436 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. 



October 5, 1887. — Dr. Sharp, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Jacoby exhibited a specimen of AphthonoUles Beccarii, Jac, a 

 species of Haltica having a long spine on the posterior femora. He 

 also exhibited a specimen of Rhagiosonia madagascariensis, and remarked 

 that it had the appearance of a Longicorn. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a very dark specimen of Crambus perlellus from 

 the Hebrides, which its captor supposed to be a new species. 



Mr. Porritt remarked that this brown form of Crambus perlellus occurred 

 at Hartlepool with the ordinary typical form of the species, and was there 

 regarded as only a variety of it. 



Mr. Slater exhibited a specimen of Goiiepteryx Cleopatra, which was 

 stated to have been taken in the North of Scotland. 



Mr. Jenner Weir remarked that although the genus Rhamnus — to which 

 the food-])lant of the species belonged — was not a native of Scotland, some 

 species had been introduced, and were cultivated in gardens. 



Mr. South exhibited an interesting series of about 150 specimens of 

 Boarinia repandata, bred in 1876., and during the present year, from larvae 

 collected on bilberry in the neighbourhood of Lynmouth, North Devon, 

 including strongly marked examples of the typical form, extreme forms of 

 the var. conversaria, Hiib., a form intermediate between the type and the 

 variety last named, and examples of the var. destrigaria, Steph. Mr. South 

 said that an examination of the entire series would show that the extreme 

 forms were connected with the type by intermediate forms and their 

 aberrations. 



Mr. Poulton exhibited young larvae of Apatura Iris, from tlie New 

 Forest, also eight young larvae of Sphinx convoliuli reared from ova laid 

 on the 29th August last by a specimen captured by Mr. Pode in South 

 Devon. Mr. Poulton said the life-history of the species was of extreme 

 interest, throwing much light upon that of Sphinx ligustri, as well as 

 upon difficult points in the ontogeny of the species of the allied genera 

 Acherontia and Snierinthus. 



Mr. Stainton commented on the interesting nature of the exhibition, 

 and said he was not aware that the larvae of Sphinx convolvuli had ever 

 before been seen in this country in their early stages. 



Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that females of this species captured on 

 former occasions, when the insect had been unusually abundant, had been 

 found upon dissection to have the ovaries aborted. 



Mr. K. W. Lloyd exhibited two specimens of Elater powona, and one 

 of Mesosa nubila, recently taken in the New Forest. 



