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in the Chair. — The Eeport of the Council, Statement of the Treasurer 

 and Balance Sheet were received and adopted. The following mem- 

 bers were declared elected Officers and Council for the ensuing year : 

 —President: E.J. Bunnett, M.A., F.E.S. Vice-Presidents: K. G. 

 Blair, B.Sc, F.E.S., and N. D. Eiley, F.E.S., F.Z.S. Treasurer: 

 A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. Librarian : A. W. Dods. Curator : S. B, Ashby, 

 F.E.S. Assistant Curator : T. L. Barnett. Editor of Proceedings: 

 Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Hon. Secretaries : Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., and Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Eecorder : L. E. Dunster. 

 Lanternist : A. W. Dennis. Council : T. L. Barnett, A. A. W. 

 Buckstone, L. E. Dunster, 0. E. Goodman, F.E.S., T. H. L. 

 Grosvenor, F.E.S., H. A. Leeds, G. S. Eobertson, M.D., E. Step, 

 F.L.S., and S. Syms. — The President being unwell, his Annual 

 Address was read by Mr. Eiley. It was entitled " Will o' the Wisp," 

 and dealt historically and biologically with fireflies. — The new Presi- 

 dent, Mr. E. J. Bunnett, then took the Chair, and votes of thauks were 

 passed to the retiring Officers and Council. Major C. E. Lyles, 6, 

 Hyde Park Mansions, and Mr. J. H. Adkin, W 7 hitecliff Eoad, Purley, 

 were elected members. — Mr. C. Craufurd exhibited an Aglais urticac 

 w 7 ith a curious deficiency of colour in two streaks on the hind margin 

 of the hind wings ; the scaling was perfect. 



February 9th. — The President in the Chair. — Miss Alice K. Lock, 

 77, Grove Hill Eoad, S.E., was elected a member. — Mr. E. Adkin 

 exhibited a. second brood series of Brenthis selene from Abbot's 

 Wood, Sussex, at end of July and in August. — Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone, 

 a large form of the same species racial in the Isle of Arran, and a 

 series of a small race from Headly ; and an aberrant form of 

 Taeniocampa incerta, resembling both T. munda and T. gracilis. — 

 Mr. H. W T . Andrews, the Anthomyidae (Dip.), Hijlophila sponsa, said 

 to be rare, but common in Kent, and species of local Limnophora. — 

 Mr. H. Moore, a large species of Galeodes from Cape Town, iisually 

 placed between the spiders and the mites ; it attacks small birds, lizards, 

 etc., and is venomous. — Mr. Blenkarn, Cryptocephalus corijli from 

 Mickleham, with a spot on each elytra, and the racial form of 

 Philodecta laticollis from Killarney, December, 1921. — Mr. H. J. 

 Turner, for Mr. Greer of Stewartstown, aberrations of butterflies, 

 Euchloc cardamines, $ ab. marginata, J orange, streaked with 

 black, $ small, $ large, $ ab. radiata, $ orange streaks on fore 

 wing; Melitaea aurinia, $ dull and obscure ; Para rge megera, <$ , 

 apical blotch reduced to a dot, apical spot duplicated ; Polyommatus 

 icarus, <$, faint red marginal spots on hind wing above and below, 

 ab. icarinus, <$ $ gynandromorph, 9 with red spots in margin 

 forming a band. — Mr. Frohawk, Aglais urticac, suffused very con- 

 siderably ; Pieris napi J , asymmetrical central wing spot, R. almost 

 missing^ L. unusually large; Argynnis paphia, J, central markings 

 much suffused; Euchloc cardamines, J and $, with discal spots in 

 hind wings ; P. brassicae, a series oinigronotata with well-developed 

 discal spot ; also a fine pencil sketch of a hybrid pheasant and grouse. 

 —Mr. Enefer, Curcuta epithymum, the dodder of the gorse. an 

 anastomose specimen of oak, and a section of the mistletoe on apple. 

 — H. J. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



