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Leistotrophus nebulosus in Ireland.— Among some Coleoptera sent to me for 

 identification by the Rev. S. A. Brenan, of Cushendun, County Antrim, was a 

 specimen of Leistotrophus nebulosus, which does not appear to have been recorded 

 from Ireland previously.— W. F. Johnson, Armagh : February, 1889. 



Meloe rugosus, Marsh., at Broadstairs.— On the 1st of December last, I picked 

 up a specimen of this insect on a pathway in Broadstairs— a curious date, and a 

 somewhat strange locality. Among a few Coleoptera taken near Berkeley, 

 Gloucestershire, last May, I find a specimen of Liosomus oblongulus. — Theodore 

 Wood : February 4th, 1889. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 January 24th, 1889.— T. R. Billups, Esq., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Eev. Joseph Greene, M.A., E.E.S., was elected a Member. 



Mr. W. H. Tugwell exhibited a fine bred series of Deilephila galii, Schiff . Mr. 

 J. A. Clark, Acidalia immorata. Mr. Adye, forms of Argynnis Paphia, L., var. 

 Valesina, Esp. Mr. Tutt, on behalf of the Eev. C. A. Sladen, a black and almost 

 spotless variety of Strenia clathrata, L.,and a melanic specimen of Agrotis simulans, 

 Hufn, from the Hebrides. 



The Treasurer then read an Abstract of his Accounts for 1888, showing a balance 

 of £24 15s. in favour of the Society. The Eeport of the Council was read by the 

 Secretary, and the following were elected as Officers for 1889 :— Mr. T. R. Billups, 

 E.E.S., President, Mr. J. T. Carrington, F.L.S., and Mr. W. H. Tugwell, Vice- 

 Presidents, Mr. E. Step, Treasurer, Mr. W. West (Greenich), Curator, Mr. D. J. 

 Eice, Librarian, Mr. H. W. Barker, F.E.S., Secretary, Mr. H. J. Turner, Assistant 

 Secretary, Messrs. E. Adkin, E.E.S., C. A. Briggs, F.E.S., T. W. Hall, F.E.S., J. 

 Henderson, W. Manger, J. E. Wellman, and J. J. Weir, E.L.S., Council. 



February 14th, 1889.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. A. C. Vine was elected a Member. 



Mr. E. Adkin exhibited examples of Acrtia Caia, L., from Morayshire and Kent, 

 and Hydracia nictitans, Bork, from Morayshire. Mr. Tugwell, a marked variety of 

 Choerocampa porcellus, L., also a variety of Deilephila galii, Schiff, bred from larvae 

 taken at Deal ; he remarked that he had bred two of this variety, and to the present 

 time, seventy of the normal form. Mr. Turner, light forms of Zygoma filipendulce, 

 L., from Reigate. 



Mr. Weir exhibited three male and three female specimens of a butterfly he had 

 received from the Falkland Islands. They were of the same genus as our well- 

 known Brenthis Selene and B. Fuphrosyne, and were apparently closely allied to 

 the Chilian Brenthis Anna, Blanch. Mr. Weir stated he had not yet been able to 

 make the necessary references, but he was at present disposed to regard them as a 

 species new to science, and if, upon future examination, he found his view correct, 

 he proposed for them the name of Brenthis falMandica. It was interesting that 

 Palaarctic and Nearctic genera of Lepidoptera re-appeared in the southern part of 



