﻿142 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 —January 23?d, 1890.— T. R. Billups, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. G. A. Lewcock, of Islington; W. Gardner, of Liverpool; and P. 

 Bright, of Bournemouth, were elected members. The Treasurer having 

 submitted his balance-sheet, showing a good balance to the Society's credit, 

 the Secretary read the Council's report for 1889, from which it appeared 

 that 44 members had been elected during the year, making a total mem- 

 bership of 223, consisting of 6 honorary, 3 life, 47 country, and 167 full 

 members. The election of officers was next proceeded with, and resulted 

 as follows :— Mr. J. T. Carrington, F.L.S., President ; Mr. W. H. Tug- 

 well and Mr. J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., &c, Vice-Pesidents ; Mr. E. Step, 

 Hon. Treasurer ; Mr. W. West, Hon. Curator; Mr. D. J. Rice, Hon. 

 Librarian; Mr. Barker and Mr. D. F. Rice, Hon. Secretaries; Messrs. 

 R. Adkin, F.E.S. ; T. R. Billups, F.E.S. ; T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; J. R. 

 Wellman ; R. South, F.E.S. ; C. A. Briggs, F.E.S. ; and C. G. Barrett, 

 F.E.S., Council. The retiring President then read his address, and the 

 meeting closed with votes of thanks to the various officers. 



February 13th. — J. T. Carrington, President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Barrett exhibited a long series of Phycis adornatella, Tr„ from various 

 localities, and remarked that some fifteen or twenty years ago a form 

 of this species was obtained from the west of England, which differed from 

 the specimens obtained at Box Hill, Surrey ; the chief distinguishing 

 characteristic being that the western specimens had a white fascia; this 

 form was considered by Prof. Zeller as a distinct species, and it received the 

 name of subornatella ; in the course of time specimens were obtained from 

 other localities, which were intermediate between the two forms, and it had 

 now been decided that subornatella was only a variety of adornatella. 

 Messrs. South, Adkin and Tutt made some remarks relative to this exhibit. 

 Mr. Barrett, on behalf of Mr. Vivian, exhibited Homaosoma sinuella, and 

 a variety of Hesperia lineola, taken in Cambridgeshire. Mr. Moore, a col- 

 lection of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, &c, from the coast of Labrador ; and 

 Mr. Weir pointed out that among them was a specimen of Polyommatus 

 phlaas, which was not a species one would expect to occur at Labrador. 

 Mr. Tutt exhibited photographs of varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, 

 Arctia caia, A. villica, Spilosoma lubricipeda, S. mendica, &c. Mr. 

 Lewcock, larvse and perfect insect of Meshim affine, Boisd. Mr. Carrington, 

 in his remarks on taking the chair, made some interesting suggestions for 

 the Society's work during the coming season. 



February 21th. — The President in the chair. Messrs. W. Smith, of 

 Paisley; W. Bloomfield, of Mildmay Park; and G. A. Farini, of Forest 

 Hill; were elected members. Mr. Bloomfield exhibited two specimens of 

 Hesperia lineola, taken in Essex, 1888. Mr. Watson, a nest of a species 

 of Mantis with two living examples of the insect; many other specimens 

 had emerged in transit from Sydney, where the species was said to occur 

 freely. Mr. Billups, Meopus trispinosus, Wat., from New Zealand ; Poro- 

 pleura monstrosa, Olivr., from Brazil; and read notes relative to his 

 exhibit. Mr. Billups also showed galls collected at West Cliff, Colorado, by 

 Mr. Cockerell, who wrote that the rose-galls were of three species: Bhodites 

 ignata, Osten-Sacken, from which an abundance of a parasitic Cynipid, 

 Pericluslus pirata, Osten-Sacken, would be bred; Bhodites fusiformis, anew 

 species, and the little blister-like galls on the leaves would produce Rhodites 

 rosafolice, Cockerell. Of the willow-galls, the reddish fusiform ones pro- 



