116 



rapa:, males with under-sides heavily dusted, and males 

 perfectly white, without black tips to the fore-wings, all from 

 Dawlish. 



Mr. Sperring exhibited a very long series of Orrhodia 

 vaccina, taken this autumn at Shooter's Hill, comprising 

 most of the named forms of the species. 



DECEMBER gth, 1909. 



Captain P. A. Cardew, R.A., of Wimbledon, and Mr. 

 P. A. Tautz, of N. Audley St., were elected members. 



Mr. Sich exhibited specimens of Gelcchia hcruiannella, in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Mr, Turner exhibited male and female specimens of the 

 rare moth, Eudcemonia hrachyura, from Sierra Leone. This 

 species is remarkable for the extreme length of the "tail" 

 on the hind-wings. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a box of exotic Hemiptera, of 

 which perhaps the most noticeable was a specimen of the 

 large Heteropteron, Macrocercea grandii, from Tenasserim. 



Mr. J. Platt-Barrett exhibited two pupas of Hyles euphor- 

 bia, found by him in Sicily, and an immature specimen of 

 the mole cricket, Gryllotalpa vulgaris, found by him in his 

 bedroom in Messina. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited selected specimens of Anthrocera 

 trifolii, including specimens of a very small race, 23-30 mm. 

 in expanse, and a pale pink and grey form ; specimens of .4. 

 hippocrepidis, with the small sixth spot not detached from the 

 fifth, as if budding from it ; and specimens of A. filipendnlce, 

 pale grey and pink forms, from three localities in Sussex, 

 Surrey, and Hants ; and from the last locality a very broad 

 bordered specimen, with the sixth spot nearly obsolete. 



Mr. Barnett exhibited a dark form of Chceiinatobia horeata 

 from West Wickham, and of Oporahia dilntaria from Wim- 

 bledon. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Agriades {LyccBua) 

 coridon females taken during September last in one small 

 district near Eastbourne. The specimens included forms in 

 which (a) the hind-wings only showed distinct blue scaling ; 

 (b) in which blue scaling was apparent on both fore- and 

 hind-wings ; (c) having the marginal lunules without red 

 colour ; (d) with the red strongly developed ; (e) with blue 

 crescentic markings to the lunules; (/) with white crescentic 

 markings to the lunules; (g) dark brown undersides; (h) pale 

 undersides ; and (j) dark grey under-sides. 



