2\Q [February, 1869. 



January 10th, 1889. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. E. Adkin exhibited Noctua glareosa, Esp., from Kent, Bamsley, York, 

 Perth, Forres, and Shetland. The Shetland specimens, and one of those from Perth, 

 approaching a melanic form, the others being of the pale grey or slightly rosy type. 

 Mr. J. A. Clark, dark varieties of Cidaria suffumata, Hb., from Forres, black and a 

 suffused form of Melanthia bicolorata, Hufn., from Forres, and a variety of Oporabia 

 dilutata, Bork. Mr. Tugwell, a series of Boletobia fuliginaria, L., with empty pupa 

 case, and sketches of the larvae. Mr. W. White, a coloured drawing of a variety of 

 Catocala nupta, L., having the inferior- wings blue, the insect was taken at Colchester 

 by Dr. Laver. Mr. E. Joy, bred specimens of Pygcera pigra, Hufn., from Wicken Fen. 

 Mr. Chittenden, very black forms of Acidalia inornata, Haw., taken at Ashford, 

 Kent. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited, with other species, a female specimen of Anosia 

 Plexippus, L., which he had received from Mr. Cockerell, Colorado, and stated that 

 although in this specimen the inner edge of the wing was quite as black as those 

 received by him from Canada and Hudson's Bay, it yet differed in the colour of the 

 spots in the fore-wings being all white, whereas, in the northern specimens, the four 

 large central spots were of a fulvous-brown, little inferior in richness to that of the 

 disc ; at the same time he showed the water-colour which Miss Crallan had made 

 from the specimen taken at Lindfield, 1876, from which it appeared that the example 

 then captured resembled the more northern form of the species. Male and female 

 specimens of Pieris oleracea were also exhibited by Mr. Weir, who said he had 

 always contended this species was not identical with P. napi, and he had received a 

 communication from Mr. Scudder, who wrote that he had now been able to make the 

 comparisons wished, and could report that the two species could be distinguishable 

 from each other in the caterpillar and chrysalis stages, as surely and readily as P. napi 

 and P. rapes could be distinguished in the same stages. Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited 

 eighty species of parasitic Hymenoptera, with cocoons from which many of them 

 had emerged, and, in some cases, the larvae from which reared. — H. W. Babkee, 

 Son. Secretary . 



Entomological Society of London : Fifty- Sixth Annual Meeting, January 

 16th, 1889.— Dr. D. Shaep, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



An Abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts, showing a balance in the Society's 

 favour, was read by Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., one of the Auditors ; and Mr. H 

 Goss read the Report of the Council. It was announced that the following gentle 

 men had been elected as Officers and Council for 1889 : — President, the Right Hon 

 Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S. ; Secre 

 taries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S 

 Librarian, Mr. Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; and as other Members of Council, Mr 

 Henry W. Bates, F.R.S. , Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.L.S., Mr. William H. B. Fletcher 

 M.A., Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, M.A., F.R.S., Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., Mr 

 Philip Brooke Mason, F.L.S., Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., and Dr. David 

 Sharp, F.L.S. 



Dr. Sharp, the outgoing President, then delivered an Address, for which a vote 

 of thanks to him was moved by Mr. Elwes, seconded by Mr. Salvin, and carried. 

 A vote of thanks to the Treasurer, Secretaries, and Librarian was moved by Mr. J. 

 W. Dunning, seconded by Lord Walsingham, and carried. Mr. Saunders, Mr. Goss, 

 and Mr. Grut severally replied. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



