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A discussion ensued on the remarks made by Capt. Elwes, in which Mr. 

 M'Lachlan, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Champion, Mr. Kirby, and others took part. 



The Rev. W. W . Fowler exhibited a specimen of Cathormiocerus socius, 

 taken a few years ago at Sandown, Isle of Wight. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited specimens of Cathormiocerus maritimus and 

 Platytarsus hirtus. 



Mr. F. Grut said he was requested by Mons. Peringuey, of Cape Town, to 

 announce that the latter was engaged on a monograph of the genus Hipporr- 

 hinus, and that he would be glad to receive specimens and other assistance 

 from British entomologists. 



Mr. Gervase F. Mathew communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of 

 new species of Bhopalocera from the Solomon Islands/' 



Mr. George T. Baker communicated the following papers : — " Description 

 of a new species of the Lepidopterous genus Carama, together with a few 

 notes on the genus" ; and " Description of a new genus of Rhopalocera allied 

 to Tfecla.' J ~~H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 



SOCIETY. 



February Ztoh, 1887.— R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. J. E. Kelsall, J. Lea, and E. B. Nevinson were elected members. 

 Mr. Tutt exhibited Tephrosia crepuscularia, Hub., from Hungary, and re- 

 marked that he was unable to obtain any forms of T. biundularia from there, 

 although he had received it from Germany ; he further showed continential 

 forms of Agrotidce and specimens of Acidalia perochraria, Fisch., and contri- 

 buted notes. Mr. R. South Lobophora polycommata, Hub. (bred). Dr. 

 Rendall Calocampa solidaginis, Hub., from Cannock Chase. Mr. Tugwell, 

 English and Scotch forms of Lyccena Adonis, [bellargus, Rott) . Mr. Adkin, 

 Notodonta ziczac, L., Dianthmcia capsophila, Dup., Aplecta herbida (prasina, 

 Hub), and Eupithecia pumilata, Hub., from County Cork, with specimens 

 from various English localities for comparison. 



In the Mollusca Dr. Rendall exhibited British and land and fresh-water 

 shells, and Mr. Cockerell Succinea putris, L., sub-sp. S. parvula, Drouet, a 

 small shell of the " putris" group not previously recorded as British, col- 

 lected by Mr. J. H. James, at St. Columb, Porth. Cornwall. 



Mr. J. J. Weir read a paper " On Melanism," and said he had read and 

 carefully studied Mr. Dobree's paper on this subject, and so far as he knew 

 there was no connection between the tendency to Melanic variation in Lepi- 

 doptera, and the high latitude they might have been produced in ; but on the 

 contrary he found that so far as the Lepidoptera of Russia in Europe were 



