914 |. THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
was one of the original members of the Society in 1872, and the Hono- 
rary Curator from the beginning. 
Frenca captures.—Mr. H. Main exhibited from the 8S. of France, 
larvee of Ascalaphus sp., Euvanessa antiopa, Papilio alexanor, P. poda- 
lirtus, and Myrmelion sp., with ova of Parnassius apollo and Mantis 
religiosa, with parasites of the latter. 
A LocaL cockroacu. —Mr. Priske, the cockroach KE ctobia persptcil- 
laris, with its egg cases and the larva of Microdon sp. (Dip.) from an 
ant’s nest. 
Axserration oF P. arananta.—Mr. B.S. Williams, Pyrameis atalanta 
having the lowest subapical blotch absent. 
Recorps.—Mr. Step, living specimens of Dorcas parallelopipedus 
(Col.) from Wimbledon Park, and reported the Mountain Polypody, 
Polypodium phegopteris plentiful near Lyndhurst, Hants. 
THREE RECORDS OF Micro-LEprpopTERa.—Mr. Sich, pupal cases of 
Aphelosetia (Hlachista) cerussella and the larval mines in a leaf of Phrag- 
mites communis, gathered at Byfleet during the Society’s Field Meeting 
in July; and also the three British species of the genus Uchsen- 
hetmeria. 
S. retraLunaria.—Mr. Bunneit, Selenia tetralunaria from Farn- 
borough, Kent. 
August 26th.—Hasirs, rrc., or M. reniciosa.—Mr. H. Main 
exhibited the early stages of Mantis reliyiosa from 8. France, and several 
spiders, and gave notes on their habits as observed by him. 
ABERRATION OF P. pLANTAGINIS.—Mr. Bowman, a male Parasemia 
plantaginis in which the right hindwing was suffused. It was of a 
brood of which 55 out of 60 pup emerged in four days. 
Variation in H. rurcata, Erc.—Mr. Barnet, series of Hydriomena 
furcata, including green, light banded, variegated, and very light forms, 
from §. Devon, very yellow forms of Hmaturga atomaria from Limps- 
field, and a Plebeius aegon from Oxshott, with an unusually wide white 
submarginal band on the underside. 
Hasirs or C. rrpEneLia.— Mr. Sich gave details of the habits of the 
newly hatched larva of Coleophora ibipennella. 
PotymoreHism oF P. memnon— Mr. Edwards and Mr. Grosvenor, 
many forms of the polymorphic species Papilio memnon from the Indo- 
Malay Region. 
Mr. Edwards then read a series of notes on the species. 
Tur South Lonpon EnromonoGicaL anp Natrurat History Socisrty. 
September 9th.—Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., Vice-President, in. 
the chair. 
Mr. J. B. Farmer, of Brixton, was elected a member. 
Mr. Bowman exhibited a series of the spring-emerged half of a 
brood of Ephyra porata from ova and remarked on their close resem- 
blance to the allied EH’. punctaria. 
Mr. Main, larve of three parasites (Hym.) which attacked the 
Longicorn (Col.) Rhagium inquisitor in Epping Forest. 
Mr. Turner, many species of Heterocera taken by Mr. Grosvenor in 
