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and more important the study of the order Insecta had become since it 

 had been treated as part of the great science of Biology, and appreciated 

 the fact that Entomology meant something more than merely the collec- 

 tion and systematic arrangement of insects. In the course of the evening 

 a number of exhibits were displayed. — F. N. Pierce. Liverpool, Hon. 

 Sec. 



THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 



SOCIETY. 



January nth, 1894. J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited several series of Thera juniper ata, L., from 

 various Scotch localities, contrasting them with those exhibited at the 

 meeting previous from Purley. 



Mr. Oldham showed a varied series of Hy hernia defoliaria, L., and 

 H. aurantiaria, Esp., from Epping Forest, and a specimen of the local 

 Libellula quadrimaculata, L., from Cambridgeshire. 



Mr. South, some remarkable varieties of Cerastis vacinit, L., taken 

 in Kent and Surrey; with British and Continental specimens and varieties 

 of C. spadicea, Hb., and a specimen of Acronyeta aceris, var. infuscata, 

 Haw. 



Mr. W. A. Pearce exhibited some very beautiful Rhopalocera from 

 Alleghany, U.S.A., taken in 1893, viz., Papilio asterias, Fab. ; P.turnus, 

 L. ; P. philener, L. ; P. troilus, L. ; Limenitis dissippus, Gat. ; L. ursula, 

 Fab. ; and Apatura elyton, Bd. ; Mr. Weir mentioned that the female of P. 

 turnus was dimorphic, and that L. dissippus was the mimic of Amosia 

 plexippus. 



Mr. Auld, Vanessa io, which had been cleaned by Dr. Knagg with 

 methylated ether, and which had regained its pristine appearance. 



Mr. Tugwell sent for exhibition a long series of Spilosoma hcbricepeda, 

 Esp., and its various varieties and local races, especially of var. radiata, 

 St., =• zatima, Cr , and communicated notes, in which he described the 

 York city form as var. fasciata. He had also sent for exhibition a pair 

 oiPlusia moneta, Fab., bred by Mr. Matthews ; two varieties of Artiavillica^ 

 L.> from Harwich ; three dark Irish forms of Agrotis lucernea, L. ; 

 a long series of Liparis monacha, L., from New Forest ova, some of which 

 were very dark ; six of the dark Sheffield form of Boarmia repomdata, 

 L. ; vars. of LyccEna segon, Schiff, from Westmoreland ; four Dicra?inra 

 bicuspiS) Bork., from Tilgate ; a series of Callimorpha hera, L., bred from 

 Starcross ova ; a pair of Pachetra leucophea, View., taken by Mr. Han- 

 bury on the North Downs ; several Noctna co?2flua, from Shetland ; six of 

 the remarkable dark Irish form of Campta bilineaia, L. ; and a series of 

 Notodonta dromedarius, L. — Hy. L. Turner, Hon. (Report) Sec. 



