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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



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Mr. Michael Yeatman Woolf, of 1, Marlborough Place, St. John's Wood, N.W., were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. G. C. Champion called attention to a supposed 

 new Longicorn beetle, described and figured by Herr A. F. Nonfried, of Rakonitz, 

 Bohemia, under the name of Callipogon friedlanderi, in the Berl. Ent. Zeitschr, 1892, 

 p. 22. He said that the supposed characters of the insect were due to the fact that 

 the head had been gummed on upside down ! He also exhibited an extensive 

 collection of Coleoptera and Hemiptera-Heteroptera made by himself in the island of 

 Corsica in May and June last. The Rev. Theodore Wood exhibited a variety of 

 Saturnia carpini, with semi-transparent wings, a large portion of the scales being 

 apparently absent, bred with several examples of the type-form at Baldock, Herts ; 

 also a pale variety of Smerinthus populi, which was said to have been bred, with 

 several similar specimens, from larvae marked with rows of red spots on both sides. 

 Mr. R. South exhibited a variety of Argynnis aglaia, approaching the form known as 

 var. charlotta, and a variety of Euchelia jacobaeae, in which the crimson costal streak 

 was continued along the outer margin almost to the inner margin, taken by Mr. 

 Fowler, at Ringwood, Hants, in 1893 ; a variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, taken by Mr. 

 Mead, in Epping Forest, in 1893 ; and a series of black and other forms of Phigalia 

 pedaria, bred during the present year from a black female captured last spring by 

 Mr. Rose, of Barnsley. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. C. B. Taylor, of Jamaica, a 

 beautifully coloured drawing of the larva of Papilio homerus, Fab. Mr. F. W. 

 Frohawk exhibited drawings showing the complete life-history of Argynnis aglaia and 

 A. adippe, every stage being figured ; also enlarged drawings of the segments of the 

 larvae in their first and last stages, showing the remarkable difference in structure. 

 Mr. Merrifield commented on the beauty of the drawings. Mr. G. C. Champion read 

 a paper entitled " On the Tenebrionidae collected in Australia and Tasmania by Mr. 

 J. J.Walker, R.N., during the voyage of H.M.ship' Penguin,' with descriptions of new 

 genera and species " ; and he exhibited the specimens comprised in the collection. 

 Mr. J. J. Walker and Colonel Swinhoe made some remarks on the paper. Mr. 

 Champion also read a paper entitled "An Entomological Excursion to Corsica," in 

 which he described an expedition to the mountains of that island in May and June, 

 1893, in company with Mr. R. S. Standen, Mr. A. H. Jones, Colonel Yerbury, R.A., 

 Mr. Lemann, Mr. Raine, and others. Mr. Osbert Salvin, Colonel Yerbury, and 

 Colonel Swinhoe took part in the discussion which ensued. Mr. Edward Saunders 

 communicated a paper entitled " A List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera collected by Mr. 

 Champion in Corsica, with a description of one new species." Mr. W. F. Kirby read 

 a paper entitled " Notes on Dorydium westwoodi, Buchanan White with observations 

 on the use of the name Dorydium." Mr. Charles B. Taylor communicated a paper 

 entitled "Description of the larva and pupa of Papilio homerus, Fab."— H. Goss, 

 Hon. Sec. 



MANCHESTER CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



MARINE SHELLS FROM THE LOYALTY ISLANDS. 



The monthly meeting of the Manchester Conchological Society was held at Owens 

 College on Thursday evening, March 8th, Mr. D. Darbyshire, president, in the chair. 



Messrs. J. Cosmo Melvill and R. Standen contributed a joint paper on a collection of 

 Marine Shells from the Loyalty Islands, made by the Rev. J. Hadfield. The Loyalty 

 Islands, of which the three principal are Lifu, Mare, and Uvea, form part of the New 

 Caledonian Archipelago, and are situated east of the main isle, with its capital, Noumea, 

 being, therefore, not very far within the Tropic of Capricorn. Belonging to France, it is 

 not surprising that several eminent naturalists of that nation have made an especial study 

 of the fauna of this group, and many papers have appeared from their pens in the French 



