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THE YOUNG NATUEALIST. 



Mr. White exhibited preserved specimens of the larvae of two species of the 

 genus Catocala, for the purpose of calling attention to some remarkable pro- 

 cesses on the underside; and Prof. Meldola and Mr. J. Jenner Weir made 

 some observations on them. 



Mr. S. Edwards exhibited an unknown exotic spider, found in his orchid 

 house at Blackheath. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited two remarkable varieties of the male of Argynnis 

 papkia, taken in Sussex and Hampshire respectively. 



Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions and 

 remarks upon five new Noctuid Moths from Japan." 



The Eev. W. W. Eowler read a paper on " New genera and species of 

 Languriidee" chiefly from specimens in the collections of the British Museum, 

 the Cambridge Museum, Mr. Lewis's Ceylon collection, and the collection of 

 the Eev. H. S. Gorham. In alluding to a species described in this paper, 

 Mr. Champion remarked that he had taken the elongate form, and also the 

 broader form, on trees as well as on low herbage in Central America. Dr. 

 Sharp remarked that Mr. Lewis's experience of the habits of the species in 

 Ceylon appeared to have been different. 



Dr. Sharp read a paper " On some proposed transfers of generic names." 

 This paper called attention to a practice advocated by Mons, Des Gozis, 

 which was apparently extending on the Continent, of transferring the names of 

 some of the commonest genera to other genera. The extreme confusion 

 caused by the practice was pointed out, and the author showed briefly that 

 the theory on which Mons. Des Gozis' s system was based was as unsound as 

 the practice itself was objectionable. Considerable discussion followed the 

 reading of this paper, iu which the Eev. W. W. Fowler, Mr. Waterhouse, 

 Mr. M'Lachlan, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Pascoe, and Mr. Dunning took part. The 

 last-named gentleman said that the discussion reminded him of a similar one, 

 on the application of the law of priority to genera, which took place at a 

 meeting of the Society nearly twenty years ago. The project was then con- 

 demned as unanimously as that of Mons. Des Gozis had been that evening ; 

 and he trusted that entomologists would hear no more of it. — H. Goss, 

 Secretary. 



HAGGEESTON ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



At the meeting held March 25th, there was a good attendance. Mr* 

 Clark exhibited two specimens of flyssia hispidaria, and also specimens of 

 Hybernia leucopkearia, Progemmaria and Rupicapraria all captured the pre- 

 vious day. Mr. Clark recorded that II. leucophearia and A. cescularia were 

 in boundless profusion at Eichmond Park. He had captured '23 females of 



