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Election of Fellows. 



Mr. James B. Casserley, 7 Gloucester Road, Finsbury 

 Park, N., and Mr. M. Lawson Thompson, 35 Leven Street, 

 Saltburn-by-the-Sea, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited various Lepidoptera from the 

 Cevennes, including a series of Lycsena dolus var. vittata, L. 

 damon, L. meleager, Melanargia iapygia var. cleanthe, and M. 

 galatea ab. leucomelas ; also a dark form of Thais cerisyi 

 bred from a pupa received from Armenia. He also exhibited 

 a specimen of Vanessa antiopa taken this year at Eltham, and 

 two specimens of Cerastes erythrocephala bred from ova laid 

 by the parent moth captured on sallows near Canterbury. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Brown exhibited a remarkable variety of 

 Melitsea didyma, taken by him at Chateau de la Caze, Tarn, in 

 which the black markings of the lower underside wings were 

 almost entirely absent, and a series of Lycxna dolus var. vittata 

 from the Cevennes, with L. admetus var. rippertii from Digne, 

 showing the remarkable affinity of the two species, which 

 however were never found on the same ground or in the same 

 localities while collecting. Mr. Tutt expressed his opinion that 

 the two were probably identical species, and Dr. Chapman 

 remarked that the genitalia were structurally alike in either 

 form. The absence of the blue dimorphic form of the male 

 admetus is however remarkable. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a number of butterflies taken by 

 himself and Mr. G. C. Champion in the Sierra Albarracin, 

 Spain, last July. He said, " The district traversed by Mr. 

 Champion and myself was practically the same as that 

 described by Mrs. Nicholl in her paper in the Transactions 

 for 1897 (p. 427), and consequently there is little to be 

 added to the observations recorded therein. The country is 

 a hilly rather than mountainous district; it nearly all lies 

 between the limits of 3000 and 5000 feet, only a few 

 narrow ridges exceeding the latter elevation, and except the 

 river gorges little of it is below 3500, so that it is mis- 

 leading to regard it as mountainous. But it is very rough 





