i8 93 .] THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 105 



upon the skins and sinews of animals, and that a beef bone with dried fragments of 

 meat attached was as suitable as anything else to breed them upon. The proceedings 

 terminated with a vote of thanks to Mr. Lewcock. 



[My attention has been directed to the discrepancy between the report of the 

 meeting of this Society on the 21st February last, when my paper " On Melanism " 

 was read, and that in the " Entomologist's Record." I can only say that my report 

 was printed verbatim from the copy supplied me by the Secretary, and the " Record " 

 report is not correct. — Ed. B.N.] 



THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



March 23rd, 1893. — J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Mr* 

 R. Adkin exhibited the following species of Diurni from Sutherlandshire, N.B., viz. : 

 Pieris brassi&z, P. rapce, and P. napi ; Argynnis selene, A. euphrosyue, and A.aglaia\ 

 Epinephele janira, Qcendhympha Typhon, and Thecla rubi, and commented on the 

 similarity of the forms shown to those occurring in the South of England. He 

 noticed, however, in the C. typhon that although there was a considerable variation 

 in the colour, in none were the dots on the hind-wings prominent as in many of the 

 Rannock specimens. The specimens of A . selene and A . euphrosyue shown, were .'-o 

 remarkably alike, as to render it extremely difficult to distinguish with certainty, 

 the one species from the other. Mr. H. Moore exhibited a striking example of 

 fasciation in the young wood of Salix caprcea, also an example of the transference of 

 the scales to paper of an Indian butterfly of the Nymphaline group. Mr. W. Mans- 

 bridge stated that the specimen he previously exhibited as Hybernia dcfoliana, 

 was a melanic form of H. aurantiaria, Mr. A. W. Dennis having drawn his attention 

 to the fact, Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a drawing of the antenna of these two species, 

 showing the difference existing, also dark Odontopera bidentata, from Forres, N.B., a 

 strikingly light specimen of Hybernia leucophaaria, and a series of Polia chi, var. 

 suffusa from Horsforth near Leeds, darker than those from either Bradford or 

 Huddersfield, and therein differing from Mr. Tutt's experience as previously 

 expressed. Mr. H. A. Auld exhibited a species of Cassida from Fort White, Upper 

 Burmah. Mr. T. W. Hall remarked on Mr. Moore's exhibit of Salix caprcea and 

 Mr. Mansbridge said he had seen the same peculiarity in Liliaceous plants. Mr. 

 J. M. Adye exhibited two living examples of Dipthera orion (forced) bred from New- 

 Forest larvae of 1892. This exhibit was made in metal boxes and a discussion 

 ensued, Mr. Tugwell considering they would store heat and so make the enclosed 

 insects restless, but Mr. Winkley said he had used this form of box for Argynnis 

 paphia, Sec, without harmful results. In further illustration of the phenomena of 

 mimicry. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited Nebroda echaia var. jacksoni which was closely 

 mimicked by both a Nymphaline and Papilionine species, viz. : Hypolimnas mima 

 and Papilio cenea q the latter species being the southern form of Papilio merope, which 

 was remarkable for the polymorphic and polychromatic varieties of the female. 

 Mr. Weir also exhibited two other similar instances, species from Western Africa 

 and Northern India being also mimicked by both Nymphaline and Papilionine 

 species, and made some interesting comments thereon. 



April 13th, 1893. — J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Edwards exhibited, through the President, a specimen of Papilio jovindva from the 

 Himalayan region, Mr. Weir remarking that the species was a mimic. Mr. R. Adkin 

 read an extract from an interesting letter addressed to Mr. Billups by Mr. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, from Jamaica, and exhibited the leaves containing the species of Coccida? 

 referred to. Mr. Manger exhibited Dorippe japonica, a crustacean from Japan. Mr. 

 Adkin exhibited a small collection of sphinges and bombyces from Sutherlandshire, 



