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JANUARY 2T,rd, 1890. 



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



Messrs. G. A. Lewcockj P. Bright, and W. Gardner were 

 elected members. 



This being the Annual General Meeting, the evening was 

 devoted to receiving the reports of the Council and Officers, 

 and the election of Officers and Council for the year. 



President: Mr. John T. Carrington. Vice-Presidents : 

 Mr. W. H. Tugwell, Ph.C, and Mr. J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. Ho7i. Treasurer: Mr. E. Step. Hoiz. Curator : 

 Mr. W. West. Hon. Librarian : Mr. D. J. Rice. Hon. Sec- 

 retaries : Mr. H. W. Barker, F.E.S., and Mr. D. J. Rice. 

 Council: Messrs. R. Adkin, F.E.S. ; C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. ; 

 T. R. Billups, F.E.S. ; C. A. Briggs, F.E.S. ; T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. ; R. South, F.E.S. ; and J. R. W^ellman. 



FEBRUARY \yh, 1890. 



J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that Mr. A. Bliss, who was, at 

 one time, Hon. Secretary of the Society, died on the 29th 

 January. A resolution was passed, expressing sympathy 

 with his widow and relatives. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a very pale variety of Hesperia 

 lineola,Och.s., taken by Mr. H. W. Vivian in Cambridgeshire, 

 flying with specimens of H. thaumas, Hufn., a specimen of 

 Epischnia bankesiella, taken at Portland, and recently named 

 and described by Mr. Nelson Richardson, and a specimen of 

 Retinia margarotana, H.-S., a species new to Britain, found 

 in the collection of Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, and ascertained 

 to have been taken in the North of England along with 

 Retinia pinivorana, Zell. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett also exhibited a long series of Phycis 

 adornatella, Tr., from various localities, and remarked that 

 some fifteen or twenty years ago, Professor Zeller expressed 

 the opinion that there were two distinct species, the second 

 being known as siiboriiatella, Dup. Although the markings of 

 the two were very much alike, in the western specimens, 

 which were recognised as subornatella, there was a slight 

 difference apparent in the length of the wing, and in the fore- 

 wing there was an indistinct fascia of white scales, this in fact 

 became one of the distinguishing characteristics. In the 

 course of time specimens of this form were obtained from 

 many localities, including the Isle of Man, the East and West 



