THE ^ BRITISH esfMURALlST. 



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EDMUND HENRY HANKS. 



With many regrets we have to record the loss of Mr. E. Hanes, who died of consump- 

 tion, on February 23rd, at his home in Kentish Town, London, at the early age of 25. He 

 was elected one of the Secretaries of the City of London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society, in December, 1888, and continued to hold that office until illness 

 necessitated his retirement, in the autumn of i8go. As an entomologist, he confined his 

 attention solely to insects captured by himself, and did not exchange, but was always 

 willing to give his surplus specimens to others. His last efforts were directed to breeding 

 P. smaragdaria, in which he was successful. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March ^th, 1891.— The Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe, Mr. F. W. Frohawk, Mr. Charles Fryer, Mr. G. F. 

 Hampson, B. A., Mr. Frederick J. Hanbury, F.L.S., and Mr. G. B. Routledge, were 

 admitted into the Society. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited, and made remarks on, a curious Coleopterous larva 

 with a case somewhat resembling that of the Lepidopterous genus Psyche, which was 

 found at the Theatre of Bacchus, Athens. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas sent for exhibition specimens of Icerya (Crossatosoma) cegyptiaca, 

 which, through the kindness of Mr. A. D. Michael, he had received from Alexandria 

 on the 19th January last. It was stated that in travelling most of them had become 

 loose, and had lost their waxen appendages ; but a few still remained on their food- 

 plant. In connection with this subject, Mr. G. H, Verrall alluded to a Dipterous 

 parasite of Icerya from Adelaide — Lestophoniis icevycB, Williston— which had been bred 

 from Icerya Purchasi, Mask., last February. Mr. M'Lachlan and Lord Walsingham 

 continued the discussion. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a long and interesting series of Triphana orbona (comes), 

 from various parts of the South of England, Yorkshire, Forres, the Isle of Man, ^he 

 Isle of Lewis, and the North of Ireland. 



Mr. G. F. Hampson exhibited a series of varieties of Plotheia frontalis. Walk., 

 which was the only species in the genus, and confined to Ceylon. He said that the 

 varied forms of this species had been described under twenty-one different names by 

 Walker, Felder, and Moore. 



Mr. F. Merrifield showed a number of specimens of Selenia illustraria ', of three 

 different stocks, proving that the spring brood of this species, which passed the winter 

 in the pupal stage, was, like the summer pupa, materially affected in colouring by 

 the temperature to which the pupa had been exposed in its later stages. He thought 



