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October 18. — Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Professor C. H. Tyler Townsend, of the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, 

 Jamaica, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited two Leucania vitellina and one L. extranea, 

 taken by Mr. B. W. Adkin in the Scilly Islands, in August, 1893. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a specimen of Polyommatus bceticus, and a 

 number of varieties of Chrysophanus phlceas, captured in Kent, in September 

 last, by Mr. Sabine ; also a curious variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, taken 

 in Lancashire in May, 1893, by Mr. T. Baynes; a pallid variety of Vanessa 

 urtica, taken by Mr. W. E. Cox in Moumouthshire, in July, 1893 ; and a 

 Triphana pronuba, the right wings of which were typical, and the left wings 

 resembled the variety innuba, caught at sugar, in Dovedale, Derbyshire, 

 by Mr. Blagg, in July, 1893. 



Mr. G. H. Verrall exhibited a specimen of the Tsetse (Glossina morsitans), 

 and also one of the common European allied species (Stomoxys calcitrans). 

 He also exhibited a specimen of Hamatobia serrata, Dsv., which he stated 

 was not uncommon on cattle in England, but believed to be harmless ; 

 while in North America the dreaded " horn-fly " is said to be the same 

 species. 



Mr. Elwes exhibited a larva which he had found three days previously 

 under stones on a moraine, apparently quite destitute of vegetation, in the 

 Tyrol, at an elevation of about 7000 feet. He remarked on the number 

 of Alpine butterflies, some of them in fresh condition, which he had seen 

 whilst chamois-hunting iu the Tyrol during the last week, and he suggested 

 that in such a fine autumn as the present one collectors might find more 

 novelties among the larvae of Alpine species than in the summer. 



Colonel Swinhoe read a paper entitled " A list of the Lepidoptera of the 

 Khasia Hills" (Pt. 2). Mr. Elwes said he thought all entomologists would 

 be grateful to Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Hampson, Mr. Meyrick, and others, 

 for the work they had recently been doing in describing the moths of India; 

 but as the district of the Khasia Hills was probably richer in species than 

 any other part of India, except Sikkim, and new species were being received 

 almost daily, it was impossible to make any list complete. Mr. Jacoby, 

 Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jenner Weir, and Colonel Swinhoe continued the 

 discussion. 



Mr. E. Meyrick communicated a paper entitled " On a Collection of 

 Lepidoptera from Upper Burma." The author stated that the species 

 enumerated in the paper were collected by Surgeon-Captain Manders whilst 

 on active service in the Shan States and their neighbourhood, shortly 

 after the British annexation of the territory. A discussion followed, in 

 which the President, Surgeon-Captain Manders, and Colonel Swinhoe took 

 part. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary, 



