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the announcement of the results of the election of the Officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year. 



In the unavoidable absence of the President and the fact that 

 there was no presidential address, Mr. Hy. J. Turner read a series 

 of extracts showing the views of the non-entomological world on 

 entomologists and the objects of their study. 



The following is a list of the members elected as Oflficers and 

 Council of the Society for the Session 1916-17. 



Pre>iuient.—'H.y. 3. Turner, F.E.S. 



Vice-j,resi(lentt.—E. Adkin, F.E.S., and A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Treasurer.— T. W. Hall, F.E.S. 



Librarian. — A. W. Dods. 



Curator. — W. West (Greenwich). 



Editor of Proceedings. — Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. 



Hon. Secretary.— ^io^nley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Council.—^. E. Ashby, F.E.S., B. S. Curwen, F. W. Frohawk, 

 F.E.S., M.B.O.U., W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., D. R. Morford, W. G. 

 Sheldon. F.E.S.. F. H. Stallman, A. E. Tonge, F.E.S,, C. B. 

 Williams, B.A., F.E.S. 



Votes of thanks were accorded to the President, Treasurer, Secre- 

 taries and other officers. 



Ordinary Meeting. 

 Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., Pres^ident, in the chair. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a copy of Brongniart's History of Fossil 

 Insects, calling particular attention to the plates containing details 

 of the huge dragon fly, Met/aneura monyi, which measured quite two 

 feet in expanse of wing. 



Mr. C. B. Williams remarked upon the wonderful state of preser- 

 vation of species of thrips in the amber of Konigsberg. It was 

 quite possible to examine the details with a microscope up to ^in. 

 and find even the minute hairs just as perfect to-day as they were 

 in the living specimens. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited specimens of the three species of Caliyo 

 occurring in Trinidad, viz., C. braziliensis sub-sp. minor, Kaye, C. 

 ilioneus sub-sp. salt us, Kaye, and 0. teucer sub-sp. insulanut. There 

 had been great confusion between the first and last of these. Mr. 

 Kaye's sub-species minor had been sunk by Stichel as synonymous 

 with his C. teucer sub-sp. insulanux, but Lord Rothschild, who has 



