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upside down on stalks, and thus, in another way, abandoning its protective 

 habits. Mr. W. L. Distant said that a species of butterfly in South Africa, 

 which when its wings were vertically closed resembled the reddish soil on 

 which it settled, in the Transvaal rested with open wings on quartzite rock, 

 which the upper surface of the wings protectively resembled. Mr. Barrett, 

 Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Champion, Mr. H. Goss, Canon Fowler, 

 and Mr. Frohavvk continued the discussion. 



Mr. Goss informed the meeting that, in pursuance of a resolution of the 

 Council passed in March last, he and Mr. Elwes had represented the Society 

 at the recent Government enquiry, as to the »safety and suitability of the 

 proposed Rifle Range in the New Forest, held at Lyndhurst by the Hon. 

 T. W. H. Pelham, on the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd inst., and that they 

 had given evidence at such enquiry, and addressed a large meeting of War 

 Office officials, Verderers, and Commoners. — H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, 

 Hon. Sees. 



May 11, 1892. — Frederick DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Dr. Edward A. Heath, M.D., F.L.S., of U4, Ebury St., Pimlico, 

 S.W. ; and Mr. Samuel Hoyle, of Audley House, Sale, Cheshire, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President announced the death, on the 4th of May, of Dr. Carl 

 August Dohrn, of Stettin, one of the ten Honorary Fellows of the Society. 

 Mr. Stainton expressed regret at the death of Dr. Dohrn, whom he had known 

 for a great number of years, and commented upon his work and personal 

 qualities. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited drawings of the eggs of a species of Hemiptera, 

 in illustration of a paper read by him before the Society; and also a speci- 

 men of a mosquito, Megarhina hcemorrhoidalis, from the Amazon district, 

 with the body, legs and palpi furnished with scales as in Micro-Lepi- 

 doptera. 



The Rev. Canon Fowler, on behalf of Mrs. Venables, of Lincoln, 

 exhibited cocoons of a species of Bombyx from Chota Nagpur, India ; also 

 the larvae-cases of a species of Psychidse, Cholia crameri, from Poona, 

 India ; and a curious case, apparently of another species of Psychidce, from 

 the island of Likoma, Lake Nyassa. Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Poulton, and 

 Mr. Hampson made some remarks on the subject. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk, on behalf of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, exhi- 

 bited a specimen of Pseudacrcea miraculosa mimicking Danais chrysippus ; 

 also a specimen of the mimic of the latter, — Diadema misippus, and read 

 notes on the subject. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited, and commented on, a long series of speci- 

 mens of Melitcea aurinia (artemis) from Hampshire, Pembrokeshire, 



