90 ■ [April, 



Cr., and series of the selected brood originating from Yorkshire, for which he suggests 

 the name var. fasciata. A discussion ensued as to variation produced by artificial 

 selection. Mr. Jenner Weir, a new Euplceine butterfly from North-Eastern Borneo, 

 which he had described under the name of Caduga Croioleyi. Mr. Lewcock sent for 

 exhibition a box of Coleoptera to illustrate a paper he communicated describing his 

 observations during the various excursions of the Society. Mr. Mansbridge com- 

 municated a paper containing his observations in the United States, entitled, " Notes 

 from the Indian Territory." Remarks were made on the increase of Melanism in 

 insects, and a discussion ensued. 



March 8th, 1894.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. K. Adkin exhibited a series of JErebia Spiphron, Enoch, var. Cassiope, Fb., 

 from Inverness, which were said to be of the type form {Epiphron). He liad, 

 however, failed to detect the white pupil to the ocellated spots, which was the typical 

 character. Mr. Weir said that the British form had no trace of the white pupil. 

 Mr. Routledge, specimens of a brood of Selenia hilunaria, Esp., which had laid over 

 the summer of 1892, emerging in April, 1893 ; also individuals bred from a pair of 

 the latter, which had emerged at intervals from August, 1893, to February, 1894, 

 and were all of the small form, although some had the pigment well developed ; he 

 also brought a series of Aporophyla liitulenta, Bork., captured in Cumberland, among 

 which were both the var. sedi, Gn., and the var. lunehurgensis, Frr. Mr. South, 

 exceedingly large specimens of Ocneria dispar, L., one of which was bred about 

 thirty years ago from a larva taken in the Fens. Mr. Frohawk, a third brood of 

 Fararge Megcera, L.,ten males and ten females, bred by himself from ova deposited 

 on August 2nd, 1893. Mr. Billups, three species of rare Ichneumonidce, viz., Micro- 

 gaster russatus, Hal., taken at High Beach in 1884 ; Eyperacmus crassicornis, Gr., of 

 vrhich only one recorded British specimen was known, taken at Oxshott in 1892 ; 

 and Euryproctus nemoralis, Four., taken at the same place last July. Mr. Filer, a 

 series of Hybernia leucophearia, Schiff., taken at Eichmond and Epping, among 

 which were some exceptionally melanic forms. Mr. W. A. Pearce, specimens of 

 Attacus Luna, L., and atheroma regalis, F., from Wilkinsburg, U. S. A. Mr. 

 Jenner Weir, male and female Heteronympha Merope, Fab., and stated that the 

 sexes were so totally unlike as to be deemed different species until quite recently ; 

 he also mentioned that the chrysalis was said to be contained in a frail network on 

 the ground. Mr. Auld, on behalf of Dr. Knaggs, a working model of the Decoy 

 and Net described in the Entomologist, 1893, and a considerable discussion ensued. 

 — Hbney J, Ttjrnek, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : February 28^^,1894. — Colonel Chaeles 

 SwiNHOE, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Professor August Forel, M.D., of the University of Zurich, was elected an 

 Honorary Fellow of the Society, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late 

 Professor H. A. Hagen, M.D. Mr. John Pratt, of The Cedars, New Barnet, and 

 Mr. Michael Yeatman Woolf, of 1, Marlborough Terrace, St, John's Wood, N.W., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Gr. C. Champion called attention to a supposed new Longicorn beetle, 



