l66 iriE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



weather for months. Search your record.' I have done so, and find that 

 for the last forty years the Admiral's remarks are correct." — J. Arklk ; 

 Chester. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Societt of London. — March Q.Qth, 1893. — Henry 

 John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Ernest 

 Swinhoe, of Avenue House, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 

 Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited, for Mr. A. E. Stearns, a living specimen of 

 a luminous species of PyropJiorus, which had been found in an orchid- 

 house at Dorking. It was supposed to have emerged from the roots of a 

 species of Cattleya from Colombia. Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited living full- 

 grown larvae of Charaxes jasius, found by Mr. Frederic Raine, at Hyeres, 

 feeeding on Arhutus unedo. Surgeon-Captain Manders exhibited a series 

 of Lycana theophrastus from Rawal Pindi, showing climatal variations, the 

 rainy-season form being of darker coloration, and larger than that occurring 

 in the dry season. The ground colour of the former on the under surface 

 was markedly white with deep black striae ; in the latter form the ground 

 colour was distinctly reddish, and the marking reduced to reddish lines. 

 He said that the latter form had been described as L. alteratus. Mr. F. 

 Merrifield mentioned that Dr. Weismann had now established that the 

 colouring of Chrysophanus phlaas m different climates or seasons, though 

 in part attributable to the actual temperature, was in part constitutional. 

 Mr. S. G. C. Russell exhibited a beautiful variety of Argynnis selene, taken 

 near Fleet, Hants ; two varieties of A. seletie from xlbbot's Wood, Sussex ; 

 typical specimens of A. selene and A . euphrosyne tor com^Sinson ; and a 

 remarkable variety of Pieris napi from Woking. Mr. C. J. Gahaa 

 exhibited a microscopic preparation of the antenna of a beetle [Ptero- 

 stichus), for the purpose of demonstrating the sensory nature of the so- 

 called " appendix " of the antenna. Since he wrote a note describing 

 this structure, a short time ago, he found that Professor Beauregard had 

 already suggested its sensory character, and was inclined to believe that it 

 was an auditory organ. Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of Tragus 

 lapidalor, Grav., believed to have been bred from a larva of Papilio 

 machaon taken in Norfolk by Major-General Carden. Mr. Goss stated 

 that he sent the specimen to the Rev. T. A. Marshall, who said it was a 

 well-known parasite of P. machaon on the Continent, but not proved to 

 exist in the United Kingdom. Mr. Merrifield said he knew this parasite, 

 and had bred several specimens of it from P. machaon received from 

 Spain. Colonel Swinhoe read a paper entitled " The Lepidoptera of the 

 Khasia Hills. Part I." A long and interesting discussion ensued, in 

 which Mr. Elwes, Mr. Hampson, Colonel Swinhoe and others took part. 

 Mr. W. Bartlett Calvert communicated a paper entitled "New Chilian 

 Lepidoptera." Mr. J. W. Shipp communicated a paper entitled " On a 

 New Species of the Genus Phalacrognathus." 



April I'Hth. — Frederic Merrifield, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Sir John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, Bart., exhibited a number of speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera, all caught or bred in 

 Glamorganshire. The Lepidoptera included two remarkable varieties of 

 Vanessa io, both obtained from the same brood of larvse, from which the 

 usual eye-like spots in the hind wings were absent ; varieties of Arctia 

 msnthastri ; a long series of melanic and other forms of Boarmia repandata 



