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1S76, near Oakleigh Park. Mr. Tugwell, specimens of Deilephila gain, Schiff ., bred 

 by him from the large number of larvae taken by him at Deal, in 1888, together with 

 continental examples of the species, and remarked that the most probable explanation 

 of the unusual abundance of galii last season was that of immigration. Mr. Billups 

 exhibited exotic Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Homoptera, and three species of 

 Coleoptera — Sagra Buquetii, Lac, from Java, S. chrysochlora, Lac, from Australasia, 

 and S. ccerulata, Lac, from Madagascar. Mr. W. West, two specimens of Calosoma 

 sycophanta, L. ( $ and ? ), one captured in 1873, at Freshwater Bay, and the other in 

 Greenwich Park, in 1888. The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibi- 

 tion of microscopical objects by the members. 



April 11th, 1889.— The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. A. Dennis, of Kingsland, and G. E. Dench, of Tufnell Park, were 

 elected Members. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited a bred series of Nyssia hispidaria, Hb., showing extreme 

 form of dark coloration, and bred series of Tceniocampa leucograplia, Hub. Mr. R. 

 Adkin, Euchromia myghidana, Schiff., E. arbutella, L., and Coccyx nemorivaga, 

 Tgstr., bred from larvae in shoots of the common bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva- 

 ■ursi, Spreng.), from Forres. Mr. South, series of Plusia iota, L., including two of 

 the variety percontationis, P. pulchrina, Haw., and made some remarks on the 

 differences ; two series of Epunda lichenea, Hub. , one from Plymouth, and the other 

 from Portland ; the specimens from the first mentioned locality were fairly typical, 

 the others were small, gi-eenish-grey specimens, with but little, if any, of the pink 

 or reddish tinge characteristic of the type ; Eubolia limitata, Scop., and Bupalus 

 piniaria, L., from various localities. Mr. Jenner Weir, some butterflies, which he 

 has desquamated by the " Waterhouse process," and remarked that although the 

 scales of the wings were dissolved, yet the hairs remained unaffected, and that the 

 green pattern on the wings of such butterflies of Fapilio lurlinus and Tirumala 

 Petiverana retained its colour after the desquamation, the markings were, therefore, 

 not merely superficial in these insects. A paper, " On the origin of the genus 

 Anthocharis, Bdv.," by Mr. Cockerell, was read ; he, Mr. Cockerell, was of opinion 

 that the genus was by no means ancient, and that it arose directly from an old Pierid 

 stock, and that probably on the American continent ; Mr. Weir, Mr. South, and 

 Mr. Tutt made some observations on Mr. Cockerell's paper. Mr. Wilkinson exhi- 

 bited several species of Scorpions. — H. W. Bakkek, Eon. Sec. 



Entomological Society oe London: April 3rd, 1889. — Mr. F. Dtj-Cane 

 Godman, M.A., F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. Cant, of 93, Robert Street, Regent's Park, N.W. ; Mr. C. Cave, of 13, 

 Lowndes Square, S.W. ; Mr. N. F. Dobree, of The New Walk, Beverley ; Mr. J. 

 Harrison, of Gawber Road, Barnsley ; Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Beaumont Park, 

 Huddersfield; and Mr. B. G. Nevinson, M.A., F.Z.S., of 6, Tite Street, Chelsea, 

 S.W., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin exhibited specimens of Ornithoptera trojana, Staud., and 

 0. Plateni, Staud., received from Dr. Staudinger, and obtained in Palawan, an island 



