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interest ; but the Aculeata were always his favourite group, and he soon became 

 as well known among those interested in the " Neglected Orders " as he already 

 was among Lepidopterists. He married in 1875 Elizabeth, younger daughter 

 of James Netherwood Dixon, who predeceased him in 1914. Of the four 

 children, three survive him, two of the sons being active entomologists 

 whose names are familiar to the readers of this Magazine. Harwood was 

 responsible for the Insect Section of the " Victoria History of Essex," the 

 bulk of the records, apart from Lepidoptera, being of species taken in the 

 Colchester district, the High Woods in that neighbourhood, once famous for 

 their luxuriant oaks, being his favourite hunting grounds. The Essex Field 

 Club, in their early days, received a good deal of assistance from him, and 

 he sometimes conducted their excursions to such places as West Meisea, 

 ISt. Osyth, etc. 



The South London Entomological and Natukal History Society : 

 October 2bth, 1917. — IIy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The decease of a member, Mr, Archer (1914), was announced. 



The President read a paper on " The Pieridae,^^ dealing chiefly with the 

 " lines of variation " in each of the species which breed in Britain usually, and 

 illustrated his remarks with diagrams and the specimens contained in the 

 Society's various collections. Mr. Leeds exhibited aberrations of Pieris rapae, 

 (5 without spots, <S large, S 's third brood small, 2 deep yellow below ; 

 P. brassicae, 2 blotched with bright green, 2 P^le blue below, 2 ^ery large ; 

 P. napi, (5 third brood small, Mr. Moore, exotic Pierids to show that many 

 species were not white : Tachyris nero, red ; Arclionias critias, nearly all black ; 

 Appias celestina, blue ; Nepheronia thalassina, pale green ; Teracolus sp., iri- 

 descent at apex ; and Lepiophobia sp., silvery lustre below. He also showed 

 Leiicidia brephos^ the smallest Pierid known, and the much debated Pseudo- 

 pontia paradoxa. Mr, ^^'est (Greenwich), the local Coleopteron Clonus 

 loiu/icollis, a series. Mr. Bunnett, the Coleopteron Ptinus tectus, which had 

 attacked some cayenne pepper. 



November 8th, 1917.— The President in the Chair, 



The decease of a Life-member, Mr. R. Standen (1873), was announced. 



Mr. Leeds exhibited forms and aberrations of various British Leucmnidoe, 

 including Leucania impura, with ab. punctina, etc. ; L. pcdleiis, with ab, ectypa, 

 ab. arcuata^ etc. ; L. phragmitidis, with ab. rufescens, etc. ; Coenobia rufa ; 

 Tapinostvla fidva ; Nonagria gpmmipiincta, with ab, nnipuncta, ab. obsoleta, 

 etc. ; N. dissoluta ; N. brevilinea, with ab. sinelmea, etc. Mr. A, W. 

 Buckstone, a series of a small race of Aricia medon (astrarche), from 

 Wendover, May 1912, with Surrey series for comparison. Mr. Edwards, a 

 number of species of Pieridae, and referred to the different odours which were 

 emitted by the specialised scales in many species. Mr. Turner, examples of 

 the Pierid, AntJiocharis crameri {beliu), from some twenty localities, and referred 

 to the local and seasonal forms. 



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