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larvae of Tcsniocampa munda, T. incerta, and T. instahilis. Mr. Tufct, ova of He- 

 pialus lupulinus, and said that under a glass they looked like little black sloes. Mr. 

 West, of Grreenwich, series of Trapezonotus agrestis and Tropistethus holosericeus, 

 obtained by shaking moss in Headley Lane. Mr. Shortridge Clarke gave an account 

 of a remarkable occurrence of thousands of larvae and imagines of Caradrina qua- 

 dripuncfa {cuhiculari.s) in a large hay store in the Isle of Man. — Ht. J. Ttjenee, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : ilay Uh, 1898. — Mr. R. Trimen, 

 F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Gr. Pallisee, of 6, Mount Park Road, Ealing, W., was elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



Colonel Yerbury exhibited a series of Diptera collected at Hyeres during March 

 and April, 1898, and including Brachypalpus valgus, Panz., Callicera Fagesii, Guer., 

 and a species of Platystoma which appeared to be undescribed. Mr. Barrett, aberrant 

 forms of British species of Lepidoptera from Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. 

 Mr. Waterhouse, two burnished golden beetles, Anoplognathus aureus from Queens- 

 land, and PLusiotis resplendens from Panama, which he stated to be interesting 

 examples of a similar result being attained by a process of natural selection in two 

 species of the same family in widely separated localities ; many members of the 

 family had a slight tendency to show metallic colours. It would be interesting to 

 ascertain whether there were any similarity in their surroundings in the two 

 countries which would make this golden appearance an advantage, or whether it 

 might be considered a " warning colour." Allied species, however, appeared to be 

 edible. Mr. Walker, specimens of the rare PMlonthtis fuscus, Urav., found in the 

 Cossws-eaten poplar in Chatham Dockyard at the end of April. Mr. R. McLaehlan 

 communicated a paper on " Neuroptera-Planipennia taken by the Rev. A. E. Eaton 

 in Algeria." 



June 1st, 1898. — The President in the Chair. 



Prof. B. Grassi, M. Hippolyte Lucas, and Dr. August Weismann were elected 

 Honorary Fellows. Mr. C. H. A. Brooke, of 67, Holland Park Avenue, Kensington, 

 W. ; and Mr. G. B. Dixon, of St. Peter's Road, Leicester, were elected Ordinary 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. P. B. Mason exhibited a specimen of the rare Lathridius filum found in 

 his own herbarium. It had been previously taken at Edinburgh by McNab, and he 

 understood that an example had been found in a sealed envelope containing Mar- 

 chantia from Franz Josef Land. Mr. J. J. Walker, a singular blue variety of 

 Carahus monilis, Fabr., resembling in colour C. intricatus, and taken at Iwade, 

 Kent, in flood-rubbish in May. Mr. F. Merrifield forwarded for exhibition from 

 Riva on the Lago di Garda larvae of the " Corsican form," var. ichnusa, of Aglais 

 urticce. Mr. G. C. Champion called attention to Mr. A. Somerville's recently- 

 publislied sheet of the County and Yice-County divisions of the British Isles for 

 biological purposes, and a discussion ensued thereon. Papers were communicated 

 by Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., on "The Moths of the Lesser Antilles," and by Mr. 

 J. H. Leech on " Lepido ptera-lleterocera from Northern China, Japan, and Korea." 

 — W. F. H. Blandfoed, Hon. Secretary. 



