1889. 



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Halyzia becomes the generic name of ocellata, iS-guttata, 1 ^-guttata, 

 16- guttata, 12- guttata, 22-punctata, and i\-punctata ; the remaining species, 

 which comprise the genus Coccinella, are variabilis (as decempunctata), 

 11-punctata, ^-punctata, 7 -punctata, labilis (as distincta), and hieroglyphica. 

 Alterations are abundant, but the foregoing is given as a specimen of 

 the extent of Dr. Sharp's labour in the revision of the British list. 



As this is the latest complete edition of the list of British species, 

 I propose to deal with localities in the next paper. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



July 3rd, 1889— The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Rev. W. A. Hamilton (Calcutta), and Mr. H. W. Vivian (Glenafon, Taiback, 

 South Wales), were elected Fellows of the Society. 



A letter was read from Mr. E. J. Atkinson, Chairman of the Trustees of the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, in which assistance was asked from British entomologists 

 in working out various orders of Indian insects. 



The following motion, which had previously been unanimously passed at the 

 meeting of the Council, was read to the society : — " That papers containing des- 

 criptions of isolated species widely remote in classification of distribution, are, as a 

 rule, undesirable for publication, as tending to create unnecessary difficulties for 

 faunistic or monographic workers." Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Elwes, Dr. 

 Sharp, and others took part in the discussion which followed. 



Mr. J. W. Slater exhibited a doubtful specimen of Arctia mendica, L., which 

 appeared as if it might prove to be a hybrid between that species and A. lubricvpeda, L. 



Mr. M'Lachlan, on behalf of Prof. Klapalek, of Prague, who was present as a 

 visitor, exhibited preparations representing the life-history of Agriotypus armatns, 

 Walk., showing the curious appendages ot the case. Prof. Klapalek, in answer to 

 questions, described the transformations in detail. A discussion followed, in which 

 Mr. M'Lachlan and Lord Walsingham took part. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a specimen of an undescribed Chrysophanus, taken in 

 the Shan States, Upper Burmah, by Dr. Manders, which was very remarkable on 

 account of the low elevation and latitude at which it was found ; its only very near 

 ally appeared to be Polyommatus Li, Oberthur, from Western Szechuen, but there 

 was no species of the genus known in the Eastern Himalayas or anywhere in the 

 Eastern tropics. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a remarkable series of Arctia mendica, L., bred from 

 a small batch of eggs found on the same ground at Grimescar, Huddersfield, as the 

 batch from which the series he had previously exhibited before the Society was bred. 

 This year he had bred forty-five specimens, none of which were of the ordinary form 



