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LONDON. Entomological Society, October 2.—The Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, president, in the chair.—Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited a long series of Buprestis sanguinea, Fabr., from Albarracin, Spain, showing the remarkable dimorphism of this species.—Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited on behalf of the Rev. H. S. Gorham, of Shirley Warren, a specimen of the scarce beetle, Hister marginatus. He also exhibited a number of rare Coleoptera from the New Forest, including Velleius dilatatus, F., from hornets' nests, Anthaxia nitidula, L., Agrilus sinuatus, Ol.—not taken for many years—Agrilis viridis, L., Platydema violaceum, F., a species also not recorded recently, and Collydium elongatum, F., one specimen taken in the burrows of Melasis buprestoides and another in the burrows of Scolytus intricatus. Mr. Champion said that Mr. George Lewis associated Velleius with Cossus and not with hornets.—Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited varieties and aberrations of Lycaena corydon taken during August at Dover, and a series of Angerona prunaria (bred June and July), the results of four years' interbreeding, showing a wide range of coloration.—Prof. T. Hudson Beare exhibited a specimen of Medon castaneus, Grav., taken at the edge of a pond in Richmond Park.—Mr. A. Harrison exhibited a series of Amphidasys betularia bred from parents taken in the New Forest in 1900, including six gynandromorphous specimens.—Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a male specimen of Thamnotrizon cinereus, L., one of the long-horned grasshoppers taken by Mr. F. W. Terry at Morden, near Wimbledon, and called attention to a very interesting abnormality displayed by the specimen in possessing two pairs of auditory organs instead of a single pair, the second pair being situated on the tibia: of the middle legs in a position corresponding with that of the normal pair on the fore-legs.—Mr. F. Merrifield exhibited a series of O. antiqua much darker than the type, bred from pups placed in a refrigerator five weeks and then exposed to a mean temperature of 48° F.—Mr. R. South communicated a paper by the late Mr. J. H. Leech, entitled “Lepidoptera-heterocera from China, Japan and Corea (Pyralidæ)”; Mr. G. C. Champion contributed notes and observations upon the sexual dimorphism of Buprestis sanguinea.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 65, 22–24 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065022b0
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