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November l^th, 1890.— W. H. Tugwell, Esq., in the Chair. 



Messrs. Gr. Champion, of St. John's Wood, A. J. Hodges, of Highbury, and A. 

 H. Hill, of Hampstead, were elected Members. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited Bryophila impar, Warren, from Cambridge, and a 

 specimen of B. muralis, Forst., from Folkestone, very similar to the examples of 

 impar. Mr. Tugwell, a long series of Cerastis raccinii, L., and of C. spadicea, Hb. 

 A discvission ensued as to this exhibit. Mr. R. Adkin, examples of Spilosoma men- 

 dica, Clerck, bred from ova obtained by the pairing of a female of the Irish form of 

 the species with a male of the English form ; from the ova obtained only two moths 

 emerged, both of which were males, which were neither like the English or Irish 

 form. Mr. Adkin also exhibited specimens of Peronea sponsana, Fb., from the New 

 Forest, and referred to his exhibit of this species in 1889, when nearly all of those 

 then shown were the variety ; this year he had endeavoured to obtain the species as 

 it occurred in the New Forest, and out of some twenty specimens there were only 

 four or five of the variety. Mr. Cockerell exhibited insects from the Wet Mountain 

 Valley, Colorado, to illustrate parallel variation \n Diptera and Hymenoptera ; series 

 1, green to blue ; series 2, yellow to red. Mr. Atkinson, a small collection of all 

 Orders from Africa. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: November hth, 1890. — The Eight Hon. 

 Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Francis H. Barclay, of Knott's Green, Leyton, Essex ; Miss M. Kimber, of 

 Cope Hall, Enborne, Berkshire ; and Mr. John E. Robson, of Hartlepool, were 

 elected Fellows. 



Lord Walsingham announced the death of Mr. Atkinson, of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited a number of Lepidoptera collected in June last near 

 Digne, Basses Alpes, including Papilio Alexanor ; Partiassius Apollo, larger and 

 paler than the Swiss form ; Anthocharis tagis, var. Bellezina ; Leucophasia iJupon- 

 cheli ; Thecla spini ; T.iUcis,\a.Y. cerri ; Lyccena argiades,v?iv. corretas ; L.Argus, 

 var. argyronomon ; L. beUargus, var. ceronus ; Melitaa Deione ; and Argynnis 

 Muphrosyne. 



Mr. W. E. Nicholson also exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera, formed near 

 Digne last June, which included very large specimens of Papilio Machaon ; P. 

 Podalirius ; Thais rumina, var. medesicaste, larger and redder than the Mediter- 

 ranean specimens; Apatura Ilia, var. Clyfie ; Argynnis Adippie, \ar. Cleodoxa ; 

 A. Daphne; Melanargia Oalatea, var. leucomelas ; Vanessa Egea, bred from 

 Pellitory ; Satyrus Semele, and many others. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited the upper and lower membranes of a wing of 

 a species of Attacus, which had been separated without moving the scales, and 

 mounted on glass so as to show the internal surfaces. He explained that he 

 separated the membranes first by inserting a needle in the vein at the base of the 

 wing, and when they were sufiiciently parted to be taken hold of, they were gradually 

 drawn asunder, and floated on water. 



