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L., the red colour of the secondaries being replaced by blue ; 

 the variety was taken by Dr. Laver at Colchester. Mr. Weir 

 observed that the wings were of the same colour as C. fraxini, 

 L. 



JANUARY 2a^h, 1889. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 T. R. BiLLUPS, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Rev. J. Greene, M.A., F.E.S., was elected a member. 



The evening was devoted to receiving the reports of the 

 Council and Officers, the election of Officers for 1889, and the 

 reading of the retiring President's address. 



FEBRUARY i^th, 1889. 



T. R. BiLLUPS, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. A. Vine was elected a member. 



Mr. J. T. Carrington exhibited several specimens of a 

 Braconid, which Mr. Billups said was Rhogas circmnscriptus, 

 Nees, bred from a larva of Acronycta alni, L., found in 

 Carmarthen, 1888. 



Mr. Weir exhibited three male and three female specimens 

 of a butterfly he had received from the Falkland Islands. 

 They were of the same genus as our well-known Brenthis 

 {Argynnis), selene, Hiib., and B. etiphrosyne, L., and were 

 apparently closely allied to the Chilian Brenthis anna, Blanch. 

 (Mr. Weir has since ascertained that they were the Argynnis 

 cytheris of Drury.) It was an interesting fact that Palaearctic 

 and Neartic genera of Lepidoptera reappeared at the southern 

 parts of South America which were quite unknown over a 

 vast extent of the intermediate latitudes ; but it should be 

 borne in mind that there was in the American continent 

 an almost continuous chain of mountains from the Arctic 

 Ocean to the Straits of Magellan, which might have formed 

 a connected temperate region, by which the migration of 

 species from the north to the south may have been effected, 

 at a time when the temperature of the earth was different 

 from that which now obtains. 



Mr. W. H. Tugwell exhibited a variety of Deilephila galii, 

 Schiff., bred 1889, from larvae obtained at Deal. Two of this 

 form were bred, but as a rule this species is wonderfully 



