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Annual Meeting, January 2oth, 1893. —J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Twenty-First Annual Meeting was held at the Society's Rooms, Hibernia 

 Chambers, London Bridge. Tlie Eeports of the Council and Treasurer were adopted. 

 The following gentlemen were then unanimously elected to fill the undermentioned 

 offices for the ensuing year: — President, E. Step ; Vice-Presidents, J. Jenner Weir, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., &c., and Chas. Q. Barrett, F.E.S. ; Treasurer, Eobt. Adkin, 

 F.E.S., 4, Lingarda Eoad, Lewisham, S.E. ; Librarian and Reporting Secretary, 

 H. J. Turner, F.E.S., 13, Drakefell Road, Hateham, S.E. ; Corresponding Secretary, 

 S. Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S.,&c., Kidbrook Lodge, Blacklieath, S.E. ; Curator, 

 W. West, 8, Morden Hill, Lewisham Road, S.E. ; Council, 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. Hen- 

 derson, and R. South, F.E.S, Mr. J. J. Weir, the retiring President, before delivering 

 his Annual Address, presented a handsome Album to the Society, containing three 

 of his photographs at different ages, and said he hoped that all the Members would 

 contribute their own photos, as such a collection would in the future probably possess 

 great historical value and interest. Votes of thanks to all the Officers for their 

 services during the past year brought the proceedings to a close. — H. Williams, 

 Son. Secretary. 



February 8th, 1894. — E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited Xylophasia monoglypha, Hufn. (polyodon, L.), both 

 the dark and intermediate forms ; also a form of Agrotis cursoria, Bork., not dis- 

 tinguishable from a southern form of A. tritici, all from Aberdeen. Mr. W. F. 

 Warne, a case of nearly two dozen species of Rhopalocera taken near Rockhampton 

 in Queensland, representing one morning's captures ; they included Anosia Plexippus 

 and Deiopeia pulchella. Mr. W. A. Pearoe, series taken by himself in Alleghany, 

 TJ. S. A., during 1893—3, of Pyrameis Atalanta, L , P. Huntera, Fab., Vanessa 

 Antiopa, L., Polygonia interrogationis. Fab., P. comma, Harr. (the two broods), and 

 bred series of Telea Polyphemus, L., and Samia Cecropia, L. : a discussion ensued 

 as to the singularity of a species like V. Antiopa being gregarious in the larval 

 stage, while the imagines were seldom met with in company. Mr. R. Adkin, ex- 

 amples of Cramhus ericellus, Hb., C. dumetellus, Hb., C. pratellus, L., C. myellus, 

 Hb., C. pinellus, L., Cfurcatellus, Zett., and C. margaritellus, 'Rh.,a:nd pointed out 

 characters by which the closely allied species might be easily separated. Mr. Dennis, 

 a specimen of Vanessa To, L., with a small additional ocellus on each secondary, 

 while below the central costal blotch on the primaries was a smaller dark blotch. 

 Mr. H. Williams, specimens of Pieris brassicce, L., curiously tinted from contact 

 with liquid ammonia. Mr. J. Jenner Weir, on behalf of Mr. Adye, a specimen of 

 Plusia moneta, Fabr., taken at Cliristchurch in 1893, and a nearly black specimen of 

 Venilia macularia, L., from the New Forest ; also, on behalf of himself, Eucheira 

 socialis, Westw., perhaps the most archaic form of the Pierine sub-family extant, 

 and contributed notes. Mr. Frohawk, a bred series of Argyunis Euphrosyne, L., 

 which were nearly eleven months in the larval stage. Mr. Billups, on behalf of Mr. 

 Sauze, a large number of Diptera captured in 1893. Mr. Manger, an example of a 

 land crab i^Ocypoda cursor) from Lagos, which was so nimble as only to be obtained 



by shooting it. — Henry J. Turner, Ilun. Secretary. 



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