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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



FEBR UA R V S>lh . 1 900. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited, and presented to the Society's 

 collections, male and female specimens of the local dragon- 

 fly Gomphus vulgatissimtis, taken by himself in the New 

 Forest. 



Mr. Montgomery exhibited a long series of Pieris rapce, 

 and a very long series of Chrysophantis phlcsas, and con- 

 tributed the following note : 



The specimens of Cphlceas were bred from four females 

 taken at Greenford, near Ealing, on August 5th. The}' 

 emerged continuously from September 13th to November 

 7th. The last of the parents died on August 31st, two days 

 after the first of the progeny spun up for pupation. Over 

 fifty per cent, of the ova produced imagines ; a large number 

 of the remaining larvae and pupae died of a fungoid disease, 

 and the balance of the larvae are hybernating about half 

 grown. 



" The first lot of P. rapce were bred from a ? received from 

 Enniskillen in the spring of 1898, and emerged (with the 

 exception of a pair in the summer of i8g8) in the spring of 

 i8gg. The next were all bred from Ealing parents, and 

 represented three emergencies, viz. spring, a partial summer, 

 and a very limited autumnal brood from summer parents." 



Mr. Carpenter remarked that bred specimens of C. phlceas 

 were, in his experience, often dark, except in years 

 when the summer was extremely hot. He stated that Mr. 

 Frohawk had bred several specimens with the red margins 

 of the hind wings absent. Mr. Tutt stated that there was a 

 well-known summer race found in the south of Europe 

 named var. eleus. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited 150 species (named) of Coleoptera 

 collected by Prof. W. S. Blatchley in Indiana, U.S.A., 

 also Calosoma Inxatwn (Say) from Utah, and an unidentified 

 species taken at an altitude of 14,000 feet on Mt. Orizaba, 



