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The following is a list of the Officers and Council for 

 1893 :— 



President.— Mr. J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., and Mr. C. 



Fenn, F.E.S. 

 Hon. Treasurer. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S. 

 Hon. Librarian. — Mr. H. J. Turner, F.E.S. 

 Hon. Curator. — Mr. W. West (Greenwich). 

 Hon. Secretaries. — Mr. F. W. Hawes, and Mr. H. Williams. 

 Council. — Messrs. H. W. Barker, F.E.S., F. W. Frohawk, 



F.E.S., J. Henderson, R. South, F.E.S., E. Step, W. H. 



Tugwell, Ph.C, and J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 



At the special meeting it was decided that no alteration 

 of the time of meeting should be made. 



FEBRUARY ^th, 1893. 



J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., etc. President, in the Chain 



. Mr. R. L. Sillar was elected a member. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited living larvae of Epinephele 

 ianira, L., some of which had completed their third, and 

 others their fourth, changes of skin. The ova were laid at 

 the end of July, 1892, and commenced hatching about the 

 15th of August. He remarked that these larvae fed, on and 

 off, throughout the winter months, seldom remaining for 

 more than ten or twelve days at a time without food, and 

 noticed that they rested head downwards at the roots of the 

 grasses on which they fed. Mr. J.J. Weir said that the larvae 

 of species hybernating in that state appeared regularly, no 

 matter how cold the nights were ; and Mr. F. W. Hawes 

 stated that he had collected larvae of E. ianira at dusk, and 

 they were invariably feeding with the head in an upward 

 direction. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Aplecta prasina. Fab. 

 [herbida, Hb.), bred during November and December, 1892 ; 

 the ova were obtained from a moth taken at Polegate during 

 the summer of that year. 



Mr. R. Waller exhibited a fine series of Smerinthus tilicB, 

 L., bred in the south of London ; and Mr. J, J. Weir drew 

 attention to one example which had a decided tendency to 

 melanism, and said it would be interesting to note if this 

 species would in the course of time become melanic in the 

 London district. 



