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The following is a list of the Officers and Council for 

 1894 :— 



President. — Mr. E. Step. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., 

 etc., and Mr. Chas. G. Barrett, F.E.S. 



Treasurer. — Mr. Robt. Adkin, F.E.S. 



Librarian and Report Secretary. — Mr. H. J. Turner, F.E.S. 



Gen. Secretary. — Mr. S. Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., etc. 



Curator. — Mr. W. West (Greenwich). 



Council. — Messrs. T. R. Billups, F.E.S., C. A. Briggs, 

 F.E.S., J. H. Carpenter, F. E. Filer, F. W. Frohawk, 

 F.E.S., J. Henderson, and R. South, F.E.S. 



In vacating the chair, Mr. Weir presented a handsome 

 album to the Society, in which he had placed three photo- 

 graphs of himself — one taken quite recently, the others at 

 earlier periods of his life — and said he hoped that all present 

 and past members, especially those who had held office, 

 would contribute their portraits, as such a collection would, 

 in the future, probably be of great interest and value. 



FEBRUARY Wi, 1894. 

 E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited a series o{ Xylophasia vionoglypha, 

 Hufn. {polyodon, L.), from Aberdeen, comprising the dark 

 and intermediate forms ; also a specimen of Agrotis, which 

 Mr. Home said was A. cursoria, Bork., but which was not 

 distinguishable from one form of ^. tritici, L. Mr. McArthur, 

 however, stated that that form oi A. tritici wd^s never found 

 in Aberdeen, and that the specimen was undoubtedly A. 

 cursoria, Bork. 



Mr. W.^F. Warne read a short paper, entitled "A Morning's 

 Sport near Rockhampton, Queensland" (p. 118), and ex- 

 hibited examples of the species referred to. 



Mr. W. A. Pearce exhibited series of the following species 

 taken by himself in Alleghany, U.S.A., during 1892 and 

 1893: — Pyranieis atalanta, L., P. huntera, Fab., Vanessa 

 antiopa, L., Polygonia interrogationis, Fab., the two broods of 

 P. comma, Harr., Telea polyphemus, L., and Samia cecropia, 

 L., the last two being bred. Mr. Carrington said that his 

 experience of V. antiopa was that it occurred singly at con- 

 siderable distances apart, and he remarked how curious it 



