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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[June 



May ii\th, 1891. — The President in the chair. Messrs. H. Rowland-Brown, B.A., 



F. E.S., of Harrow-Weald ; G. Bird, of Honor Oak ; F. E. Filer, of Southwark ; 



G. W. Ruffle, of Camberwell ; A. E. Dewey, of Walham Green ; and A. C. Forrester, 

 of Clapham, were elected members. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. E. Robson, of Hartlepool, a box con- 

 taining varieties of the underside of Lyecena icarus, L. agesiis, and Vanessa 

 atalanta, varieties of V. urtict^, Caytonympha pamphilus, var. albescens, a long, 

 varied series of Abraxas iilmata ; also a dark Colias hyale. Mr. Tugwell also 

 showed, on behalf of Mr. Collins, of Warrington, a dark specimen of Aplecta nebulosa, 

 an extremely dark form of Acronycta rumicis, var. salicis, and a variety of 

 Leucania lithargyria, with almost white under wings with a strongly-marked 

 black band. Mr. Jager, living larvae of Callimorpha hera, reared from ova obtained 

 from a specimen captured in S. Devon, 1890. Mr. R. Adkin, Noctua festiva, 

 from Forres., Isle of Unst, N. Wales, and Kent. Mr. Tugwell, bred forms of 

 Lobophora viretata, 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Merrifield, and extracts from his papers on 

 the effects of temperature on the colouring of certain species of Lepidoptera, the 

 consideration of which stood over until a subsequent meeting. Mr. Tutt contributed 

 a paper — " Reproduction and Parthenogenesis." — H. \V. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Thursday, yth May. — Mr. Clark, President, in the chair. Dr. Chapman exhibited 

 (per Mr. Tutt,) a hybrid between A. betularia and prodromaria, a very dark T. populeti, 

 fine banded T. instabilis, a bred series of several of the genus Acronycta, B. terealis, 

 from Hereford, &c. Mr. Quail, light coloured cocoons of S. carpini, from Wicken, 

 with the insects produced from them, three being good varieties. Mr. Pont, bred 

 series of C. femigata and C. unidentata, and pointed out that these unidentata have a 

 small V shaped notch in the outer margin of the central band, that cannot be traced 

 in the series of femigata. Messrs. Clark, Tutt, Huckett, &c., series of Triphanida, to 

 illustrate a paper read by Mr. Clark, on the life history of Triphania subseqiia. Mr. 

 Milton, E. extensaria, piilchellata and Ephestia Kuhniclla, also the following Coleoptera : — 

 Oxyporus ritfus, Siipha punctata and Clconns sulcirostris ; Diptera, Stratiomys riparia and 

 Gastvophilus cqui, bred from the larvae. Mr. Battley exhibited Siipha laevigata, &c., 

 from Southend. ^Ir. Hasler, Liosomus ovatuhts, and the v2s. -oollaris, from Highgate. 

 Mr. Lewcock, living specimens of Dinarda Mcerkeli, from Penzance ; also a quantity of 

 beetles received from Mr. Jarvis, of Cape Town, South Africa, on which he read 

 some notes. 



Thursday, 21st May, iSgi. — Mr. J. A. Clark, President, in the chair. Exhibits: — 

 Mr. Smith, Saturnia carpini, from Wicken and Lyndhurst. He pointed out that the 

 ground colour of these specimens was very different, the one bred from the light 

 (Wicken) cocoon being much browner than that from the dark (Lyndhurst) one. Mr. 

 Prout, a yellow var. of Abraxas grossulariata, a dark specimen of Amphidasys 

 prodromaria, Selenia illustraria, Nyssiu hispidaria. Sec. Mr. Clark, series of Tephrosia 



