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and Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-Presidents of the Society 

 for the session 1894-95. 



Mr. Walter F. Baker, of 18 . Hyde Terrace, Leeds ; Mr. Percy M. Bright, 

 of Roccabruna, Bournemouth; Professor Lewis Compton Miall, F.R.S., of 

 the Yorkshire College, Leeds ; and Mr. Edwin Wilson, of Cherry Hinton 

 Road, Cambridge, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. M. Adye, a specimen of 

 Plusia moneta, Fabr., which had been captured at Christchurch, Hants, 

 and remarked that this species, which had been found in this country for 

 the first time so recently as June, 1890, was apparently becoming a 

 permanent resident here, as it had been since taken in several of the 

 southern counties. The food-plant, Aeonitum napellus, though rare in 

 England as a wild plant, was very common in gardens. Mr. Jenner Weir 

 also exhibited a nearly black specimen of Venilia macularia, L., the yellow 

 markings beiug reduced to a few small dots. 



Mr. Hamilton Druce exhibited a female specimen of Hypochrysops 

 scintillans, lately received by him from Mioko, New Ireland. He said that 

 only the male of this species had been as yet described. 



Mr. F. Enock exhibited a nest of the British Trap-door Spider, Atypus 

 piceus, recently found near Hastings by Mrs. Enock. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford stated that he had recently obtained an 

 additional species of Scolyto-platypus from Japan, which, though closely 

 allied to the species he had formerly described, showed a very distinct 

 modification of the male prosternum. 



Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited and remarked on a specimen of Leptispa 

 pygmaa, Baly, which was doing much injury to sugar-cane in the Bombay 

 Presidency of India. Mr. G. C. Champion stated that he had found an 

 allied species on bamboo. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey read a paper — which was illustrated by the oxyhydrogen 

 lantern — " On the Phylogeny of the Pierinm as illustrated by their wing- 

 markings and geographical distribution." A long discussion ensued, in 

 which the President, Mr. Osbert Salvin, Mr. Jacoby, Colonel Swinhoe, 

 Mr. Jenner Weir, Mr. Hampson, and Mr. Kenrick took part. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman read a paper entitled " Some notes on those species 

 of Micro-Lepidoptera, allied to Micropteryx, whose larvae are external feeders, 

 and chiefly on the early stages of Eriocephala calthella." Mr. Hampson 

 and the President made some remarks on the subject of the paper. 



Mr. Hamilton H. Druce read a paper entitled " Description of the 

 female of Hypochrysops scintillans, Butler." 



The Rev. Dr. Walker communicated a paper by Mr. R. H. F. Rippon, 

 entitled " Description of a variety of Ornithoptera [Priamopter a) urvilliana." 

 — H. Goss & W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 



