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doubt that the names to which he has given preference will continue to 

 be those used in this country, until some absolute agreement has been 

 arrived at by the Entomologists of different countries. For the most 

 distinct varietal forms he has used names where such are well known, 

 but he has wisely abstained from adding to their number. Altogether 

 the book is a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject, and 

 must find a place on the shelves of all students of Lepidoptera. 



Reports of Societies. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AN D NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Tuesday, 4th July, 1893. — Exhibits : Mr. Gates, cases and bred imagines of 

 Psyche radiella, Coleophora lineola, C. nigricella and C. satnratella ; also examples of 

 Stigmonota intemana and Pterophorus pentadactylus. Mr. Clark, two specimens of 

 Smerinthus tilia, showing the extremes of the pink and green forms, both bred from 

 the same batch of eggs. Mr. Tremayne, bred specimens of Vanessa polychloros and 

 Thera variata, including a dwarf specimen of the latter. Mr. Battley, living larva of 

 Timandva amataria. Mr. Oldham, a specimen of Plusia moneta taken at Woodford, 

 and Abraxas ulmata from Epping Forest. Mr. Smith, Halias quercana, Angerona 

 prunaria and Pericallia syringaria, all from Epping Forest. Dr. Sequeira, Papilio 

 machaon and larvae of same, also bred specimens of Vanessa io. 



Coleoptera : Mr. Heasler, Magdalinus barbicornis, Cryptocephalus frontalis and Tilhis 

 elongatusi, all from Sudbury, Middlesex. Mr. Burrows, a female specimen of Tillus 

 elongatus from Billericay. Dr. Buckell then brought forward the rough draft of the 

 list of London Lepidoptera. The list of Rhopalocera was gone through, and several 

 additions given, and a vote of thanks to Dr. Buckell concluded the proceedings. 



July 18th, 1893.— Mr. G. B. Morris, of 18, Woburn Place, W.C., was elected a 

 member of the Society. Dr. Buckell presented to the Society's Library a copy of 

 the 1829 edition of Stephens' " British Insects," and also Cuvier's " Animal 

 Kingdom" ; the part of the latter relating to the Insecta was revised by Latreille, 

 and embodies his latest ideas on Nomenclature. Exhibits. Dr. Buckell, a batch of 

 ova of Ennomos angularia; he also exhibited a batch of ova of Melanippe fluctuata as 

 being in many respects typical of Geometrid ova, viz., of an oval shape and scattered 

 in deposition. The ova of E. angularia, on the contrary, were cylindrical, tapering 

 slightly both towards base and apex, and were indented at the latter extremity ; they 

 were, moreover, deposited in large batches, slightly overlapping one another. Mr. 

 Morris, an example of M. galatea from Swanage, having the white marginal spots on 

 all the wings extremely indistinct ; also A. betularia var. doubledayaria from Scarboro' 

 and a 9 example of A. paphia tending towards the valezina form, from the New 

 Forest. Mr. Dewey, examples of D. orion, and an hermaphrodite specimen of L. 

 icarus, from Eastbourne ; also a preserved larva of T. miniosa. Mr. Riches, two 

 specimens of S. fagi from Epping Forest, one of them being an example of the dark 

 var. ; he stated that both of these specimens had been taken from young trees. 

 Mr. Lane, series of S. tilia from North London. Mr. Heasler, a specimen of L. 

 phragmitidis, bred from a pupa found on the Barking marshes ; also examples of 

 Harpalus rotundicollis from the same locality ; he stated that the occurrence of this 

 species at Barking was rather unexpected, the locality given by Fowler being the Isle 



