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hovering in the road opposite his house at Sutton, a male. Mr. A. H. Martineau, 

 a set of specimens illustrating the life history of Andrena cineraria, L., larvae, young 

 and full-fed, pupa, pupal skin, cells, male and female. Mr. P. W. Abbott, a series 

 of Bryophila glandifera from Devon, one very beautiful specimen being of a much 

 richer and more beautiful green than usual, with the markings less sharply defined ; 

 also a Lyccena Mgon, ^ ,with the red marks absent from right upper wing, and blue 

 shadings over them all ; and a L. hellargus, $ , also shot with blue, both from 

 Midhurst, Sussex. Mr. Or. T. Bethune-Baker showed two drawers from his col- 

 lection, containing a portion of the genus Colias, and including many rare species. 

 — CoiBEAN J. Wainweight, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomoloq-ical Society op London : February 2nd, 1898. — Mr. G. H. 

 VeeealIi, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. L. C. Chawner, of Forest Bank, Lyndhurst ; Mr. F. A. Heron, B.A., of 

 the British Museum (Natural History) ; Mr. Henry Stebbing, of The Shawe, Jarvis 

 Brook, Tunbridge Wells ; and Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp, of Saxholme, Hoylake, 

 Cheshire ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



A letter was read from the Secretaries of the International Congress of Zoology, 

 calling attention to the meeting to be commenced at Cambridge on August 23rd, 

 and extending to the Fellows of the Society the cordial invitation of the Executive 

 Committee to be present. The Secretary also read a letter from Mr. A. D. Michael, 

 F.L.S., of 9, Cadogan Mansions, S.W., asking if any entomologists, who might find 

 insects attacked by mites {Acari) among their disused boxes, would be willing to 

 send him such insects, with the mites still on them or accompanying them, or at 

 least, the mites themselves, with the name of the insect given in all cases, for the 

 purpose of his forthcoming monograph of the Tyroglyphidce. Mr. J. W. Tutt 

 showed a fine series of forms of Hemerophila ahruptaria, Thunb., captured and bred 

 by Mr. W. S. Pearce at Holloway, varying from the normal colour, through 

 mahogany-brown to dark umbreous, some of the specimens of the second brood 

 showing a purplish hue. One gynandromorphous example was shown, with the 

 wings and right antenna of the female type, the left antenna being strongly pecti- 

 nated. He also exhibited two specimens of Dianthoecia luteago, bred by the Kev. 

 F. Lowe, from larvae obtained in Guernsey, and of a very distinct character, having 

 a tendency to the ochreous coloration of the type-form, but being differently marked. 

 On behalf of Mr. Heyne, Mr. Jacoby exhibited a series of temperature-varieties of 

 Lepidoptera. Mr. G. H. Carpenter read a paper by himself and the Eev. W. F. 

 Johnson on " The Larva of Pelophila iorealis," describing its structure and life 

 history. On the larval characters the genus, hitherto considered as of doubtful 

 relationship, was regarded as being closely allied to Elaphrus. Papers were com- 

 municated by Mr. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., and Mr. O. Salvin, F.R.S., on " New 

 Species of American Rhopalocera," and by Mr. M. Jacoby, " On some Phytophagous 

 Coleoptera (Eumolpidce) from the Islands of Mauritius and Eeunion." — W. F. H. 

 Blandfoed and F. Mekeifield, Hon. Sees. 



