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The South London Entomological and Natubal History Society : 

 Fehruanj \4tth, 1918. — ]Mr Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Heath of Mr. G. Brooks, a member of the Council, was announced. 



Mr. Bowman exhibited a series of femi'.le Hihernia defoliaria from Epping' 

 Forest in which tlie abdoujen was- jet black. Mr. Main, an observation-cage 

 with the burrow of the heexXe Nebtia brevicoliis, and remarked on the abun- 

 dance of the small mounds of dehris from such excavations alter the last frost. 

 Mr. Ashdown, a long series of aberrations of Coccinella hieror/lyphica taken in 

 Surrey in 1917, and a curious old book with coloured plates, entitled "Dia- 

 logues on Entomology," 1819. Mr. B. Adkin, a copy of Merrit's " Pinax," 

 1667, one of the first books on the whole of the British fauna. Mr. West, tl)e 

 locust Schistocerca jJei'ef/rina, found on a ship from W. Africa. Mr. Hy. J. 

 Turner, specimens of Epinephele hjcaon form liipinus from Cyprus, with typical 

 specimens from the French Alps for comparison. Mr. B. Adkin, a series of the 

 mi\\es o^ Agriades thetis (bellar(/us) show'mp; gradation in colour development, 

 including a clouded example on which the patches seemed to be formed of 

 scales curled up when it was looked at obliquely. The President, various 

 species and forms of the helenus group of the genus Papilio, which Moore has 

 called the subgenus Chorus, including P. chaon, P. helenvs, P. fuf-ctis {sevenis)y 

 P. incara, etc. A short discussion took place on the " Introduction of non- 

 indigenous species into the country." 



February 28M, 1918.- The President in the Chair. 



Exhibition of lantern-slides. The President exhibited slides showing 

 varied forms of antennae, wing venation, androconial scales, and other 

 anatomical details of insect structure, and a slide illustrative of •' Paedo- 

 genesis" in Miustor, a Cecidomyiid (Dipt). Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a copy of 

 CapC Browne's ''Butterflies, Sphinges, and Moths," 1832, and called attention 

 to the crude shape and colour of the figures. — Hy. J. TuR^■KR, Hon. Kditor of 

 Proceedings. 



NEW AND LITTLE- KNOWN SALTATORIAL DASCILLIDAE. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPIOX, F.Z.S. 



The Central American Dascillidae were described b}^ niy«;elf in 

 1897,* and since that time but little has been written on the exotic 

 saltatorial forms, apart from "Descriptions abregees," published from 

 time to time by Pic, many of which are almost useless for the identifica- 

 tion of closely allied insects. The numerous new species of Scirtes and 

 its allies contained in the British Museum, including an interesting series 

 from Borneo and Penang recently presented by Mr. G. E. Bryant, are 

 described in the present paper, and additional localities, etc., given for 



* A few Anfilloan Scirteo, etc.. were added br me in Trans. Ent. Soo. Lond. 1897, and a very 

 remarkable one frDoi Xyasaland, in the Ent. Mo. Mai,', for litlT. 



