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SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY. 



March i%th, 1889. — T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. J. E. Cutts, of Watford ; W. T. Sturt, of Kingston ; and W. G. Macmurdo, 

 of Wansted, were elected members. Mr. Hawes exhibited a variety of Epinephels 

 janira, with additional spots on the primaries, and two varieties of Zygana filipendula , 

 both having the central spots and the upper spot of the outer pair absent, and the 

 inner pair of spots being very much contracted ; the two examples were captured in 

 July, 1876, near Oakleigh Park. Mr. Tugwell, specimens of Deilephila galii, bred by 

 him from a large number of larvae taken at Deal, in 1S88, together with continental 

 examples of the species, and remarked that the most probable explanation of the 

 unusual abundance of D. galii, last season, was that of immigration. Mr. Billups 

 exhibited exotic Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Homoptera, and three species of 

 Coleoptera : — Sagra buquetii, from Java ; S. chrysochlora, from Australasia ; and 

 5. cceruleata, from Madagascar. Mr. W. West, two specimens of Calosoma sycophanta, 

 (male and female), one captured 1873, Freshwater Bay, and the other in Greenwich 

 Park, 1888. The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibition of micro- 

 scopical objects by the members. 



April nth, 1889. — The President in the chair. Messrs. A. W. Dennis, of 

 Kingsland; and G. E. Dench, of Tufnell Park, were elected members. Mr. Tugwell 

 exhibited a bred series of Nyssia hispidaria, shewing extreme form of dark coloration, 

 and a bred series of Taniocampa leucographa. Mr. R. Adkin, Euchoromia mygindana, 

 E. arbutella, Coccyx nemorivaga, bred from larvae in shoots of the common bearberry 

 Arctostaphylos ura-ursi, from Forres. Mr. South, series of Plusia iota, including two 

 of the variety Percontationis ; P. pulchrina, and made some remarks on the differences 

 between the two species ; two series of Epunda lichenea, one from Plymouth and the 

 other from Portland ; the specimens from the first mentioned locality were fairly 

 typical, the others were small greenish gray specimens with but little if any of the 

 pink or reddish tinge characteristic of the type ; Eubolia mensuraria and Fidonia 

 piniaria, from various localities, and made observations thereon. Mr. Jenner Weir, 

 some butterflies which he had desquamated by the " Waterhouse process," and 

 remarked that although the scales of the wings were dissolved yet the hairs remained 

 unaffected, and that the green pattern on the wings of such butterflies as Papillio 

 lurhinus and Zirumala peliverana, retained their colour after the desquamation, the 

 markings were not merely superficial in these insects. A paper, " On the Origin of 

 the genus Anthocharis," by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, was read. Mr. Cockerell was of 

 opinion that the genus Anthocharis was by no means an ancient genus, and that it 

 arose directly from an old Pieris stock and that probably on the American continent. 

 Mr. Weir, Mr. South, and Mr. Tutt made some observations on Mr. Cockerell's 

 paper. Mr. Wilkinson exhibited several species of scorpions, and Mr. W. White 

 examples of some of the larger species of Arachnida. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



