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therapne, and many others. Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited for Mr. G. A. J. Rothney, 

 a number of Methoca ichnewnonoides, Latr. (female), taken at Boxhill, Sussex, showing 

 great variation from the usual large black and red form to a small and nearly black 

 one. Dr. D. Sharp exhibited a pupa of Galleria melonella, on which the eggs of a 

 parasitic Hymenopteron, as be believed, had been deposited while the insect was in 

 the cocoon. He also exhibited, from the collection of Alexander Fry, Esq., the 

 hitherto unique Aprostoma planifrons, Westw. The genus was correctly assigned by 

 Westwood to the Colydiida, though described as a Brenthid. Mr. J. J. Walker 

 exhibited the following species of Halobates, viz. : — H. sericeus, Esch., from the Pacific; 

 H. sobrinus, B. White, from Marquesas Islands; H. wullerstorffi, Esch., from Mar- 

 quesas Islands ; H. princeps, White, from the China Sea ; and a female of H. wuller- 

 storffi, with ova attached. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher showed a variable series of 

 seventy-five Cymatophora or, bred in 1893 from larva from Sutherland, a series of 

 about forty C. ocularis bred-in from Oundle. Also a series of thirty-three moths, all 

 females, supposed to be hybrids between C. ocularis male and C. or female, from the 

 above stock in each case, bred as a second brood in August and September, 1893. 

 He stated that he placed the reputed parents in a muslin sleeve on a branch of 

 Populus nigra, and did not open the sleeve until the resulting larvae required fresh 

 food. To the best of his belief the female parent had no chance of pairing with a 

 male of her own species. The supposed hybrids resembled the female parent, except 

 that both orbicular and reniform stigmata were very conspicuous, being pure white 

 filled up slightly with black, whereas in C. or they are usually inconspicuous and 

 the orbicular are sometimes wanting. Noue of the C. or bred had the stigmata 

 developed so fully as had the hybrids, which were most uniform in this respect. 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury exhibited a specimen of Leucania vitellina, taken at Brockenhurst 

 on August 24th, 1893, by Mrs. Hanbury and another taken by himself at Freshwater, 

 Isle of Wight, on September 7th ; also an extraordinary Gonepteryx rhamni, showing 

 red blotches at the tips of the fore-wings, taken by a gardener at Walthamstow, 

 Essex. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a gynandrous Argynnis paphia recently taken 

 in the New Forest by Mr. Cardew. Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a specimen of 

 Deilephila livornica recently caught at Christchurch, Hants. Mr. Elwes exhibited 

 and described two species of the genus CEneis Chionobas, Bdv.), CE. beani and OE. 

 alberta, from North America, which had not been previously described, and stated 

 that he had prepared, with Mr. Edwards's assistance, a revisiou of this very difficult 

 genus, which would be read at the November meeting. Mr. Osbert Salvin com- 

 municated a paper entitled " Description of a new genus and species {B aroma 

 brevicomis) of Papilionida from Mexico," and exhibited both sexes. Dr. Sharp read 

 a paper entitled " On the Cost and Value of Insect Collections." Mr. W. F. H. 

 Blandford, Mr. McLachlan. Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Waterhouse, and the President took 

 part in the discussion which ensued. Professor Auguste Forel communicated a 

 paper entitled " Formicides de l'Antille, St. Vincent, recoltees par. Mons. H. H. 

 Smith." Mr. W. F. H. Blandford read a paper entitled " Description of a New 

 Sub-family of the Scolytida." The President, Mr. Jacoby, and Mr. Waterhouse took 

 part in the discussion which ensued. 



October lUh. — Henry John Elwes, Esq., f.l.s., f.z.s., President, in the chair. 

 Professor C. H. Tyler Townsend, of the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited two Leucania vitellina 

 and one L. extranea, taken by Mr. B. W. Adkin in the Scilly Islands, in August, 1893. 

 Mr. R. South exhibited a specimen of Polyommatus bceticus, and a number of varieties- 

 of Chrysophanus phlceas, captured in Kent, in September last, by Mr. Sabine ; also a 

 curious variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, taken in Lancashire in May, 1893, by Mr. T. 

 Baynes ; a pallid variety of Vanessa urtica, taken by Mr. E. Cox in Monmouthshire, 

 in July, 1893 ; and a Triphcena pronuba, the right wings of which were typical, and the 



