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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



April !9tL — The meeting was very numerously attended, it being the 

 annual distribution night. A very lars;e number of specimens were brought 

 up for this purpose, and most of the members acquired some useful specimens. 

 Among the exhibits must be mentioned a set of four eggs, three small ones 

 of various sizes being contained in the larger one ; also abnormal forms of 

 the ordinary hazel nut and specimens of the gall of the ground ivy, these 

 were both exhibited by Mr. Hiliman, who kindly presented them to the 

 Society, together with various shells and a skeleton of the head of the dor- 

 mouse. Mr. Ranee also gave a good selection of shells. Mr. Hollis exhibited 

 a long series each of S. illustraria and S. illunaria, the latter being very fine. 

 — J. Russell and E. Anderson, Joint Hon. Sees. 



SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 



SOCIETY. 



March 22nd, 1888. — T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. E. Knight, C. J. Montague, J. E. Lloyd, W. Roots, and R. Pier- 

 point were elected members. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a specimen of Polyommatus phlceas, with ocellus 

 on under surface of left wing, similar in character to the marginal ocelli on 

 the under surface of anterior wings, and an example of Papilio bianos, with 

 a patch of the colour and ornamentation proper to under surface of hind- 

 wings on the under surface of the right fore- wing. The Polyommatus was 

 captured by Mr. South in North Devon, in 1881, and the Papilio by Mr. 

 Leach's collector in China, in 1887. Mr. Tutt, specimens of Leucania 

 pudorina, taken by Mr. W. Earren, of Cambridge, one closely resembling 

 Hubner's gray type, one the variety striata of Staudinger, one resembling 

 Hubner's figure of pudorina, the others being intermediate forms. Mr. White, 

 preserved larvse ; also imagines of the genus Acronycta, for the purpose of 

 exhibiting the difference of character in the larvae and the close resemblance 

 of the moths, which he stated was so strong in the well known instance of 

 A, tridens and A. psi. Mr. White said he should be pleased to receive, ova 

 of any species of this genus, for the purpose of studying the affinity of the 

 group, it would be interesting to ascertain if the larvse varied in the different 

 stages, and whether there was a much closer resemblance in the final stage. 

 Mr. South remarked that in the earlier stages the larva of A. psi could not be 

 separated from the larvse of A. tridens. Mr J. Jenner Weir exhibited British 

 and continental specimens Anthocaris cardamines, and remarked that he had 

 observed for some years a difference between the latter so far as he had been 

 able to examine them, and those captured by himself in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, 

 and Hants, which had the orange spot on the upper wings reaching but 



