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and making special mention of those of Edwards and Scudder in America, 

 of Romanoff in Russia, of the Oberthiirs in France, and of Godman and 

 Salvin in England, the President referred to Mr. Moore's courageous under- 

 taking in commencing his ' Lepidoptera Indica,' on the lines adopted in 

 his 'Lepidoptera of Ceylon.' Attention was then called to the unusual de- 

 velopment during the past year of the study of those problems which have 

 been the object of the researches of Darwin, Wallace, Weissmann, Meldola, 

 Poulton, and others, and to the special and increasing literature of the 

 subject. In this connection allusion was made to Mr. Tutt's ' Entomo- 

 logist's Record and Journal of Variation,' to Mr. Poulton 's valuable book 

 ' On the meaning and use of the Colours of Animals,' and to the interest- 

 ing and important papers and experiments of Mr. F. Merrifield on the 

 subject of the variation in Lepidoptera caused by differences of tempera- 

 ture. After alluding to the International Zoological Congress held at Paris 

 during the past year, and to the rules of nomenclature which had been once 

 more reviewed and revised, the President concluded by referring to the 

 losses by death during the year of several Fellows of the Society and other 

 Entomologists, special mention being made of Mr. E. T. Atkinson, Mr. 

 J. S. Baly, Mens. I'Abbe de Marseul, Mr. Owen Wilson, Mons. Lucien 

 Buquet, Mons. Eugene Desmarest, Prof. Heinrich Frey, Dr. R. C. R. 

 Jordan, Mr. W. S. Dallas, Dr. L. W. Schaufuss, Dr. Hermann Dewitz, 

 Mons. Louis Reiche, and Herr Peter Maassen. A vote of thanks to the 

 President for his services during the year and for his address was proposed 

 by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., seconded by Mr. M'Lachlan, F.R.S., and carried. 

 Mr. M'Lachlan then proposed a vote of thanks to the other Officers of the 

 Society, which was seconded by Mr. S. Stevens, and carried. Lord 

 Walsingham, Mr. Goss, and Mr. Grut replied. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomologhcal and Natueal History Society. 

 — Jan. Sth, 1891. — W. H. Tugwell, Vice-President, in the chair. Messrs. 

 H. WilUams, of Horusey ; and T. J. Washford, of Dulwich, were elected 

 members. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Boarmia repandata, L., bred from ova 

 obtained from a moth taken at Westerham. During hybernation the larvae 

 were divided into two equal lots, one kept on growing privet, the other on grow- 

 ing birch. Although each lot produced some few individuals varying from 

 the majority, there was no marked difference between the bulk of the one 

 lot and the other. Mr. Adkin also exhibited Retinia buoliana, Schiff., and 

 E. pinicolana, Dbl., bred from larvae collected in the neighbourhood of 

 Poole, the New Forest, and Surrey. Those from Poole and the New 

 Forest emerged between June 26th and July 27th, and were all buo- 

 liana; those from Surrey emerged between July 12th and August 3rd; 

 from July 12th to 22nd, all buoliana; from July 25th to August 3rd, all 

 pinicolana, with the exception of one buoliana bred on July 27th. Mr. 

 Tugwell exhibited two series of Miana striyilis, St., and M. fasciuncula, 

 Haw., and referred to the statement recently made by Mr. Tutt, that these 

 two species were only forms of one, he having received specimens which 

 were intermediate between the two from the Rev. W. F. Johnson, of 

 Armagh. Mr. Tugwell said this statement had considerably surprised him, 

 and he at some length pointed out what he considered were the differences 

 between the two. He also referred to the published descriptions of the 

 larvse respectively made by Newman and Buckley. Mr. Fenn remarked 

 that he did not think Newman's descriptions of the larvse were very 



