i8 93 .] THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



Mr. Hodgkinson did not entirely confine himself to Lepidoptera. 

 For some time he worked hard at Coleoptera, and gave a good deal of 

 time to Ornithology. His collection of British Birds, numbering over 

 600 specimens, was presented by him to the Museum of his native 

 town. 



The writer had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Hodgkinson's collection 

 last year. It is wonderfully complete, only some half-a-dozen of the 

 recognized British species being unrepresented, while he has long rows 

 of many of the rarest ones. 



Our portrait is from a Photograph taken in 1891. 



We regret to add that Mr. Hodgkinson is at present very ill, and 

 quite unable to attend to correspondence. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March 29th, 1893.— Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 chair. Mr. Ernest Swinhoe, of Avenue House, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited, for Mr. A. E. Stearns, a living specimen of 

 a luminous species of Pyvophorus, which had been found in an orchid house at 

 Dorking. It was supposed to have emerged from the roots of a species of Cattleya 

 from Colombia. Mr. A H. Jones exhibited living full-grown larvae of Charaxes jasius, 

 found by Mr. Freceric Raine, at Hyeres, feeding on Arbutus unedo. Surgeon-Captain 

 Manders exhibited a series of Lyccena theophrastus from Rawal Pindi, showing 

 climatal variations, the rainy-season form being of darker coloration, and larger than 

 that occurring in the dry season. The ground colour of the former on the under 

 surface was markedly white with deep black striae ; in the latter form the ground 

 colour was distinctly reddish, and the marking reduced to reddish lines. He said 

 that the latter form had been described as L. alteratus. Mr. F. Merrifield mentioned 

 that Dr. Weismann had now established that the colouring of Chrysophanus phlceas in 

 different climates or seasons, though in part attributable to the actual temperature, 

 was in part constitutional. Mr. S. G. C. Russell exhibited a beautifuJ variety of 

 Argynnis selene, taken near Fleet, Hants; two varieties of A. selene from Abbot's 

 Wood, Sussex; typical specimens of A. selene and A. euphrosyne for comparison; 

 and a remarkable variety of Pieris napi from Woking, Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a 

 microscopic preparation of the antenna of the larva of a beetle (Pterostichus) , for the 

 purpose of demonstrating the sensory nature of the so-called "appendix" of the 

 antenna, Since he wrote a note describing this structure, a short time ago, he found 

 that Professor Beauregard had already suggested its sensory character, and was 

 inclined to believe that it was an auditory organ. Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen 

 of Trogus lapidator, Grav., believed to have been bred from a larva of Papilio machaon 

 taken in Norfolk by Major-General Carden. Mr. Goss stated that he sent the 

 specimen to the Rev. T. A. Marshall, who said it was a well-known parasite of 

 P. machaon on the Continent, but not proved to exist in the United Kingdom. Mr. 

 Merrifield said he knew this parasite, and had bred several specimens of it from 

 pupae of P. machaon received from Spain. Colonel Swinhoe read a paper entitled 



