72 THE entomologist's record. 



poLYTES IN North Kanara. — Prof. Poulton read a letter on this sub- 

 ject, written June 27th, 1914, by Mr. T. R. Bell from Karwar, N. 

 Kanara, in Bombay Presidency. The male and female of Acr.ea 

 cHiLo observed IN coitC. — Prof. Poulton said that he had received a 

 letter dated October 6th, 1911, from Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers at 

 Sagalla, near Voi, British P^ast Africa, giving confirmation of Neave's 

 discovery {Knt. Ala. Mcuj., 1909, p. 171). Males of Ceratopogon 



MYRMECOPHILUS AND FoRMICOXENUS NITIDULUS ON THE HILLOCK OF 



Formica rufa near Bournemouth. — Prof. Poulton exhibited specimens 

 and read a note contributed by Mr. A. H. Hamm. New Species of 

 Rhopalocera. — Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. .Joicey, ex- 

 hibited specimens to illustrate a paper, by Messrs. Joicey and Rosen- 

 berg, on new species of ( 'atastirta. Tbe following papers were read : 

 — " Notes on the Life-History of I'lcheius xephi/nis var. b/cidax," by 

 T. A. Chapman, M.O., F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; " Nol^e on the Manubrium of 

 the ninth sternite in the male earwig," by Malcolm Burr, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.E.S., etc. ; " Tha Opisthomeres and the Gonapophyses in the Der- 

 maptera," by the same. " On the Male Genital Armature of the 

 Dermaptera," Part I. -III., by the same. 



November IStli. — Messrs. Harry George Champion, B.A., c/o U.S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Entomological Bureau, Washington, U.S.A. ; J. 

 J. Lister, St. John's College, Cambridge, and Merton House, Grant- 

 chester; and Rev. James Waterston, B.D., B.Sc, 22, Blandford 

 Road, Bedford Park, W., were elected Fellows of the Society. 

 The President announced that the Royal Society had awarded the 

 Darwin Medal to Prof. E. B. Poulton, a former President of 

 the Entomological Society. Anthrocera meliloti and Parascotia 

 fuliginaria from Camberley,- — Mr. E. E. Green exhibited two speci- 

 mens of an Anthfoceia (Zi/gaena) from Camberley, taken August 

 20th, 1914, which appeared to be A. meliloti : also a specimen of the 

 rare Hypenid I'arascotia fidif/inaria taken at light at Camberley, 

 July 21st, 1914. The President said that he should have named the 

 specimens meliloti without hesitation, and Mr. Jones concurred. A 

 remarkable Coliad. — Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited, on behalf of Mr, 

 Dickinson, a few butterflies from Hinterzarten in the Black Forest 

 and from Pontresina. Amongst them was a $ Colias, which was 

 regarded by the exhibitor as an aberration of C. palaeno. The Rev. G. 

 Wheeler expressed the opinion that the latter was a hybrid between 

 C. palaeno and C. hi/ale. It was afterwards pointed out by Mr. Hy. J. 

 Turner that the antenna were dilierent, one resembling those of C. 

 palaeno, the other those of C. hi/ale. Parasite imprisoned in the 

 Cocoon of its Host. — Mr. Prideaux brought for exhibition a cocoon 

 of Jjomby.T (jKerciis with the dead, shrivelled larva inside, together with 

 the empty puparium of a dipterous parasite, which, with the wings 

 unexpanded, lay beside it, imprisoned within the cocoon of its host. 

 Butterflies from Central Spain. — Mr. Simes exhibited a series of 

 A(jriadefi tliersiteti, Plebeiim sephi/nis var. hesperica, and Melitaea desfon- 

 tainii from Albarracin, taken in the end of May and the beginning of 

 June, 1914. The following papers were read: — "A Revision of the 

 Mexican and Central American TelepJwrinae (Fam. Telephoridae) with 

 Descriptions of New Species," by George Charles Champion, A.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. " Descriptions of two New Genera and New Species of 

 Mymaridae from Tasmania," by Chas, 0. Waterhouse, I.S.O., F.E.S. 



