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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[July 



TKE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



26th May. — C. G. Barrett Esq.. F.E.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Jenner 

 Weir exhibited a specimen of Anosia phxippus, L., var. erippus, Cramer, which Mr. 

 Weir remarked had been obtained by one of the employees of Captain Parke in 

 the Falkland Islands, until this insect was captured the only butterfly known in these 

 islands was Brenthis cytheris, during Captain Parke's residence in the islands 

 he had never seen there a specimen of the Anosia in question, it therefore 

 appeared that like its northern representative, the true Anosia phxippus, the southern 

 form had the migratory habit similarh- developed. ]Mr..Hawes exhibited and 

 contributed a note on a series of Pieris napi, bred from ova laid by parent insect taken 

 near Bentley, Suffolk, June loth, 1891, that seven males and female imagines 

 appearing from 21st to 31st July, the remainder of the brood stood over until the 

 spring and emerged between the 6th and 20th of May. Mr. Hawes suggested that 

 the cool summer of last year affected the pupa to such an extent as to retard three- 

 fifths of the brood. Mr. Jenner Weir said this was the most interesting exhibition 

 he had ever seen on this subject, the two forms of the species, viz. : — the summer 

 and spring emergences ha\ing both appeared from a single brood reared under 

 exactly similar circumstances, Mr. Frohawk, a pupa of Argynnis paphia, and made 

 some observations as to the time occupied in the pupal change, he also suggested 

 that the brilliant metallic markings mimicked a dew drop on a dead leaf. Mr. 

 Tugwell's specimens recently taken by him at Tilgate Forest including Syricthus 

 mail's, approaching the var. taras, Meig., Thanaos tages showing variation varieties 

 of Arsynnis euphrosyne ; also an extremely pale variety oi Auisopteryx CFScnJi, taken by 

 Mr Hann. of Redding Mr. R. Adkin, a bred series of Pefasia miheculosa, and 

 remarked on the species remaining in pupa for two or three j-ears. those now 

 exhibited ha\-ing pupated in i8go. Mr. Tugwell stated he had bred them the first 

 season. Mr. Hill, Taniocampa gothica, and var. gothicina from Rannock. Mr. 

 Carpenter an example of Vanessa antiopa, taken on Tooting Common some few years 

 back. Mr. Adkin called attention to the unusual abundance of Plusia gamma, on the 

 last few evenings. Messrs. Dobson. J. A, Cooper, Frohawk, Adye, W^inkley, Tutt, 

 and Barrett also made some obser\'ations thereon. Mr. Jenner Weir delivered a 

 Zoological lecture in which he drew attention to some remarkable cases in which 

 Mammalia and Birds ha\4ng been in remote geological times differentiated for one 

 mode of life, had adopted entirely different habits. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Thursday, June 2nd. — Exhibits. — Lepidoptera : Mr. Battley, a box of Lepidoptera 

 from Southend, Essex, including Lycsna argiolus, a dwarf form of Anthocharis 

 cardamines, AUucis pictaria, Ta-niocampa gracilis, Acronycta rumicis, Hadena getiista, &'C. 

 Mr. Clark, a series of Aniiclea badiata from Epping Forest. Mr. Tremayne, 

 Platypteryx unguicula, Corycia temerata, and Ephyra trilinearia from Epping Forest. Dr. 

 Buckell, li\-ing larvae of Amphipyra pyramidea and Cosmia trapezina. Mr. Smith, 

 Halias prasiKuna, Demas coryli and Odontopera bidentata. Mr. Bayne, a series of 

 Taniocampa mu7ida from Epping Forest, and a specimen of T. stabilis with the wings 

 on one side brown, and partly gre}- on the other. Mr Bacot, a bred series of 

 Spilosonia mendica. Mr. Southey, T^zniccampa gracilis and T. rubricosa from Hampstead. 

 He also e.xhibited two species of Nccfu^ bred from tomatoes imported from Italy, and 

 a specimen of a Bombyx found in a barrel of foreign apples. Coleoptera. — Mr. 

 Heasler, Philydrus melanocephalus from Mitcham. Mr. Beck, Cicindela sylvaiica and 

 Lina populi from Aldershot, Cassida cblcnga from Freshwater, Onthcphagus ovatus from 



