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The South London Entomological and Natural Histoey Society : 

 April 13ih, 1893. — J. Jennee Weie, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited, tlirough the President, a specimen of Papilio Jovindra 

 from the Himalayan region, Mr. Weir remarking that the species was a mimic. 

 Mr. R. Adkin read an extract from an interesting letter addressed to Mr. Billups by 

 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell from Jamaica, and exhibited the leaves containing the species 

 of Coccidce referred to. Mr. Manger exhibited Dorippe japonica, a Crustacean from 

 Japan. Mr. Adkin exhibited a small collection of Sphinges and Bombyces from 

 Sutherlandshire, consisting of Sesia scoliiformis, Bork., Arctia Caja, L., Dicranura 

 vinula, L., Orgyia antiqua, L., NemeopMla plantaginis, L., and N. russula, L., the 

 male specimen of which had smoky hind-wings, and Odonestis potatoria, L., the 

 coloration of the female being intermediate between the sexes. The Secretary, Mr. 

 H. Williams, read a letter from Mr. Eobson, of Hartlepool, requesting aid from 

 Members of the Society in filling up forms he had prepared, asking for certain in- 

 formation as to meteorological conditions, &c., when sugaring for Noctuce, and thus, 

 by comparing results from different parts of the country, Mr. Robson hoped to come 

 to some conclusion regarding some of the anomalies of this subject. Mr. Eobson 

 said he would be happy to send forms to any applicant for same. Mr. Turner 

 reported the capture of Eupithecia nanata, Hb., JSmaturga atomaria, L., and larvae 

 of Therafirmata, Hb., T. variata, Schiff., and Ellopia fasciaria, SchifF., and Mr. 

 Carpenter said that Thecla rubi, L., had been taken at Eynsford, Eent, on April 3rd, 

 and Syrichthus malvcB, L., on April 9th. The remainder of the evening was devoted 

 to a long discussion with regard to the proposed excursions of the Society during 

 the ensuing summer. 



April 27^A, 1893.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a series of Tapinostola concolor, Gn., from Cambridgeshire, 

 and remarked upon the extremely restricted range of this species, and in how very 

 few localities it had been taken in any number, and he pointed out the confusion 

 that had arisen with regard to the nomenclature of this insect in consequence of 

 Hiibner's figure of T. extrema having blackish cilia. Mr. Weir mentioned that speci- 

 mens of Polyommatus dispar, Haw., had fetched £6 each on Tuesday last at Stevens' 

 Auction Rooms. Mr. W. H. Wright exhibited a very long and variable series of 

 JBombyx castrensis, L., bred from larvse captured on the banks of the Medway, and 

 mentioned that his experience was that unless the larvse were, say, within about a 

 week of being full-fed when captured, they usually refused to feed and seldom came 

 to maturity. Mr. R. Adkin and Mr. Tutt both corroborated this view, stating this 

 species was especially resentful to a change of habitat. In proof of the recent 

 extraordinarily fine weather, Mr. Tutt mentioned that Melitcea Cwaija, L., and other 

 June species were on the wing in Guernsey, and that LyccBua Argiolus, L., was 

 flying at Hereford during the first week in April, and Mr. R. Adkin noted the rare 

 occurrence of the Blackthorn {Prunus spinosa) and Whitethorn {Crataegus oxya- 

 cantha) being in blossom at the same time. In the course of some remarks upon 

 Colias Edusa, Eb., Mr. Tutt said it ought to have had a good chance of hibernating 

 here this last winter. In Algeria and Marocco it could be got in all its stages, with 

 the exception of the egg, nearly the whole year through, and that in the Mediterra- 

 nean littoral it practically did not hibernate at all, but one brood followed the other 

 in rapid succession. 



