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Office scheme for establishing a rifle range in the New Forest, consisted for 

 the most part of full obituary notices of Fellows of the Society who had died 

 during the year, special mention being made of Mr. Henry W. Bates, 

 F.R.S., Professor Hermann C. C. Burmeister, M.D., Dr. Carl A. Dohrn, 

 Mr. H. Berkeley-Jaraes, Mr. J. T. Harris, Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.R.S., Mr. Howard Vaughan, and Pro- 

 fessor J. 0. Westwood, M.A., the Hon. Life President. A vote of thanks 

 to the President having been proposed by Lord Walsinghara, F.R.S., and 

 seconded by Mr. J. H. Leech, Mr. Godman replied. Dr. D. Sharp, 

 F.R.S., then proposed a vote of thanks to the Secretaries, Treasurer and 

 Librarian, which was seconded by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. Mr. 

 McLachlan, Mr. Goss and Canon Fowler then severally replied, and the 

 proceedings terminated. — H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 



Sooth London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 November Q.6th, 1899.-0. G. Barrett, F.E.S,, President, in the chair. 

 Mr. J. Jenuer Weir exhibited Pyrameis cardui, L., which he had received 

 from Lurimer County, Colorado, captured at an elevation of upwards of 

 7,000 ft., and remarked thereon. Mr. R. Adkin, Zygmia Jilipenclidm, L., 

 showing gradations of colour intermediate between the red and yellow 

 forms ; also Peronea 7'vfana, Schiff. and P. hastiana, L. Mr. F. W. 

 Frohawk, a bred series of Svierlnthus tillts, L., showing variation in extent 

 of markings and depth and iiue of colour, one specimen being very red. 

 Mr. R. South, malformed specimens of Lepidoptera, including Papilio 

 inachao7i, L., Melitaa athalia, Rott., Lycmia bella7'gus, Rott., L. icarus, 

 Tortrix picea7ia, L., and made some observations thereon. Mr. Dennis, a 

 very dark form of Vanessa cardui, L., and examples of Colias edusa, Fb., 

 bred from ova obtained in August. Mr. H. Williams, pupse of C. hyale, 

 L., reared by him from ova obtained from a captured female. Mr. Tug- 

 well, Dianthcecia barrettii, Dbl. Mr. Barrett, on behalf of Mr. Collins, of 

 Warrington, exhibited dark varieties of Acro7iycta leporina, L. 



December 8th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Frohawk, on behalf 

 of Mr. Merrifield, exhibited specimens of Pieris napi, L., Polyommatus 

 phlceas, L., and Vanessa atalaiita, L., the pupa having been subjected to 

 various temperatures. Some of the pupse of the last-named species, which 

 were subjected to a temperature of 45 deg. to 32 deg. for 47 days and then 

 from 6 to 94 days to a temperature of 90 deg. to 54 deg., produced some 

 aberrations, the cold having a tendency to break up the bands, to increase 

 the depth of ground colour, and to produce a suffusion of white scales. 

 Mr. Farren showed four aberrations of Papilio viachaon, L., a series of very 

 dark brown and black varieties of Chauliodus charophyllellus, Goze., and 

 some Nepticulae pinned with very fine silver pins, and put on strips of soft 

 pith. Mr. South, a specimen of Eriogaster lanesiris, L. (female), with 

 ova showing between the segments of the abdomen ; Mr. South and Mr. 

 Barrett were of opinion that the ova were showing through a transparent 

 membrane, but Mr. Jenner Weir said the ova appeared to have ruptured the 

 integument. Mr. Hawes, the two emergences of Pieris napi, L., both bred 

 from the same female ; also examples of the same species, the larvae having 

 been fed on different food-plants, and made some observations as to the 

 effects produced. Mr. Tutt, examples of several species of the genus Tcenio- 

 campa, which Dr. Chapman had extracted from the pupa-cases in some 

 cases as early as the 25th of October ; some remarks were made as to the 

 full development of these and other species which had hybernated as pupa. 



