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Kane exhibited Stauropusfagi, L., taken in Ireland ; a damaged example of Noto- 

 dotita hicolor, Hb., taken at a new locality ; a photograph of the pupa of Dianthcecia 

 Barrettii, Dbl., and said he felt certain from the structure of the pupa that it 

 belonged to the Dianthcecim ; among other things in Mr. Kane's box were some 

 curious forms of Fidonia atomaria, Tr., Bryophila muralis, Forst., Boarmia cinc- 

 taria, SchifP., Cymatophora or, Fb., Xylophasia monoglypha, Hufn., densely blackish 

 forms of Camptogramma hilineata, L., Hadena oleracea, L., and Agrotis lucernea, 

 L. Some interesting notes were contributed by Mr. JKane upon his exhibits, and a 

 discussion followed. Mr. Purdey, of Folkestone, among others, the banded form of 

 Cidaria siiffumata, Hb. ; long series of Cidaria truncata, Hufn., reared from ova, 

 and including some beautiful varieties ; a specimen of Colias Hyale, L., taken at 

 Folkestone in 1891 ; Peronea comariana, Zell. ; and a long series of Eupithecia 

 Stevensata. Mr. Mera, varieties of Lyccena Icarus, Eott., L. hellargus, Eott., and 

 Abraxas grossulariata, L. Mr. Oldham, a very dark specimen of Hadena oleracea. 

 Mr. R. Adkin, Hypsipetes sordidata, Fb., and Melanippe fluctuata, L., and con- 

 tributed notes. Mr. Herbert Williams, living larvse of Colias Hyale. Mr. Billups, 

 the Dipteron Stratiomys potamida, Mg., and its rare Hymenopterous parasite Smicra 

 sispes, Sp., both having been captured in the Plumstead Marshes. — H. W. Baekeb 

 and A. Shoet, Son. Sees. 



Entomological Society of London : December ^th, 1892. — Frederick 

 DitCane G-odman, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death, on the 2nd December, of Mr. Henry T. 

 Stainton, F.E.S., an ex-President of the Society. A vote of condolence with Mrs. 

 Stainton was passed by the Meeting. 



Mr. Frank Bouskell, of 11, Lansdowne Eoad, Stoneygate, Leicester ; Mr. G-eorge 

 C. Dennis, of Tower Street, York ; Mr. Charles B. Headley, of Stoneygate Eoad, 

 Leicester ; Mr. William Mansbridge, of Luther Place, Horsforth, near Leeds ; and 

 the Eev. George W. Taylor, of St. Barnabas, Yictoria, British Columbia, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Jeimer Weir exhibited a species of Acrcea from Sierra Leone, which Mr, 

 Eoland Trimen, who had examined the specimen, considered to be a remarkable 

 variety of Telchinia JSncedon, Linn. It was a very close mimic of Limnas Alcippus, 

 the usual Western African form of Limnas Chrysippiis. The upper wings of the 

 specimen were rufous, and the lower white, as in the model, and the resemblance in 

 other respects was heightened by the almost total suppression of the black spots in 

 the disc of the upper wings, characteristic of the usual markings of T. Encedon. 



Mr. F. J. Hanbury exhibited a remarkable variety of Lyccena Adonis, ez,nght in 

 Kent this year, with only one large spot on the under-side of each upper wing, and 

 the spots on the lower wings entirely replaced by suffused white patches. He also 

 exhibited two specimens of Noctua xanthographa of a remarkably pale brownish- 

 grey colour, approaching a dirty white, obtained in Essex in 1891 ; and a variety of 

 Acronycta rumicis, also taken in Essex, with a beautiful dark hind margin to the 

 fore- wings. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a living specimen of a species of Conocephalus, a 

 genus of LocustidcE, several species of which, Mr. C. O. Waterhouse and Mr. 

 McLachlan stated, had been found alive in hothouses in this country. 



