SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 465 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read a third report on additions to the Batrachian 

 Collection in the Natural History Museum, containing a list of the species, 

 new or previously unrepresented, of which specimens had been added to the 

 collection since 1890, and descriptions of some new species. 



Mr. R. J. Lechmere Guppy communicated an account of some Fora- 

 minifera from the Microzoic Deposits of Trinidad. 



The Secretary read some remarks from Sir Walter L. Buller on a 

 Petrel lately described as new by Capt. Hutton under the name of (Estrelata 

 leucophrys. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



November 1th.— Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. W. P. Blackburne-Maze, of Shaw House, Newbury, Berkshire, 

 and Mr. Bertram George Rye, of 212, Upper Richmond Road, Putney, 

 S.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a female of Papilio telearchus, Hewitson, 

 which he had received by the last mail from Cherra Punji. He said that 

 this was the only known specimen of the female of this species, with the 

 exception of one in Mr. L. de Niceville's collection, which he had described 

 in the ' Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society ' in 1893. He 

 also exhibited a male of the same species for comparison. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited abnormal forms of Pararge meycera, 

 P. cegeria, Melitcea athalia, CJirysophanus phlmas, Charaas graminis, 

 Lophopteryx camelina, Plusia gamma, Cucullia chamomilla, Boarmia 

 repandata var. conversaria, Cidaria psittacata, and other species, all 

 collected by Major J. N. Still on Dartmoor, Devon. He also exhibited, 

 for Mr. Sydney Webb, of Dover, a long series of most remarkable varieties 

 of Arctia caja and A. villica. 



Mr. Gervase F. Mathew exhibited seven beautiful and striking 

 varieties of Arctia villica, bred from larvae obtained on the Essex coast, 

 near Dovercourt, in March and April, 1893 and 1894. 



Herr Jacoby exhibited two specimens of Blaps mucronata, with soft 

 elytra, taken on a wall at Hampstead. The Rev. Canon Fowler and 

 Mr. G. C. Champion made some remarks on the subject of the elytra 

 of immature beetles. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of Periplaneta australasice, received 

 from Mr. C. E. Morris, of Preston, near Brighton. Mr. McLachlan said 

 the species had been introduced into this country, but was now considered 

 a British insect 



Mr. B. G. Rye exhibited specimens of the following rare or local 



