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Other exhibits by Messrs. G. W. Wynn, E. C. Tye, A. H. Martineau, 

 P. W. Abbott, J. W. Neville, aud C. J. Wainwright. 



February 2nd. — Animal Meeting.— Mr. W. C. Blatch, President, in the 

 chair. The Secretary read the Annual Report, which showed the Society 

 to be in a satisfactory position. The Treasurer presented his Financial 

 Statement, showing a slight balance in hand. Votes of thanks were 

 passed to the ofEicers for their services during the past year, and the 

 following were elected for the ensuing year : — President, Mr. W. C. 

 Blatch ; Vice-President, the Rev. C. F. Thornewill ; Treasurer, Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley; Secretary, Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright; Librarian, Mr. A. 

 Johnson; Auditors", Mr. H. Stone and Mr. A. "S. Wainwright. Messrs. 

 P. W. Abbott and A. H. Martineau were elected as remaining members of 

 the Council. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



[The Secretary will be glad to hear from any entomologists in the 

 Midlands, not now members of the Society. The Society meets on the 

 first and third Monday in each month, at 8 p,m., at the Medical Institute, 

 Edmund Street, Birmingham.] 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — January 22nd, 1891. W. H. Tugwell, Vice-President, in the chair 

 Mr. J. C. Dacie, of Putney, was elected a member. Mr. South 

 exhibited specimens of what he thought to be a new species of Miana, the 

 examples which had been until lately in his cabinet as M. strigilis, Clerck., 

 were taken with others in North Devon. Mr. South read notes relative to 

 his exhibit. Mr. Tugwell remarked that an examination of a larger 

 number of specimens would be necessary before coming to any conclusion 

 as to whether those now shown were a new species or only strongly 

 divergent forms of M, strigilis. Mr. J. A. Clark, a variety of Arctia caia, 

 L., in which almost all the white of the superior wings was replaced by 

 brown colour. Mr. Short, specimens of Polyommatus phlceas, L., approach- 

 ing the variety schnidtii, Gerh. Mr. Tugwell, Hepialus velleda, Hb., from 

 Paisley, showing considerable variation in colour and size. It was 

 mentioned that this species occurred at Darenth Wood and Folkestone, 

 Kent ; and at Sutton and Box Hill, Surrey. Mr. Tutt, specimens of 

 Miana received from Ireland, which he contended were intermediate 

 between M. strigilis and M. fasciuncula, and remarked that he and Mr. At- 

 more had that afternoon examined his series, consisting of one hundred 

 and seventy of the one species and eighty of the other ; and that they had 

 been unable to find a single typical point of difference between the two, 

 either in the stigma or the transverse lines ; and as to the dorsal tufts, 

 these were common to both species. In the discussion that followed, 

 Messrs. South, Tugwell, Adkiu, Fenn, Hall, and others took part. Mr, 

 Billups exhibited Sericomyia horealis, Ten., and the rarer species S. lap- 

 pona, L., Chilosia cestracea, L., Arctophila nussitans, F., Eristalis utri- 

 carius, L., and Volucella bombylans, L., with very dark varieties of the 

 same, all taken in Aberdeenshire last season. A communication from the 

 President was read by the Secretary. The Treasurer submitted his balance- 

 sheet, showing a balance to the Society's credit of £71 17s. 9d. The 

 Secretary read the Council's report for 1890, from which it appeared that 

 32 members had been elected during the year, making a total membership 

 of 2'i2. The election of officers was next proceeded with, and resulted as 

 follows :— Mr. W. H. Tugwell, President; Mr. J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S,, 



