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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 



SOCIETY. 



September %7tfi'.—T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. G. Elisha exhibited Eupithecia extensaria and other species. Mr. Anld, 

 an example of Cattimorpha her a, which he stated he took in South Devon, 

 flying in the sunshine, also two examples of Vanessa io, with additional 

 ocelli. Mr. R. Adkin, Thera simulate bred from larvae taken in Ireland; 

 Thera firmata, bred from larvae taken in the New Forest ; and a living larva 

 of Bellephila galii. Mr. Jagar, three specimens of Callimorpha hera, bred 

 from ova obtained from a specimen taken in 1887, also a fine series of SHU 

 ftia anomald. Mr. Tugwell, living larvae of D. galii, and called attention to 

 the variation in colour of the larvae shown : he remarked that this year the 

 larvae of this species had been exceedingly plentiful, Mr. Gibb and himself 

 having taken 19G in a district extending from St. Margaret's Bay to within 

 a mile or so of Ramsgate. 



October XXih. — 'The President in the chair. Messrs. H. Bennett, of 

 Hastings, and E. D. Y, Pode, of Ivybridge, South Devon, were elected mem- 

 bers. Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited species of British Eossorial-Hymenoptera : 

 CeratopJiorus morio, and its rare var. anthr acinus, taken in his garden at 

 Peckham. and Nysson dimidratus, from Chobham. Mr. R. Adkin, larva of 

 Eetinia resinella, and contributed notes. Mr. Jager, two examples of 

 Vanessa io, with additional ocelli ; Argynnis paphia, with white blotches on 

 the wings ; a variety of Satyrus semele, with types of many other species, and 

 contributed notes. Mr. Carpenter, varieties of Vanessa- atalanta and Ampy- 

 phyra pyramidea. Mr. Elisha, bred examples of Cidaria reticulata. Mr. 

 Tugwell, Callimorpha hera, bred from the same batch of ova as those of Mr. 

 Jager's ; also Cramhus alpinellus and Anerastia farrella, from King's Lynn. 

 — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



The Annual Exhibition of this Society was held at " The Bridge House/' 

 London Bridge, S.E., on Wednesday and Thursday, 17th and 18th October 

 last. The first evening being considered a private view, not more than eight 

 hundred visitors attended, but on the second evening, when the exhibition 

 was open free by complimentary ticket, there was an attendance of over 

 seventeen hundred visitors. 



The exhibits were very numerous and more varied than in former years. 

 Among the principal exhibitors were Mr. R. McLachlan with British Caddis 

 Flies, also European Neuroptera, chiefly Ascalaphidae and Nemopteridse, 

 and specimens of plants infested by the Chinese wax insect. Mr. T. R. Bil- 

 lups, British Coleoptera, Hemiptera-Heteroptera and Hemiptera-Homoptera, 



