LINNEAX SOCIETY OF LONDON. 69 



Miss Ethel Mary Doidge, M.A., Mr. Thomas Bainhrigge 

 rietcher, and Mr. John Gervaise Turnbull, were elected Fellows. 



The proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws, Chap. II. Sect. 2 and 

 '3, \\hich had been read from the Chair on the 2nd May and 6th 

 June, \\ere submitted to a ballot and approved by the Pellows. 



The President announced that it was proposed to liave a dinner 

 of the Society on Thursday, 31st October, to be followed by a 

 reception in the rooms of the Society. Further notice to be given 

 in due course. 



Mr. Hugh Scott briefly introduced the following papers, 

 relating to the fauna of the Seychelles and other islands, the 

 first three and the fifth being communicated bv Prof. J. Stanley 

 Gardineu, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



1. Mr. C. G. Lamb on the Lonchreidse, Sapromyzidse, Ephy- 



dridse, Chloropidae, and Agromyzidae. 



2. Dr. Ignacio Bolivar on the Saltatorial Orthoptera. 



3. Dr. A. SiCARD on the Coccinellidae. 



4. Mr. Hugh Scott on the Coleoptera Lamellicornia and Ade- 



phaga. 



5. The late Dr. Budde-Lund on the Terrestrial Isopoda of the 



Percy Sladen Expedition, which was introduced by the 

 Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, F.E.S. 



Mr. H. Stuart Thompson exhibited 33 coloured drawings of 

 Alpine flowers by Mr. George Flemwell, with some proofs of plates 

 taken from them. 



Prof. Arthur Dendy, F.E.S. , introduced an exhibition of four 

 white canaries, of a race bred by Mrs. John Martin, of Martin- 

 borough, New Zealand, and brought home by Dr. A. E. A. Palmer, 

 of the same Dominion, who was present, and explained that they 

 were shown in this country for the first time. Miss Florence 

 Durham (visitor) also spoke. 



Prof. Dendy then showed the disc-like cocoons constructed by 

 the larva) of a Saw-fly, PJn/llotoma aceris, which had been fouudin 

 large numbers at Maiden Station, in Surrey, and were cha- 

 racterised by jumping movements like those of the well-known 

 Mexican " jumping bean." AVith them he showed specimens of 

 sycamore leaves from which portions of the mesophyll had been 

 eaten by the larvfe, while circles cut out of the upper cuticle had 

 been utilised to form one side of the cocoon, the other side being 

 spun by the larva. 



