Scotland is considerable; a form occurs not infrequently in which 
the fore wings, and to a less extent the hind wings, are suffused with 
black. Cidaria populata was fairly common on the mountain sides 
flying over the heather; in some of the specimens the wing-markings 
were almost obliterated by a dark suffusion. Cidaria immanata was 
perhaps the most variable insect met with, in fact, no two specimens 
were exactly alike; the median area varied in colour from jet black to 
pure white; in the Shetland Isles a form is taken which is entirely 
different from any of those met with at Eannoch. 
Jan. 1 6th, 1894.—Exhibits :—Mr. Hill; a specimen of Catocala 
sponsa, having a suffusion of black scales near the apical angle of the 
left hind wing. Mr. Battley ; Cheimatobia brumata, of both sexes, the 
wings of the males showing considerable variation in the distinctness 
of the transverse lines. Mr. Clark ; Mixodia palustrana from Perth; 
also a specimen of Selenia lunaria, bred on Christmas Day. Mr. 
Nicholson; two larvas of Pararge egeria, about half-an-inch long, from 
a brood which is now hybernating indoors, on grass growing in a 
flower-pot. Mr. Bacot; living pupae of Taeniocampa munda. Mr. 
Riches ; Agrotis segetum, Mellinea circellaris and Anchocelis pistacina, from 
Salisbury ; the circellaris were rather dark. Mr. Southey; a fine series 
of Nonagria arundinis (typhae ) from Norfolk. Mr. Lane; Leucophasia 
sinapis from Reading, and Abraxas grossulariata. Mr. E. H. Taylor, of 
52, Mimosa Street, Fulham, was elected a member of the Society. 
Capt. B. Blaydes Thompson then read the following paper on :— 
The PRONUNCIATION and ACCENTUATION of 
CLASSICAL NAMES. 
There is nothing in what follows which can in any way lay claim 
to novelty. I have no new theory to propound, and the statements 
which I am about to make are neither new, nor do they in any way 
rest upon my authority. I do not, however, intend you to infer from 
this that they will not be new to you ; on the contrary, I have no doubt 
that you will be as much surprised as I was at some of the discoveries 
which I have made during the preparation of this paper, especially as 
regards the accentuation of both generic and trivial names. I approach 
the subject with considerable diffidence ; my object has been simply to 
compile and summarise, to the best of my ability, some of the leading 
points in this rather thorny subject, and to endeavour to make them 
sufficiently explicit to interest you. 
About thirty-five years ago numerous complaints appeared in the 
Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, from Lepidopterists as well as 
Coleopterists, of the difficulties with which they had to contend both 
in pronouncing and in accentuating the Latin names of insects, and 
notwithstanding the gigantic progress which has been made in educa- 
cation since 1850, such difficulties are still felt by many. There are not 
a few well-educated and intelligent men, whose classical education has 
not been very extensive; when such are tempted out of the beaten 
track of commerce by the allurements of science, and find themselves 
forced to cope with scientific nomenclature, the difficulties attending 
the study of whatever branch they may select are greatly increased. 
In consequence of the numerous synonyms in use amongst Lepi- 
