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Reid, of Pitcaple, a long series of Tceniocampa gothica, the result of breeding from 

 selected parents through some four generations, and read notes on the variation ; a 

 very distinct form of variation of Abraxas grossulariata, in which the black 

 markings were absent from the central areas of all the wings, the discoidal marks 

 only being present; a series of Melanthia hicolorata, v. plumheolata ; and very fine 

 examples of Pachnobia hyperborea (alpina) from Perthshire. Mr. Lucas, speci- 

 mens of five of the less common species of British Dragonflies, viz., Sympetrum 

 sanguineum and Libellula fulva from Sandwich, Kent ; <S. Jlaveolum and Mschna 

 mixta from Ockham Common ; and Agrion mercuriale from the New Forest. 

 Mr. Tutt, a large number of Zonosoma annulata {o micron aria), bred by Dr. Riding 

 from selected parents, to show the hereditary nature of the absence of the annulus ; 

 some 75 °/o of the imagines bred were without the annulus on the fore-wings. 

 The President, for Mr. Thornhill, a curiously marked specimen of Euchloe car- 

 damities from Cambridge, having two wings curiously clouded with black ; and, 

 for Mr. Manger, a box of insects of all Orders, captured at sea, among which 

 were Deilephila livornica, Choerocampa celerio, Macroglossa stellatarum, Patula 

 macrops, Abraxas perampla, and Acridium peregrinum. Mr. Dolman, a wonderful 

 specimen of Abraxas grossulariata, taken on a tree trunk by a boy, in which the 

 black markings were normal, but the ground colour of a uniform deep orange ; 

 and ova of Aporia eratcegi from Dover. Mr. Hall, several specimens of an ant 

 found in the burrows of Sesia sphegiformis. Mr. West, of G-reenwich, bred speci- 

 mens of Podisus Itiridiis and Gonocerus venator, both from Box Hill. Mr. Turner, 

 a bred series of Porthesia chrysorrhcea from North Kent larvae, and a larva of 

 Dicranura bifida. Mr. Dennis, the ova of Thecla w-album under the microscope. — 

 Ht. J. TiTENER, Ron. Seo. 



Entomological Society of London : October 5th, 1898. — Mr. R. Teimen, 

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



Mr. T. B. Fletcher, of H.M.S. "Centurion," China Station ; Mr. Claude Fuller, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, Cape Town ; Mr. Alexander Greenshields, of 38, 

 Blenheim Gardens, Willesden, N.W. ; and Mr. Oliver J. Janson, of Cestria, Clare- 

 mont Road, Highgate, N. ; were elected Fellows ; and Mr. John W. Downing, of 

 45, Trevelyan Road, Tooting Graveney, S.W., was re-elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The President announced, with deep regret, the deaths of Mr. Osbert Salvin, 

 F.R.S., a Member of the Council ; and of Dr. E. Candeze, a Fellow of the Society, 

 which had taken place since the previous meeting. The President also announced 

 that the late Mrs. Stainton had bequeathed to the Society such entomological works 

 from her husband's library as were not already in its possession. This bequest was 

 of great importance, and would add over 500 volumes or pamphlets to the library, 

 many of which, formerly in the library of J. P. Stephens, were old and now scarce. 

 Among the more important additions were copies of Clerck's " Icones insectorum 

 rariorura," Say's " American Entomology " (1817) — a work of extreme rarity, Goeze's 

 " Entomologische Beytrago " — complete, Donovan's " Insects of New Holland," 

 Linnseus's " Systema Natiiraj," ed. x, Godart and Duponchel's " Le'pidopteres de 



