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The South London Entomological and ISTatdeal Histoey Society. 

 November 22nd, 1888. — John T. Cabbington, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Messrs. W. G-. Dawson, F. E. Brown, A. Marshall, and J. Katz, were elected 

 Members. 



Mr. J. Jager exhibited Agrotis praecox, L., from Glamorganshire ; dark forms 

 of Acidalia marginepunctata, Groze, from South Wales ; Cidaria reticulata, Fb., 

 from the Lake District ; and Lobophora viretata, Hb., from Staffordshire. Mr. E. 

 B. Nevinson, Leucania putrescens, Hb., South Wales ; Acontia luctuosa, Esp., Surrey ; 

 two dark specimens of Heliothis peltigera, Schiff., one taken on the 15th and the 

 larva of the other on the 18th of August, which did not produce the imago until the 

 17th of September. Mr. R. Adkin, Pieris napi, L., from West Ireland, approaching 

 var. bryonies, Hb. ; Hllopia prosapiaria, Jj., from English and Irish localities, &c. 

 Mr. Tugwell, two specimens of Margarodes unionalis, Hb., taken in 1877, at Kings- 

 down, Kent, off flowers of Eupatorium cannabinum, L. ; two examples of Mecyna 

 polygonalis, Hb., both taken in 1877, one at Deal and the other at Kingsdown ; a 

 series of Eupithecia extensaria, Frey., from King's Lynn ; and Acidalia immorata, 

 L., from Lewes ; and contributed remarks. Mr. Henderson, examples of the second 

 brood of Tephrosia crepuscularia, Hb., from Oxfordshire. Mr. Hawes, ova of 

 JBombyx neustria, L., clustered round the stalk of the fruit of pear. Mr. West 

 (Streatham), Folia chi, from North Wales. 



December 13th, 1888.— T. K. Billups, Esq., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Gr. Tindall and M. Winkley were elected Members. 



Mr. Erohawk exhibited the specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, L., taken by him at 

 Chatham. Mr. R. Adkin, on behalf of Mr. Austin, a pale fawn-coloured variety of 

 Epinephele Janira, L. ; a strongly marked example of CcenonympJia PampMlus, L. ; 

 and other varieties. Mr. Carrington, a strongly marked variety of Vanessa c-album, 

 L., taken near Droitwich. Mr. Adye, unusually large and small examples of Selenia 

 tetralunaria, Hufn., and Metrocampa margaritaria, L. Mr. J. T. Williams, Acidalia 

 immorata, L., from Lewes ; Deiopeia pulchella, L., from Southbourne, 1876 ; and 

 Cymatophora or, Eb., from the Hebrides. Mr. Helps, Ptilophora plumigera, Esp. 

 (bred). Mr. R. South, British and foreign examples of the genus Dianthoecia, 

 allied to D. nana, Rott., and contributed notes thereon. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited 

 series of D. nana from Kent, Surrey, Shetland, and the Hebrides, and Mr. Hall 

 series of many species of Dianthoecia. Mr. South also exhibited a form of Gortyna 

 ochracea, Hb., from Perthshire. Mr. W. H. Tugwell, forms of Hypsipetes sordidata, 

 Eb., bred from larvae received from Huddersfield ; and Agrotis simulans, Hufn., 

 from Aberdeenshire. Mr. Manger, Dynastes Hercules, Fab., from Montserrat ; 

 Chalcosoma Atlas, Fab. ; Megalosoma Thesus, Fab. ; and a species of Qolofa, which 

 was not identified, from Brazil. Mr. Billups, fifty species of Chrysomelidce ; also 

 Miaris micros, Germ., taken by Mr. West in Headley Lane by siveeping in the 

 year 1884. Mr. West stated that the year lie took this species it was abundant, but 

 he had not been able to find it since. Mr. Billups also exhibited Hotinus clavatus, 

 Westw., taken by Mr. Elwes at Darjeeling in 1886. — H. W. Baekeb, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society oe London: Dec. 5th, 1888. — Dr. D. Shaep, F.L.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. B. A. Bower, of Eltham, Kent, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



