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Entomological Society, August 5.—Mr. Frederick Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—The President announced the death of Mr. Ferdinand Grut, the Hon. Librarian of the Society, and commented on the valuable services which the deceased gentleman had rendered the Society for many years past.—Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., exhibited Japyx solifugus, from the Eastern Pyrenees, and stated that in his opinion it was a connecting link between the Thysanura and Dermaptera. He also exhibited pupæ of Dytiscus marginalis; one of these was perfectly developed, with the exception that it retained the larval head: this was owing to the larva having received a slight injury to the head. Dr. Sharp also exhibited specimens of Ophonus puncticollis and allied species, and said that Thomson's characters of the three Swedish species, O. puncticollis, O. brevicollis, and O. rectangulus, applied well to our British examples, and separated them in a satisfactory manner. Thomson's nomenclature, however, would, he thought, prove untenable, as the distinguished Swede described our common puncticollis as a new species under the name of rectangulus.—Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a bleached specimen of Epinephelejanira, having the right fore-wing of a creamy white, blending into pale smoky brown at the base; also a long and varied series of E. hyperanthus, from the New Forest and Dorking. The specimens from the former locality were considerably darker and more strongly marked than those from the chalk. Amongst the specimens was a variety of the female with large lanceolate markings on the under side, taken in the New Forest, and a female from Dorkirig with large, clearly defined white-pupilled spots on the upper side. Mr. Frohawk further exhibited drawings of varieties of the pupæ of E. hyperanthus, and also a large specimen of a variety of the female of Euchloë cardamines, bred from ova obtained in South Cork, with the hind wings of an ochreous-yellow colour. Coloured drawings illustrating the life-history of the specimen in all its stages were also exhibited.—M. Sergé Alphéraky communicated a paper entitled “On some cases of Dimorphism and Polymorphism among Palæarctic Lepidoptera.”
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Societies and Academies. Nature 44, 359–360 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044359a0
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