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Mr. Turner, varieties of Boarmia rhomboidaria, Haclena protca, Strenia clathrata, 

 Melcuiippe fluctuata, Endotricha flammealis. Mr. Gurney, Geometra smaragdaria. Nyssia 

 hispidaria, Numeria pulveraria. Dr. Sequeira, a box of Lepidoptera from, the New 

 Forest. Mr. Bayne, varieties of Hepialus lupulinus, including one cream-white 

 specimen, a variety of Thera variata, Epione advenaria. Mr. Gates, confluent forms 

 of Zygoena filipcndulce, also Thecla betulce, Lyccena agestis var. Artaxerxes, Hespcria 

 actceon. Mr. Manley, varieties of Sphinx ligustri, Chelonia caja, Abraxas grossulariata, 

 Ypsipetes elutata. Mr. Goldthwaite, some splendid varieties of Abraxas grossular lata, 

 Angerona prunaria, and many o;her geometrae. Mr. Lusby, Sesia myopceformis, 

 Chelonia villica, and a pink variety of Zygcena filipendulce. Mr. C. B. Smith, Acherontia 

 atropos, Ennomos autumnaria, Bombyx rubi. M. Conquest a series of Ennychia 

 octomaculalis , including a fine variety, and a series of Bankia argentula. Mr. Williams, 

 a series of Chcerocampa porcellus. Mr. Raine, a large number of preserved larvae, also 

 a pink variety of Smerinthus populi. Mr. Milton, Apatura iris, Thecla W. album, 

 Lasiocampa quercifolia, Arctia fuliginosa, Sesia bembeciformis, Diphthera orion, Hydrous 

 caraboides, Prionus coriarius, Hydrophihis piceus, and other coleoptera ; Gryllotalpa 

 vulgaris (mole cricket), Ranatra linearis, Ledra aurita, Centrotus cornutus, Sirex gigas. 

 Mr. Elliman, variety of Liparis auriflua, Triphcena janthina, T. interjecta, Luperina 

 cespitis, Cosmia affinis, and the following Coleoptera : — Quedius lateralis, Lycoperdina 

 bovistce, Otiorhynchus tenebricosus, Donacia bidens, Philonthus splendcns, Ilybius fenestratus, 

 all taken near Tring in 1890. Mr. Lewcock, a collection of Curculionid^, 

 showing nearly the whole of the genera comprised in this division of Coleoptera- 

 M Heasler also exhibited Coleoptera, including Oxypoda spectabilis, Deleaster dichrous, 

 Philonthus splendcns. P. sanguinolentus, P, decorus, and six species of Ocypus, mostly 

 taken in 1890, in the London district. Mr. Cripps, Gramoptera praeusta, Strangalia 

 melanura, S. armata, Liophlceus nubilus, Molytes coronatus, and other Coleoptera from 

 Brockenhurst and Chattenden. Mr. Harper, a living albino specimen of the Common 

 Linnet (Fringilla eannabina, L, — G. A. Lswcock and A. U. Battley, Hon. Sees. 



THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY ASSOCIATION. 



2yd, October, 1890. — W. H. Tugwell, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. P. J. Crane, of Chingford and G. Wallace, of Forest Hill, were elected 

 members. 



Mr. Bouttell exhibited two series of Ennomos angularia, one bred from larvae fed on 

 Elm and the other on sallow, he stated that those fed on Elm were by accident kept 

 without food for some time after the first moult and in consequence most of the 

 brood perished, nineteen reached the perfect stage of which only two were females. 

 Mr. E. Joy bred examples and pupa of Plusia festucce. Mr, Tugwell, a box of 

 lepidoptera collected by Mr. Lachlan Gibb in Canada. Mr. R. Adkin, specimens 

 of Tortrix piceana, from Surrey and Hampshire, and expressed an opinion that the 

 species was more widely distributed than was generally supposed. Mr South 

 remarked that the species had beeh known in England for many years. Mr Fenn 

 thought it had been overlooked owing to the difficulty in obtaining the larvae, which 



