1892.] 



THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



appointment in H.M. Customs, in which service he continued for more 

 than 50 years, for tlie last 13 of which he was chief of the Export 

 Department. Durnig the greater part of this period he had but Httle 

 time, apart from his official duties and his family cares, but he 

 devoted his leisure to entomology. For a long time he collected and 

 studied British Lepidoptera, and contributed many papers to the 

 current journals (see " Hagen Biblioth. Entomol."); among other 

 Memoirs, a Monograph of the British species of the genus Gelechia 

 to the "Transactions of the Entomological Society." He was the 

 acknowledged helper of Stainton, in the "Natural History of the 

 Tineina." With the assistance of John Scott he compiled the 

 "British Hemiptera" for the Royal Society, and furnished much of 

 the material that Scott published in the "Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine." He also described several new species of Typhlocybidcu 

 therein; he has been one of the Editors of that journal for the last 17 

 years, and has contributed thereto, among other matter, a series of 

 articles on the Coccidae, in which many new species are described. 

 He also made an extensive collection of British Coleoptera, but wrote 

 only occasional notes about them. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



April 27t]i, 1892. — Robert McLachlan, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer, in the chair. Mr. 

 William Edward Baily, of Fynwood House, Paul Churchtown, Penzance ; and Mons. 

 Edmond Fleutiaux, of i, Rue Mains, Paris, were elected Fellows of the Society. 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited, for Mr. Sabine, varieties of the following species ; — 

 viz., one of Papilio machaon, brad by Mr. S. Baily, at Wicken, in 1886; one of 

 Argyniiis lathonia, taken at Dover in September. 1883; one of A. cupiirosyne, taken at 

 Dover in i8go ; and one of A. sclene, taken at St. Osyth, in 1885, by Mr. W H. 

 Harwood. He also exhibited a long series of Dennis coryli, reared by Major Still 

 from larvse fed exclusively on beech, which he said appeared to be the usual food of 

 the species in Devonshire, instead of hazel or oak. Mr. Barrett also exhibited, for 

 Mr. Sydney Webb, a number of varieties of Avge galathea, Lasiommata nieoani, 

 Hippavcliia iithonus, and CiFuonympha painpliiliis, from the neighbourhood of Dover. 

 The Rev. J. Seymour St. John exhibited a variety of the female of Hybcriiia 

 progeiiiiiuii'ia, taken at Clapton in Marcli last, in which the partially developed wings 

 were equally divided in point of colour, the base being extremely dark and the outer 

 portion of the wing very pale. The Rev. Canon Fowler made some remarks on the 

 subject of protective resemblance; his attention has been recently called to the fact 

 that certain species of KaUiiiia apparently lose their protecti\-e habit in some 

 localities, and sit with their wings open, and that Dr. A. K. Wallace had informed 

 him that he had heard of a species of KalUma sitt/ng up-^ide down on stalks, and 

 thus, in another way. abandoning its protecti\e habits. I\ir. \V. L. Distant referred 

 to certain species of South African butterflies, which, when at rest, were protected 

 by their resemblance to the plants on which they repo.^ed, or by their resemblance to 



