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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



May 5th, 1886.— Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Life- 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. William Saunders, the President of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, was present as a visitor. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society, viz. : — The Rev. E. N, 

 Bloomfield, M.A., Mr. Frederick Fitch, Mr. A. J. Rose, and Mr. "William E. 

 Nicholson. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a large and spiny lepidopterous larva which he 

 had received some years ago from the late Andrew Swanzy, who obtained it 

 in Western Africa. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a number of Coleoptera, recently obtained in the 

 Isle of Wight, including Apion Sorbi. 



Mr. Crowley exhibited four specimens of Leto Venus, a large moth belong- 

 ing to the family Hepialida, from Natal. 



Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited a long series of Cidaria immanata from 

 Kent, Surrey, and other southern counties, Perthshire, Isle of Man, Isle of 

 Arran, the Orkneys, and Shetlands. He also exhibited C, russata from 

 various localities in the South of England, and from Perthshire, Argyllshire, 

 and the Islands of Arran, Lewis, and Hoy. Mr. Yaughan further exhibited 

 varieties of C, suffumata from Dover and Darlington. 



Prof. Westwood commented on the interesting nature of the exhibition of 

 of C. immanata, and stated that he had never before seen such a wonderful 

 collection of varieties of a single species. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited for Mr. G. Lewis, living specimens of Paussus 

 Favieri (Fairm.), lately collected in Portugal by Mr. Lewis. 



The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited StapAylinus latelricola and Quedius 

 truncicola, both from the New Forest. 



The Secretary exhibited, for Mons. H. de la Cuisine, of Dijon, coloured 

 drawings, life-size, of a variety of Urania Croesus, and a variety of Papilio 

 Memnon ; and Prof. Westwood made some observations on them. 



Mr. G. Elisha exhibited specimens of Antispila Pfeiferella, together with 

 the cases, and the leaves mined by the larvse. 



Mr. J. W. Slater read a paper " On the Origin of Colours in Insects," in 

 which he showed that the assertions of Mr. Grant Allen, that all brightly 

 coloured insects were flower-haunting species, were incorrect ; and that many 

 brilliantly coloured insects were carnivorous. Mr, M'Lachlan said that the 



