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Entomolo&ical Society of London : February Sth, 1893. — Henry John 

 EiWES, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated Mr. F. DuCane Godman, 

 F.R.S., Mr. Frederic Merrifield, and Mr. Greorge H. Verrall, as Vice-Presidents 

 during the Session 1893—1894. 



Mr. Charles R. C. Hibbert, of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex ; Mr. Oswald 

 B. Lower, of Bleak House, Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia ; and Mr. John 

 Baxter Oliver, of 12, Avenue Road, St. John's Wood, N. W., were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Chcsrocampa celerio, in very fine con- 

 dition, captured at light, in Hastings, on the 26th September last, by Mr. Johnson. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens of Gihbium scotias and Pentarthrum 

 Bvttoin, taken by Mr. W. Rye in a cellar in Shoe Lane. He stated that the Gibhium 

 scoHns lived in a mixture of beer and sawdust in the cellar, and that when this was 

 cleaned out the beetles disappeared. The FentartTirum Huttoni lived in wood in the 

 cellar. He also exhibited Mesium affi,ne, taken by himself in a granary in Holborn. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a large Noctuid moth {Erebus odora, L.), which had 

 been placed in his hands by Mr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., of the Meteorological Office. 

 It was stated to have been taken at sea in the South Atlantic, in about lat. 28° S., 

 long. 26° W. Colonel Swinhoe and the Pi-esident made some remarks on the species, 

 and on the migration of many species of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited ]a.vvse and pupae of Rhynchnphorus falm.arum, 

 L., the Gru-gru Worm of the West Indian Islands, which is eaten as a delicacy by 

 the Negroes and by the French Creoles of Martinique. He stated that the existence 

 of post-thoracic stigmata in the larv^a of B. cnoentatus had been mentioned by 

 Candeze, but denied by Leconte and Horn. They were certainly present in the 

 larva of B. palmarum, but wei'e very minute. He also exhibited a piece of a drawing 

 board, showing extensive injury by longicorn larvae during a period extending over 

 seven years. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited two varieties of Arctia luhricipeda from York ; an 

 olive-banded specimen of Bonibyx quercus from Huddersfield ; and a small melanic 

 specimen of Melanippe hastata from Wharncliffe Wood, Yorkshire. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a few species of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, He^nipttra, and 

 Neuroptera, sent to him by Major G. H. Leathern, of the 31st Regiment, who had 

 collected them, last June and July, whilst on a shooting expedition in Kashnii 

 territory, Bengal. Some of the specimens were taken by Major Leathem at an 

 elevation of from 10,000 to 11,000 feet, but the majority were stated to have been 

 collected in the Krishnye Yalley, which drains the glaciers on the western slopes of 

 the Nun Kun range. Mr. Elwes remarked that some of the butterflies were of 

 gi'eat interest. 



Mr. G. F. Hampson exhibited a curious form of Parnassius, taken by Sir Henry 

 Jenkyns, K.C.B., on the 29th of June last, in the Gasternthal, Kandersteg. 



Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a long series of remarkable varieties of Boarmia 

 repandata, taken last July in the New Forest. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a photograph of tlie middle of the eye of a 

 male 'iabamis, showing square and other forms of facets, multiplied 25 times. 



Mr. Roland Trimen communicated a paper, entitled, " On some new, or 

 imperfectly known, species of South African Butterflies," and the species described 

 in this paper were exhibited. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell communicated a paper, entitled, " Two new species of 

 Pah'inatia from Jamaica." 



Mr. Martin Jacoby communicated a paper, entitled, "Descriptions of some new 

 genera and new species of HalticidiV." — H. Goss, H.o}i. Sccreiary. 



