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was conducted by Mr. John T. Carrington. A list of the Coleoptera, com- 

 piled by Mr. Lewcock, was also read. Mr, Tugwell communicated notes on 

 a botanical ramble from Leatberhead, over Micklebam Downs, to Dorking, 

 illustrating his remarks by examples of the plants collected, and referring 

 to the larvee of the Lepidoptera which were to be found feeding on them. 



July Qth, 1891. — The President in the chair. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited, 

 on behalf of Mr. E. Sabine, of Erith, a series of Lycana icarus, Eott., 

 collected at Snodland during the spring, and showing great variation ; 

 some of the males closely approached the colour of L. bellargus, Eott. ; in 

 one, the marginal black dots extended into the fringes ; in one of the speci- 

 mens the under side was of a smoky grey colour, the white rings of the ocelli 

 being absent. Among the females were many blue forms, and in the 

 under sides of many there was considerable variation. Mr. Adkin also 

 exhibited living larvae of EucUdia glyphica, L., reared upon white clover. 

 Mr. Oldham, a light form of Argynnis euphrosyne, L., a yellow variety of 

 Pieris rapcB, L., and a dark variety of P. ncipi, L. Mr. C. A. Briggs, a few 

 melanic specimens of Sphinx ligustri, L., from the London district. Mr. 

 Tugwell, Se&ia sp)hegiformis, Fabr., and stems, showing position of pupae in 

 situ, from Tilgate Forest, and made some observations thereon. Some 

 remarks were made by members as to varieties being mobbed by typical 

 forms of the species. The Rev. J. W. Horsley, of Woolwich, exhibited and 

 remarked on a series of shells, those of Helix nemoralis and H. hortensis in 

 almost every variety of banding and colouring. He had made a list of 89 

 band varieties. — H. W. Barkee, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



George Perry Shearwood died 7th July, 1891, aged 62. The 

 earlier portion of his lite was spent in India, where he for some years 

 carried on a successful business, from which he obtained a considerable com- 

 petency, and retired to this country at a comparatively early age. It was 

 while in India that he contracted a taste for Natural History, and com- 

 menced collecting such objects as they came in his way. On returning 

 home his attention was devoted chiefly to ferns, of which he at one time 

 had a very large number of living examples, and Lepidoptera, to which he 

 gave a large share of his leisure, the British species being his especial 

 favourites, and of these he amassed a very considerable and fairly complete 

 collection. He also took great interest in rearing and preserving the larvae 

 of Lepidoptera : a rare or little-known species in its larval state being one 

 of his great delights. By those who knew him in the field will his loss be 

 most felt, his genial nature and utter disregard of fatigue rendering him a 

 most agreeable companion. He thoroughly enjoyed an expedition in quest 

 of some pet species, and it was on one of these occasions that he met with 

 an accident that incapacitated him for some time from active work. Having 

 lingered too long in quest of Erastria venustula, which he had been seeking 

 in the Horsham district, and thus missed the last passenger train by which 

 he might reach home, he sought other means of accomplishing the journey 

 before resorting to the extremity of a forty miles' walk. This presented 

 itself in the form of a friendly driver of a goods train, who eventually 

 deposited him, in the small hours of the morning, on the line some distance 



