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aceris, var. infuscata, Haw. Mr. W. A. Pearce, some very beautiful Rhopalocera 

 from Alleghany, U. S. A., taten in 1893. Mr. Auld, Vanessa lo, whicli had been 

 cleaned by Dr. Enaggs with methylated ether, and which had regained its pristine 

 appearance. Mr. Tugwell sent for exhibition a long series of Spilosoma luiricepeda, 

 Esp., and its varieties and local races, especially of var. radiata, St., = zatima, Cr., 

 and communicated notes, in which he described the York city form as var. fasciata ; 

 he also sent for exhibition a pair of Plusia moneta, Eab., bred by Mr. Mathew ; 

 two varieties of Arctia villica, L., from Harwich ; three dark Irish forms of Agrotis 

 lucernea, L. ; a long geries of Liparis monacha, L., from New Forest ova, some of 

 which were very dark ; six of the dark Sheffield form of Boarmia repandata, L. ; 

 yars. of Lyccena Mgon, Schiff.,from Westmoreland ; four Dicranura bicuspis, Eork., 

 from Tilgate ; a series of CalUmorpha Hera, L., bred from Starcross ova ; a pair of 

 PacJietra leucophcea, View., taken by Mr. Hanbury on the North Downs, and others. 

 — Hy. J. TuEKEE, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London — Gist Annual Meeting : January 

 llth, 1894. — Mr. Feedeeio Meeeifield, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, showing a balance in the Society's 

 favour, having been read by Mr. Jenner Weir, one of the Auditors, the Secretary, 

 Mr. H. Gross, read the Report of the Council. It was then announced that the 

 following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council for 1894 : — President, 

 Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Eobert McLachlan, E.R.S. ; Secre- 

 taries, Mr. Herbert Goss, E.L.S., and the Eev. Canon Eowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; 

 Librarian, Mr. Greorge C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the Council, 

 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S., Mr. Charles J. Qahan, M.A., Mr. 

 Frederic Merrifield, Prof. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel Charles 

 Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. George H. Verrall, Mr. James J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., 

 and the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, LL.D., F.R.S. Mr. Merrifield then read 

 the President's Address. A vote of thanks to the President was proposed by 

 Colonel Swinhoe, seconded by Mr. Jenner Weir, and carried unanimously ; Mr. 

 Merrifield replied for the President. Lord Walsingham proposed a vote of thanks 

 to the Officers of the Society ; this was seconded by Mr. Waterhouse, and carried 

 unanimously. Mr. McLachlan and Mr. Goss replied, and the proceedings ter- 

 minated. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



NOTES ON THE EARLIER STAGES OF THE NEPTICUL2E, 

 WITH A VIEW TO THEIR BETTER RECOGNITION AT THIS PERIOD 



OF THEIR LIFE. 



BY JOHN H. WOOD, M. B. 



(Continued from page 4), 



The Venteal Maeks. — They are present under two forms, either 

 as a chain of narrow, spindle-shaped or almost linear marks down the 

 middle of the abdomen, or as large square-shaped and very conspicuous 

 spots which cover a large part of the ventral area. The two forms 

 represent two essentially difFercnt things, for the same conditions 



