THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



March 7, 1888.-r-Dr. D. Sharp, President, in the chair 



Mr. Erederic Pennington, jun., of Broome Hall, Holmwood, Surrey; Mr. 

 W. Crush, of Westcombe Park, Blackheath, S.E. ; and Mr. J. P. Cregoe, of 

 Charleston, U.S.A., were elected Eellows. 



Mr. J. H. Leech exhibited, and made remarks on, a number of butterflies 

 forming part of the collection made for him during last summer by Mr. Pratt, 

 at Kiukiang, Central China. The specimens exhibited included examples of 

 Papilio Macilentus (hitherto only recorded from Japan), varieties of P. Sar- 

 pedon, and a supposed new species of Papilio ; a series of Sericinus telamon ; 

 Acrcea vesta (varieties) ; Charaxes narcceus, and var. mandarinus (the latter 

 being the common form at Kiukiang) ; Palceonympha qpalina, Butl. ; new or 

 unknown species of Lethe, Apatura, and Neptis ; and a series of Argynnis 

 paphia, with the var. valezina of the female. Mr. Leech stated that all the 

 females of A. paphia taken at Kiukiang belonged to the var. valezina, the 

 typical form of the species being unknown there. 



Mr. Poulton expressed his interest in Mr. Leech's statement that valezina 

 was the only form of the female of Argynnis paphia known at Kiukiang, and 

 said he considered this fact would probably throw a new light on the question 

 of the dimorphism of the species. 



Mr. J enner Weir said he had in the course of some years obtained a series 

 of forms intermediate between the typical female and the variety valexina. 

 Mr. H. Goss, Mr. M'Lachlan, Dr. Sharp, and Mr. Leech continued the dis- 

 cussion. 



Mr. Champion exhibited, for Mr. J. J. Walker, E.N., about 950 species 

 of Coleoptera, recently collected by the latter near Gibraltar. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 called attention to the large number of water-beetles included in Mr. Walker's 

 collection. Mr. Kirby sugested that the attention of the Imperial Institute 

 should be called to the interest attaching to the exhibition of local collections 

 of insects from British Colonies and possessions. 



Mr. Verrall exhibited living specimens of Aspidomorpha sanctce-crucis, and 

 another species unnamed, from the caves of Elephanta. 



Mr. Slater exhibited specimens of a species of weevil which had been doing 

 much damage to maize sent to the Colonial Exhibition. 



Mr. W. White read a paper on " Experiments upon the Colour-relation 

 between the pupse of Pieris rapce, and their immediate surroundings," which 

 comprised a detailed account and discussion of a series of observations carried 

 on at the author's instigation by Mr. G. C, Griffiths, of Bristol. The various 



