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Mr. Boulenger read a " Second Report on Additions to the Lizard 

 Collection in the Natural History Museum." It contained a long list of 

 species previously unrepresented in the collection, specimens of which had 

 been acquired since the appearance of the first Report, published in the 

 1 Proceedings ' of the Society for 1890. This list was supplemented with 

 the descriptions of several new species. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell called attention to the acquisition by the Natural 

 History Museum of some specimens of remarkable Corals of great size 

 from North-west Australia, of which he showed some photographs. — P. L. 

 Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



December 5th, 1894.— H. J. Elwes,' F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Messrs. E. A. Bowles, M.A., of Myddelton House, Waltham Cross; 

 E. C. Cotes, of the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; Wolley-Dod, of Calgary, 

 Alberta, Canada; Joseph W. Green, of West Lodge, Blackheath ; Henry 

 Keeble, of 10, Coleman Street, E.C. ; and Thomas Turner, of Collumpton, 

 Devon, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. F. Merrifield exhibited hybrids belonging to the genus Saturnia, 

 obtained by Dr. Standfuss, of Zurich, viz., a male and female hybrid from 

 a male of S. pavonia and a female of S.pyri, to which he had given the 

 name of S. emilia ; also hybrids from what Dr. Standfuss described as 

 11 a male of Callimorpha dominula var. persona " (received from Tuscany) 

 and a typical form female of C. dominula, to which he had given the name 

 of C. romanovi. Mr. Merrifield remarked that the so-called var. persona 

 differed entirely from the type of C. dominula. 



Mr. J. W. Tutt exhibited and read notes on specimens of a very small 

 form of Euchlo'e, taken in Shropshire by the Rev. F. B. Newnham, who was 

 of opinion that it was distinct from E. cardamines. He pointed out that it 

 was much smaller than the latter species, and that the discoidal spot was 

 placed, as in E. turritis and E. gruneri, at the juncture of the orange and 

 white spaces, and not, as in E. cardamines, well within the orange tip. 

 Mr. Tutt also exhibited and read notes on specimens of Noctua dahlii, from 

 Cheshire, Essex, Yorkshire, Aberdeenshire, and other counties. The 

 variation in the specimens was said to be partly due to sexual dimorphism, 

 and partly to their geographical distribution. 



Herr Jacoby read a letter received from Mr. Buxton Forman, one of the 

 iVssistant Secretaries of the Post Office, to the effect that the Postal Union 

 had decided to make a rule not to allow natural-history specimens to be sent 

 by sample post, which was intended for the transmission of bona fide trade- 

 patterns or samples of merchandise, and consequently that the forwarding 



