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MAY \2th, 1 910. 



Mr. A. SiCH, F.E.S., Vicc-Pyesideiit, in the Chair. 



Mr. Lyle, of Brockenhurst, was elected a member. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a series of twenty Mclitcsa 

 aurinia, taken near Verney Junction, Bucks, by Mr. J. 

 Mathison, of Winslow, about the year i8go, but apparently 

 since that date the species has become extinct in that 

 locality. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a variety of Asphalia flavicornis, 

 in which the costa was unusually light, and there was 

 a dark blotch in the disc of the wing about midway between 

 the costa and the hind margin. It was taken at Mickleham, 

 in March, igio. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a number of species of the 

 genus Pavnassim, including P. transiens, P. mnemosync, P. 

 insignis, P. orleansi, P. imperaior, P. gracialis, P. havdwickii, 

 P. delius, P. apollo, P. phoebus, P. sminthens. It was noted 

 how much the Japanese P. citrinarius (glacialis) was super- 

 ficially like Aporia cratcEgi. 



Mr. Coulson exhibited an extremely pale buff example of 

 Phigalia pedaria, taken in Epping Forest. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited about fifty species of butter- 

 flies, met with by him at Zermatt in early August, iQog, in 

 more or less abundance ; and read a paper on the exhibit, 

 entitled " A Few Days with the Butterflies of Zermatt " 

 (p. iS). 



MAY 2ist, 1910. 



Field Meeting at Oxshott. 

 Conductors : W. J. Lucas, B.A., and A. Sich, F.E.S. 



The first field meeting of the year is always one to look 

 forward to ; it is the opening of the out-door campaign of 

 the Society. Although many of the members have passed 

 the days of earliest youth, yet " hope springs eternal in the 

 human breast," and we all expect, as every new summer 

 season arrives, to gain new entomological experience, to add 

 new species to our collections, and to renew acquaintance 

 with the various species we have met with on previous 

 occasions. Twenty members, animated by these or kindred 



