42 [February, 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History Society : 

 November 23rd, 1893. —J. Jenneb Weib, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited captured specimens of Argynnis Paphia from the 

 New Forest, one male and one female having a portion of the right primary with 

 a whitish ground, also a non-metallic intermediate var. Valezina. Mr. Frohawk, 

 specimens of A. Paphia and var. Valezina, which had emerged on November 20th 

 and 2l8t, having been kept at the ordinary temperature. He also reported having 

 bred Vanessa Atalanta this month, and that the Apatura Iris of Mr. Watson had 

 emerged, but was a cripple. A long discussion ensued regarding the second broods 

 of the ArgynnidcB. The general opinion being that temperature by itself had very 

 little influence. Mr. Sauze, Coleoptera taken by himself this year. Mr. Weir, 

 LyccBna trochilus, from the S. African Republic, sent by Dr. Rendall ; Lyccena 

 exilis, taken at Las Cruces by Prof. Cockerell ; and our British Lyccena minima for 

 comparison. Mr. Adkin, two specimens of Polyommatus Phlceas, in one the 

 copper band of the hind-wings was all but obliterated, and in the other represented 

 by narrow streaks on the wing rays. 



December \4:th, 1893. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited continental specimens of Argynnis Adippe, var. Cleodoxa, 

 and var. CMorodippe, both from S. Europe ; a variety of Thecla rubi from Ireland ; 

 also Syrichihiis malvee, var. taras, from Exeter, where it was stated to be not un- 

 common. Mr. Pearce, a long series of Chrysophanus hypophleas ; series of Colias 

 Philodice, with pale var. of the female ; Terias Nicippe, with yellow form of male ; 

 Pieris rapcE, and various species of Lycaenidcs ; all from Alleghany Co., U. S. A. ; 

 also Nathalis lole from Colorado ; Mr. Weir, Planema Euryta,&\\ Acrseine butterfly, 

 in which the sexes differed materially in colour, and still more in shape, yet in 

 each of these respects it was mimicked by the corresponding sexes of Pseudacrcea 

 Pirce, a Nymphaline species, all from the Cameroons. Mr. Turner, a long bred 

 series of Thera juniperata, arranged to show the varied interruption of the band 

 across the fore-wings. Mr. Billups, the rare Dipteron, Diastata basalis, from 

 Bromley, Kent, and hitherto unrecorded as British ; also the following species of 

 Ichneumonidm, bred by the menabers : Ichneumon fuscipes, bred from larvss of 

 Acronycta myricce, by Mr. Short ; Bhizarcha areolaris, from the Dipterous larvse of 

 Phytomyza aquilegicB, by himself ; Colas dispar, from larvae of Melitcea Aurinia, by 

 Mr. Frohawk; Ichneumon pyrrhopus from Eupithecia helveticaria, Olypta bicornis 

 from Tortrix palleana, Anomala cervinops from Meliothis dipsacea, and Lissonota 

 sulphurifera from Sesia scoliceform.is, all bred by Mr. Adkin. Mr. Adkin, a varied 

 series of Tceniocampa gothica from Kannoch ; also yellow varieties of Zygcena 

 trifolii from Cambridge. 



January Wth, 1894. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited several series of Thera juniperata, Jj., from various Scotch 

 localities, contrasting them with those from Purley. Mr. Oldham, varied series of 

 Hybernia defoliaria, L., H. aurantiaria, Esp., from Epping Forest, and a sjiecimen 

 of the local Libellula quadrimaculata, L., from Cambridgeshire. Mr. South, some 

 remarkable vars. of Cerastis vaccinii,'L., taken in Kent and Surrey, with British and 

 continental specimens and varieties of C. spadicea, Hb., and a specimen of Acronycta 



