18 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



brought home and some striking Callimmus, probably the handsome 

 green and cream C. femandezi, Bol. The whole material, zoological, 

 botanical, and geological is the property of the Caucasus Museum, 

 Tiflis ; the funds were supplied by the generosity of General Yanush- 

 kievich, formerly Chief of Staff to the Grand Duke Nikolas. The 

 material was being handed over to specialists when the tragedy of the 

 Revolution cut our Russian colleagues off from contact with humanity. 

 — M.B. 



js^ C I E T I E S . 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 



June 13«/t.— Prof. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., was elected an 

 honorary member. 



The evening was mainly devoted to an exhibition of living speci- 

 mens of Natural History. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited living larvae of Anatis ocellata (Col.), and 

 living imagines of PJiaqium. inquisitor (Col.). 



Mr. R. Adkin, winter " nests " and living larvse of Euproctis 

 similis (auriflua) and of E. ckrysorrhaea, the one solitary in hibernation, 

 the other gregarious ; and also living Scoparia dubitalis and its white 

 form to show the Depressaria -like attitude of the latter. 



Mr. H. Main, various early stages of Chrysomela graminis on Tansy, 

 of Timarcha violaceo ■nigra on Wood-ruff, of Timarcha tenebricosa, of 

 Necrophorus nwrtuoruni, (all Col.), of Gastrophilus equi(Di'p.),oi Podisus 

 luridus (Hem.), of Pseudoterpna pruinata and Coleophora genistae on 

 Petty-whin, and of Dasychira pudibunda. 



Mr. Dennis, living larvffi of Dicranura vinula feeding on aspen, 

 and stereoscopic slides. 



Mr. K. G. Blair, various early stages of the Mosquitoes, Anopheles 

 macidipennis, A. bifarcatus, and Culex pipiens, of the wasp Odynerus 

 spinipes, of the beetles Lema melanopa, and the two sexes of Ptilinus 

 pectifiicornis, and on behalf of Mr. P. W. Campion the rare beetle 

 Gnoriinus nobilis, from Ealing. 



Mr. Bunnett, a flower of Anemone nemorosa, in which the sepals 

 were leaf-like, with photographs of the palmate newt and of the cris- 

 tate newt, and a common lizard, which had reproduced its tail which 

 had originally been broken off. 



Mr. H. Moore, a living Angiades sylvanus, and seasonal forms of 

 the American Papilio marcelliis (ajax), the spring form, and form 

 telamonides, the late spring form, a transition to lecontei [marcellus), 

 the summer form. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a melanic specimen of Alsop)liila aescularia from 

 Mansfield, and Pyrameis atalanta, with pale red bands, from Cornwall 

 and Ireland. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk, the rare Trichius fasciatus (Col.), from S. 

 Wales, a male Euvanessa antiopa, from N. Britain, a series of female 

 Pieris brassicae, showing gradation in the development of a band on 

 the fore-wings, one example having a black spot on the hind-wing. 



Mr. Lachlan Gibb, the very rare yellow form of Pieris rapae, from 

 Canada. 



Mr. Neave, a partially banded Pieris brassicae, bred from Nasturtium. 



Mr. Simms, larvse of Ruralis betulae and Stryinon pruni. 



Mr. Edwards, a Calosoma sycophanta, from Epping Forest. 



