192 THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



i October 



THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY ASSOCIATION. 



September nth, 1890.— J. jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President in the chair. 



Mr, Robertson exhibited a living larva of Acherbutia atropos, from near Bognor. 

 Mr. Oldham, a very light specimen of Polyommatus phlaas, a dark form of Argynnis 

 euphrosyne ; also examples of many other species including Hesperia lineola, from the 

 fens of Huntingdon. Mr. Croker, Argyrolepia hartmanniana, from the banks of the 

 Lett. Mr. Fenn remarked that the species occurred all round London on the trunks 

 of willow trees. Mr. Wellman, Bryophila glandifera, Dianthacia albimacula, Plusia 

 fesiuca, bred from pupae received from Cambridge, also living larva; of Aeronycta 

 Mr. J. A. Cooper, dark specimens of Bryophila perla, from Folkstone. Mr. 

 Carpenter, a specimen of Argynnis paphia, with the right under wing almost 

 colourless, a variety of Argynnis aglaia, with the spots on the underside blending to- 

 gether, also a series of Epinephele hyperanthus, showing considerable variation. Mr. 

 R. Adkin, bred specimens of Emmelesia decolorata, from Ireland, larger and more de- 

 fined in colour than those usually taken. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, Vanessa Antiopa, from Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, 

 and called attention to the irroration of the borders with black, a feature specially 

 noticeable in American specimens of the species ; also three species of Cetonia from 

 Syria, viz -.-—Cetonia opaca, Fb., C. floricola, var. ignicollis, (Dej) Gory and Peach, 

 and C. impavida, Janson. With reference to the last-named species Mr. Cockerell 

 stated the specimens appeared to be specifically identical with Indian species, 

 as they appeared to agree in all essential with an example in the British 

 Museum from Aden, named by Mr. Janson. The distribution of the species 

 therefore appeared to be India, Aden and Syria. Mr. Cockerell also exhibited two 

 examples of Trichodcs from Syria, one of which he stated apparently agreed with T 

 syriacus, Del., as described in Spinola's Monograph but was considerably larger, the 

 other seemed to be a variety T . favarius, Hb. Mr. Oldham exhibited a specimen of 

 Sirex gigas, taken in theHigh Road at Woodford. 



Mr. T. R. Biilups asked whether the large number of Vespa vulgaris, had been 

 noticed by members ; when sweeping at Hurley Heath for Hymenoptera, he ob- 

 tained eight to a dozen at every sweep of the net. Mr. Rice remarked that near 

 Ochley within an area of 200 yards he had counted 30 nests. Mr. South said that in 

 1879 which was a similar year to the present one, wasps were plentiful all over the 

 country. 



Mr. Biilups reported that on the 16th of August while collecting in company with 

 Mr. Beaumont at Oxshot he saw a male of the Golden Oriole (Oriolus galbida), both 

 he and Mr. Beaumont saw it again a short time afterwards and subsequently they 

 both saw it in company with its female companion. Mr. Cooper said on the August 

 Bank holiday he heard the note of the Golden Oriole at Sevenoaks, but he did not 

 see the bird, the bird had bred in Norfolk for the last two years. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited the head of a duck having the lower mandible projecting 

 and which he stated had been bred in this way. Mr. Cooper mentioned having shot 

 a Starling in which the lower mandible was considerably shorter than the upper one, 



