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Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited, for Mr. Turner, au imago and some larval 

 forms of Ledra aurita, Linn. 



Mr. G. C. Griffiths exhibited, and read notes on, hybrids between 

 Platysamia cecropia (male) and P. gloverl (female) ; between P. cecropia 

 (male) and P. ceanotha (female) ; and between Actias luna (male) and 

 A. selene (female). 



Lord Walsingham read a supplementary note on Grapholitha, Hb. 



Dr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Notes on Seasonal 

 Dimorphism in certain African Butterflies." — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



November 6th. — The Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, F.R.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. Cecil W. Barker, and Lieut. H. G. R. Beavan, R.N., were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Lord Walsingham announced the death of Mons. E. L. Ragonot, 

 President of the Entomological Society of France, and, since 1887, a 

 Foreign Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, whose loss would 

 be felt by entomologists all over the world. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Waterhouse, calling attention to 

 the prospectus of a Monograph by Mr. Ernest Green on the Coccida of 

 Ceylon. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited two larvae, supposed to be those of a species of 

 Anobium, which had been damaging oil paintings in his possession ; also 

 two specimens of a luminous species of Pyrophorus, which he had received 

 alive from the West Indies. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited a portion of a collection of Lepidoptera made in 

 Hoy, Orkney, in 1895, including Agrotis vestigialis, A. tritici, and A. cur- 

 sorla, not previously recorded from Orkney. Mr. Barrett, Mr. McLachlan, 

 and the Chairman made some remarks on the collection. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a series of Emydia cribrum var. Candida, which he 

 had bred from eggs obtained from a specimen caught by Mr. Merrifield in 

 May, 1895, in Northern Italy. He stated that being unable to obtain 

 Calluna vulgaris, the ordinary food-plant, he had tried the larvae with knot 

 grass [Polygonum aviculare), and had no difficulty in rearing them. 



The Rev. Canon Fowler exhibited, on behalf of Prof. Poulton, living 

 specimens of Diapheromera femorata bred from eggs received from Prof. 

 Titchener, of Cornell University, New York. The young larvae had 

 emerged from the eggs in July and August and fed on lime. Several pairs 

 had arrived at maturity, and were feeding in cases in the Oxford Museum, 



The Rev. J. H. Hocking exhibited a specimen of Xylina sinckenii, 

 taken by him at sugar on the trunk of an oak tree at Copdock, near 

 Ipswich, on Sept. 30th. It had apparently only recently emerged from the 

 chrysalis. He also exhibited two specimens of Xanthia ocellaris taken at 



