huyton Park, Huyton, whose death 

 we announced in our February issue, was a son of Joseph and Mary 



