THE SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION 



WAS HELD AT THE 



ST. MARTIN'S TOWN HALL, 



ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER ijth, 1895. 



Exhibition Committee : Robert Adkin, F.E.S. ; T. R. Bil- 

 lups, F.E.S. ; C. A. Briggs, F.E.S. ; J. H. Carpenter; 

 J. T. Carrington ; F. E. Filer ; T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; W. 

 Mansbridge, F.E.S. ; Richard South, F.E.S. 



Honorary Report Secretary. — H. J. Turner, F.E.S., 13, 

 Drakefield Road, Hatcham, S.E. 



Honorary General Secretary. — Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., 

 Kidbrook Lodge, Blackheath, S.E. 



British Lepidoptera. 



The President, Mr. Thomas William Hall, F.E.S., ex- 

 hibited an extensive selection, comprising, among other 

 things, a case prepared to show the life-history of Sesia sphegi- 

 formis, Fb., in which were a second year's larva; the second 

 and third years' larval workings ; male and female pupse — 

 pupge in situ, both before and after the imago had emerged ; 

 a series of alder sticks, showing the mode of working and 

 emergence, and a fine-bred series of the imago, all from 

 Tilgate Forest. A fine series of Colias ednsa, Fb., containing 

 specimens of the female with almost entire black band, and 

 two with a light brown band ; also a short series of the var. 

 helice, Hb. 



A short series of English Vanessa autiopa, L., and a fine 

 series of Apatnra iris, L., with the var. iole, Schiff., and an 

 intermediate form. 



A fine series of Chrysophanns dispar, Haw., and all the 

 TheclcB ; a series of Lycana semiargus, Rott. ; varieties of L. 

 hellavgus, Rott. ; and L. corydon, Fb. ; and a long series of 

 L. arion, L., both from the Coltswold and Cornwall loca- 

 lities. 



A long series of Lcelia ccenosa, Hb., with pupa case ; also 

 of Ocneria dispar, L., including the old fen form ; series of 



