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first the great incentive ; the direction it took later, whether 

 it ended in science or the more or less purposeless destruction 

 of insects, was a matter of later detail and development. 

 He again congratulated the retiring President on the excel- 

 lent record shown by his year of office, and congratulated 

 the Society on having obtained so excellent a successor. 



In reply to the vote of thanks, Mr. Main thanked the pro- 

 poser and seconder for the kind things they had said and 

 the members for the way in which the remarks had been 

 received ; he also would like to add that it had been a real 

 pleasure to occupy the chair which he had just left. 



Votes of thanks were then passed to the Officers and 

 Council of the past year. 



Ordinary Meeting. 



Mr. Bellamy exhibited a "black" form of Anthrocera 

 (Zygtzna) trifolii captured at Ringwood on June 25th, 1899, 

 and described as follows in the " Entomologist," vol. xxxii, 

 p. 210 : " The fore-wings are, in certain lights, of the usual 

 glossy greenish-black colour, but the spots, on close inspec- 

 tion, are conspicuous, appearing to be more thickly scaled 

 and consequently more opaque than the rest of the wings ; 

 the borders of the hind wings are of the same greenish hue 

 as the ground of the fore-wings, whilst that portion of the 

 hind-wings usually red is of a dull smoky black, with slight 

 indications of a dark central mark on inner margin. The 

 body is black and somewhat shaggy, and at some distance 

 the whole insect appears to be of a uniform black colour." 

 He considered this form to be unique, although a similar 

 form occurs occasionally in A . filipendiilce. Mr. Tutt stated 

 that, far from this being the only specimen, he believed there 

 were several others recorded, and he had no doubt the facts 

 would be detailed in "The Nat. Hist, of Brit. Lep.," where 

 he had summarised the known facts relating to our British 

 species of burnets. Oberthur and others had specimens of 

 this form. It was subsequently suggested that the form had 

 been named ab. obscura, in January, 1899 (Tutt, " Brit. Lep.," 

 vol. i, p. 487) from a specimen of M. Oberthur's, and 

 references to other examples are there given (" Var. chez 

 Lep.," p. 43, 1896; "Ent. Rec," vol. i, p. 331 [33 in error]). 



Mr. Bellamy also exhibited — 



(1) A fine specimen of Polyommatus corydon var. fowleri, 

 South, taken at Swanage, figured and described in the 



