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and Tephrosia crepuscular ia ; and l)leached forms of Geometra papilio- 

 naria. The Coleoptem included specimens of Prio)ius coriarius, Pyrochroa 

 coccinea, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, and Astynomus aidilis, which latter species 

 Sir John Llewelyn stated had been handed to him by colliers, who obtained 

 them from the wooden props used in the coal mines, made out of timber 

 imported from the Baltic. Mr. Merrifield, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Bower, and 

 Mr. Stevens made some remarks on the specimens. Sir John T. D. 

 Llewelyn enquired whether the name of the moth, which had a sufficiently 

 long proboscis to fertilize the large Madagascan species of Orchis, 

 Anfjracum sesquipedale, was known. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated that 

 the collections received at the British Museum from Madagascar had been 

 examined with the view to the discovery of the species, but up to the 

 present it had not been identified. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. Frank 

 W. P. Dennis, of Bahia, Brazil, several nests of trap-door spiders con- 

 taining living specimens of the spider, and read a communication from 

 Mr. Dennis on the subject. Several photographs of the nests and the 

 spiders were also exhibited. It was stated that Mr. Dennis had found 

 these nests at Bahia in one spot only in a cocoa-nut grove close by the sea. 

 Mr. McLachlan read a paper entitled " On species of Chrysopa observed 

 in the Eastern Pyrenees ; together with descriptions of, and notes on, new 

 or little-known Palsearctic forms of the genus." The author stated that the 

 species referred to in this paper had been observed by him in the Eastern 

 Pyrenees, in July, 1886, when staying with Mons. Rene Oberthiir. After 

 alluding to the nature of the district, and its capabilities from an entomo- 

 logical point of view, the paper concluded with descriptions of certain new 

 palsearctic species of the genus. Dr. Sharp, who said that he was 

 acquainted with the district, and Mr. Merrifield made some remarks on the 

 paper. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



South London Entomological and Natueal History Society. — 

 March 23r(i, 1893. — J. Jenuer Weir, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. R. Adkin exhibited the following species of Diurni from Sutherland- 

 shire, N.B., viz., Pieris hrassica, L., P. raptB, L., and P. napi, L. ; Argyymis 

 selene, SchifF., A. eiiphrosyne, L., and A. aglaia, L. ; Epinephele jaaira, L. ; 

 Ccenonympha typlion, Rott. ; and Thecla rubi, L. ; and commented on the 

 similarity of the forms shown to those occurring in the South of England. 

 He noticed, however, in the C. typlion, that although there was considerable 

 variation in the colour, in none were the dots on the hind wings prominent 

 as in many of the Rannoch specimens. The specimens of A. selene and 

 A. euphrosyne shown were so remarkably alike as to render it extremely 

 difficult to distinguish with certainty the one species from the other. Mr. 

 H. Moore exhibited a striking example of fasciation in the young wood of 

 Salix capraa ; also an example of the tranference of the scales to paper 

 of an Indian butterfly of the Nymphaline group. Mr. W. Mansbridge 

 stated that the specimen he previously exhibited as Hybernia defoUarla, 

 Clerck., was a melanic form of H. aurantiaria, Esp., Mr. A. W. Dennis 

 having drawn his attention to the fact. Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a 

 drawing of the antenna of these two species, showing the difference 

 existing ; also dark Odontopera bidentata, Clerck., from Forres, N.B. ; a 

 strikingly light specimen of Hybernia leucophcearia, Schiff. ; and a series 

 of Polia chi, L., var. suffusa, from Horsforth, near Leeds, darker than 

 those from either Bradford or Huddersfield, and therein difi"ering from Mr. 

 Tutt's experience as previously expressed. Mr. H. A. Auid exhibited a 

 species of Cassida from Fort White, Upper Burmah. Mr. T. W. Hall 



