27 

 JANUARY 2yd, 1896. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Reports of the Council and Treasurer were read, and 

 the Officers and Council for the year were elected as under : 



President. — Richard South, F.E.S. 



Vice-Presidents. — C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. , Thos. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. 



Treasurer. — R. Adkin, F.E.S. 



Librarian. — H. J. Turner, F.E.S. 



Curator.— 'W. West. 



Hon. Secretaries. — Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., &c. {Corre- 

 sponding), H. J. Turner, F.E.S. {Report). 



Council. — C. A. Briggs, F.E.S., J. H. Carpenter, John T. 

 Carrington, F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S., W. Mansbridge, 

 F.E.S., W. A, Pearce, H. A. Sauze. 



The President read his Address, and votes of thanks were 

 unanimously passed to all the officers. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Argynnis latona, and con- 

 tributed the following note thereon. 



" On behalf of one of our country members, Mr. W. E. 

 Butler, of Reading, I exhibit two specimens of Argynnis 

 latona, sent to him by Mr. B. Stafford Chope as British. 

 As this is one of those species, British specimens of which 

 have a high money value, and Mr. Chope has brought him- 

 self pubhcly forward by writing to the " Entomologist," 

 Mr. Butler thinks that a record of their capture should be 

 made. 



"The first specimen was sent from Axminster, Devon, 

 on April 3rd, 1894, with the following note. ' I have sent 

 you an A. latona, as a speciality. I only took five last season 

 (they came from Roseberry Woods, near Exeter), and I 

 hope you will admire it.' On December 3rd, 1895, Mr. 

 Chope, writing from 117, Queen's Gate, S.W., offered Mr. 

 Butler another specimen, stating, ' I have to spare a very 

 fair specimen of latona, one of three I took this year in 

 Hants,' &c. This was sent to Mr. Butler with a long 

 letter on December loth, in which Mr. Chope writes, ' Re 

 latona. General statements such as the one you refer to in 



