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described and figured by Herr A. F. Nonfried, of Eatonitz, Bohemia, under the 

 name of Callipogon Friedldnderi, in the Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 22. He said 

 that the supposed characters of the insect were due to the fact that the head had 

 been gummed on upside down ! He also exhibited an extensive collection of 

 Coleoptera and Semiptera-Reteroptera made by himself in the Island of Corsica in 

 June last. 



The Rev. Theodore Wood exhibited a variety of Saturnia carpini, with semi- 

 transparent wings, a large proportion of the scales being apparently absent, bred 

 with several examples of the type-form at Baldock, Herts ; also a pale variety of 

 Smerinthus populi, which was said to have been bred, with several similar specimens, 

 from larvflB marked with rows of red spots on both sides. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a variety of Argynnis Aglaia, approaching the form 

 known as var. Charlotta, and a variety of Euchelia jacohcece, in which the crimson 

 costal streak was continued along the outer margin almost to the inner margin, taken 

 by Mr. Fowler at Ringwood, Hants, in 1893 ; a variety of Argynnis Euphrosyne, 

 taken by Mr. Mead in Epping Forest in 1893 ; and a series of black and other forms 

 of Phigalia pedaria, bred during the present year from a black female captured last 

 spring by Mr. Rose, of Barnsley. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. C. B. Taylor, of Jamaica, a beautifully coloured 

 drawing of the larva of Papilio Homerus, Fab. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited drawings showing the complete life-history of 

 Argynnis Aglaia and A. Adippe, every stage being figured ; also enlarged drawings 

 of the segments of the larvae in their first and last stages, showing the remarkable 

 difference in structure. Mr. Merrifield commented on the beauty of the drawings. 



Mr. Gr. C. Champion read a paper, entitled, " On the Tenehrionidm collected in 

 Australia and Tasmania by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., during the voyage of H.M. Ship 

 * Penguin,' with descriptions of new genera and species ;" and he exhibited the 

 specimens comprised in the collection. Mr. J. J. Walker and Colonel Swinhoe made 

 some remarks on the paper. 



Mr. Champion also read a paper, entitled, " An Entomological Excursion to 

 Corsica," in which he described an expedition to the mountains of that island in 

 June, 1893, in company with Mr. R. S. Standen, Mr. A. H. Jones, Colonel Yerbury, 

 R.A., Mr. Lemann, Mr. Raine, and others. Mr. Osbert Salvin, Colonel Yerbury, 

 and Colonel Swinhoe took part in the discussion which ensued. 



Mr. Edward Saunders communicated a paper, entitled, " A List of Hemiptera- 

 Seteroptera collected by Mr. Champion in Corsica, with a description of one new 

 species." 



Mr. W. F. Kirby read a paper, entitled, " Notes on Dorydium Westwoodi, 

 Buchanan White, with observations on the use of the name Dorydium." 



Mr. Charles B. Taylor communicated a papei", entitled, " Description of the 

 Larva and Pupa of Papilio Homerus, Fab." — H. Gross, Ron. Secretary. 



March I4th, 1894.— Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. William Bateson, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; Mr. H. 

 Caracciolo, of Port of Spain, Trinidad ; Mr. G-. C. Dudgeon, of 53, Montagu Square, 



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