22 [January, 



(Ochtkebius Lejolisi) and its larva, a rat-tailed maggot resembling Erisfalis, and two 

 Chironomid larvse with the pupa and fly of one of them ; they lived in small salt 

 pools on the face of a cliif, about ten feet above high tide, the saltness of the water 

 varying greatly from time to time. Dr. Sharp, a small portion of the Collection of 

 Carabid(B made by Mr. Perkins in the Hawaiian Islands for a Committee of the 

 Eoyal Society and British Association ; 700 or 800 specimens, representing five or 

 six very closely allied forms, were shown. He stated that these forms were so ex- 

 tremely closely allied that it was reasonable to consider them as modifications of one 

 species that had undergone change in connection with difference of locality ; some 

 of the forms, however, were from the same island, so that it was not possible to 

 consider the geographical isolation as the immediate or sole cause of the distinctions. 

 — L. DoNCASTEE, Ho}i. Secretary. 



The Sottth London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 October 2Sth, 1897.— Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. B. Browne, B.A., of Hammersmith, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Montgomery exhibited a long bred series of Cidaria truncata (ru.isata) , the 

 parent was var. centumnotata, but none of those bred were of that form ; also a 

 bred series oi Acidalia dimidiata from July ova, and stated that some half dozen 

 larvse were not feeding up, and apparently intended to hibernate ; specimens of 

 Apamea ophiogramma bred from ova, and a Cidaria corylata which emerged at the 

 end of September. Mr. Newman, large 1st and 2nd broods of Arctia Caja, the 

 former from larvse taken round Darenth, the latter from ova, and reared in a green- 

 house. Considerable variation was shown, but only one of the more extreme dark 

 forms and one of the yellow hind-wing forms occurred ; a small very pale specimen 

 was the most unusual form ; also Odonestis fotatoria bred of varietal forms from 

 Darenth, Dry as Paphia with white patches, Argynnis Adippe, inci'ease of dark 

 markings, both from Groodwood, Epinephele Janira, two specimens with the usual 

 fulvous colour quite white from Singleton, and Smerinthus populi bred of a very pink 

 tinge. Mr. Tutt, on behalf of Dr. Eiding and Mr. Bacot, the long series of the 

 much debated Tephrosias, together with crosses, hybrids, mongrels, &c., and made 

 remarks upon the results of their experiments ; on behalf of Mr. Merrin, a long 

 series of vars. of Aglais urticcp., having an incipient silvery mark on the under-sides 

 of the fore-wings ; on behalf of Mr. Home, an almost completely black variety of 

 Nemeophila plantagrnis ; and on behalf of Mr. Griffith, a series of Tephrosias taken 

 in the Bristol Woods. Mr. Moore, a specimen of Enodia portlandica from North 

 America, and said that it did not seem right to place this species and E. hyperanthus 

 in the same genus ; and a specimen of Locusta viridissima with its eggs from 

 Chambery. Mr. Adkin, vars. of Argynnis Selene from Sutherlandshire, much duller 

 than usual, and with marginal spots large and pale. Mr. Merrifield, a very large 

 number of specimens bred under extremes of temperature, to illustrate his resume, 

 entitled, " Kecent Examples of the Effect on Lepidoptera of Extreme Temperatures 

 applied in the Pupal stage." 



November \lth, 1897. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a number of Psyche cases taken by Messrs. Edwards, Tunaley 

 and himself in the Forest of Fontainebleau, including Psyche unicolor {graminella) , 



