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the rocks on which they settled, but which frequently abandoned their protective 

 habit and sat with open wings. Mr. Barrett, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. 

 Champion, Mr. H. Goss, Canon Fowler and jMr. Frohawk continued the discussion. 

 Mr. Goss informed the meeting that, in pursuance of a Resolution of the Council 

 passed in March last, he and Captain Elwes had represented the Society at the 

 recent Government enquiry, as to the safety and suitability of the proposed Rifle 

 Range in the New Forest, held at Lyndhurst by the Hon. T. W. H. Pelham, on the 

 2oth, 2ist, 22nd and 23rd inst., and that they had given evidence at such enquiry, 

 and addressed a large meeting of War Office officials, Verderers, and Commoners. 



May 11. — Frederick DuCane Godman, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 

 Dr. Edward A. Heath, M.D., of 114, Ebury St., Pimlico, S.VV. ; and Mr. Samuel 

 Hoyle, of Audley House, Sale, Cheshire, were elected Fellows of the Society. The 

 President announced the death, on the 4th of May, of Dr. Carl August Dohrn, 

 of Stettin, one of the ten Honorary Fellows of the Society. Mr. Stainton expressed 

 regret at the death of Dr. Dohrn, whom he had known for a great number of years, 

 and commented upon his work and personal qualities. Dr. D. Sharp exhibited 

 drawings of the eggs of a species of Hemiptera, in illustration of a paper read by him 

 before the Society ; and also a specimen of a mosquito, Megarhina JiaDiorrJioidalis, from 

 the Amazon district, with the body, legs and palpi furnished with scales as in Micro- 

 Lepidoptera. The Rev. Canon Fowler, on behalf of Mrs. Venables, of Lincoln, 

 exhibited cocoons of a species of Bombyx from Chota Nagpur, India ; also the larvae- 

 cases of a species of Psychidae, Cholia crameri, from Poona, India ; and a curious case, 

 apparently of another species of Psychidae, from the island of Likoma, Lake Nyassa_ 

 Mr. F. W. Frohawk, on behalf of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, exhibited a specimen 

 of Pseudacraa miraculosa mimicking Danais chrysippus ; also a specimen of the mimic 

 of the latter, — Diadema viissippus, and read notes on the subject. Mr. C. G. Barrett 

 exhibited, and commented on, a long series of specimens of Melitaa aurinia [artemis) 

 from Hampshire, Pembrokeshire, Cumberland, and other parts of the United 

 Kingdom ; also a long and variable series of Corcmia flnctuata. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, 

 for Mr. W. Borrer, jun., Hurstpierpoint, a photograph of a portion of a nest of Vespa 

 vulgaris which had been built with the object of concealing the entrance thereto and 

 protecting the whole nest from observation He also read notes on the subject, 

 which had been communicated to him by Mr. Borrer. The Hon. Walter Rothschild 

 communicated a paper entitled " Notes on a collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. 

 Wm. Doherty in Southern Celebes during August and September, i8gi." He also j 

 sent for examination the types of the new species described therein. Dr. Sharp read ' 

 a paper entitled " On the eggs of an Hemipterous Insect of the family Reduviida." — 

 H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, Hon. Sees. j 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



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May 19th. — Messrs. R. Adkin, F.E.S., and R. South, F.E.S., were elected 

 members of the Society. Exhibits : — Lepidoptera — Mr. -Riches, a living larva of 1 

 Agrotis nigricans and pupa of Hepialus JniinuU. Mr. Clark, a cabinet drawer | 

 containing 33 species of Depressaria. Dr. Sequeira, a large number of dwarfs of | 

 various species with types for comparison, the most noticeable being Vanessa j 

 polychloros, Lycana covydon, Setina ivrorella and Sesia ckrysidiforniis. Air. Bloomfield, I 

 large number of Tcsniocampas and two Selenia illustraria irom Epping Forest. Mr. ] 

 Bacot, TLtniocanipa instabilis from Epping Forest and a living specimen of LopJwptcryx \ 

 canielina taken at Clapton, the same day Mr. Bayne .• a series of Ampliidasys \ 

 prudroiiiai-ia from Epping Forest and three examples of Tuniocarapa populcti from the j 

 same locality. Mr. Hill: a series of T.eniocampa gothica and var. gothacina from ! 

 Rannock ; also examples of Hylophila pvasinana with the green colour changed to , 



