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Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a long and variable series of bred SeJenia tetralunaria. 

 Mr. W. Gr. Blatcli exhibited the following Coleoptera from Bewdlcy, all being new 

 to that locality : — Perileiptus areolatiis, HomaJola longula, II. stthtilissima, Scopaus 



sp ? (same as the one taken at Ludlow, and exhibited on June 2nd), Thinohius 



longipennis, Calodera umbrosa, TrogophlcBus suhtilis, and Actidium concolor ; the 

 last two species being also new to the Midlands. Dr. P. B. Mason exhibited his 

 Icelandic insects, and made remarks on them ; he described the country, and the 

 difficulties, which are great, of collecting there ; he told all that had previously been 

 known of Icelandic Entomology ; and gave a complete list of the insects he had 

 taken there, together with many interesting facts about them. The most sti'iking 

 feature of this list is the entire absence of both the butterflies and the Orthoptera. 

 The list has been already published in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for July.— Colbran J. 

 Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Xatural History Society: 

 May 22)id, 1890.— J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. S. Edwards exhibited Lepidoptera from China and India, including ex- 

 amples of Papillo Nigarus, also Coleoptera belonging to the genus Sagra, from 

 Africa. Mr. Hawes, ova of Gonepteryx rhamni, L., and made some interesting 

 remarks on the way the eggs were deposited. Mr. Frohawk also showed a microsco- 

 pical drawing of the ova of the same species, and a coloured drawing of a small 

 plant of Buckthorn, about throe inches in size, upon which he had found seven ova. 

 Mr. Nussey exhibited living larvae of Qeometra papilionaria, L. Mr. C. Fenn, a 

 very long series of Sattirnia pavonia, L., reared from eggs obtained from a female 

 captured at Bournemouth ; the specimens were exceptionally large, and the males 

 very brilliantly coloured ; he also showed long series of both sexes of Spilosoma 

 mendica, Clerck, which he stated were i-eared by him from ova obtained from a 

 female taken at Eltham, the larvae being fed on the common broad-leaved plaintain ; 

 43 imagines were bred, 21 S and 22 $ . The females varied little from the ordinary 

 type, with one exception, which was curiously blotched with dark grey on the left 

 superior wing ; the males varied from the usual English type up to a dull pale 

 yellowish-grey, and quite 50 per cent, diverged more or less from the usual form. 

 The pupae had been exposed to the weather in a very cold and damp spot. Mr. R. 

 Adkin asked whether anything was known of the male parent, and whether the 

 female differed from the type. In answer, Mr. Fenn said he knew nothing of the 

 male, and there was nothing special about the female parent. Mr. Tutt pointed out 

 that the variation in the male was somewhat similar to the Irish form known as var. 

 rustica. Some observations were made by Messrs. South, Tutt, Carrington, Adkin, 

 and Fenn, on pupae of Lepidoptera lying over for two or more years. 



June \2th, 1890.— The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. B. G. Rye, of Putney, H. McArthur, of Brompton, and A. Ward, of 

 Brighton, were elected Members. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited Acronycta strigosa, bred from pupae received from 

 Cambridge, Nemeolius Liicina, L., bred from ova, and Etipithecia venosata, Fb., which 



