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their friends will succeed in bringing together a large and interesting 

 collection of exhibits on that evening. 



M. J. Posl<in is again President of the Societe Entomologique 

 Namuroise with M. Lambillion as Vice-president. M. le baron 

 Georges de Crombrngge de Picquendaele is the Honorary President. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — October Isf, 1913. — Herr 

 Wilhelm Junk, 68, Sachsische-strasse, Berlin, W. 15, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. — Haplothorax buechellii. — Mr. H. F. 

 Bartlett exhibited a specimen of Haplothorax burc/tellii found under a 

 stone on the lower part of Flagstaff Hill, St. Helena, on March 25th, 

 1913. Larval and Imaginal Embiid.^ from Tunisia and Algeria. 

 — Mr. P. A. Buxton exhibited specimens (sp. as yet undetermined) 

 from various localities in Tunis and Algeria and from the coast to south 

 of the Atlas Mountain. Remarkable Coleopterous Palpi. — Mr. E. 

 E. Green exhibited a Drilid (?) beetle, from Ambalangoda, Ceylon, 

 with remarkable elongate spatulate mandibular and maxillary palpi. 

 Braconid silk. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. T. 

 Lyle, some silk wound from a Braconid cocoon, together with 

 specimens of the cocoons themselves. Coniopterygid cocoons. — Mr. 

 C. B. Williams exhibited specimens of the cocoons of the three 

 British Coniopterygids. Mimicry in relation to Geographical 

 Distribution. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited several boxes of Lepidoptera 

 in illustration of the geographical relations in Mimicry. Papilio 

 dardanus. Brown, bred in S.E. Rhodesia by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton. 

 — Prof. Poulton read an extract from a letter written from Chirinda, 

 S.E. Rhodesia, August 28th, 1913, by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, and 

 said that Mr. Swynnerton's breeding experiments showed that the 

 hippocoon form at Chirinda in S.E. Rhodesia is, genetically, just as 

 predominant as the cenea form is in the Durban district. An imported 

 Japanese Locustid. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited, on behalf of Dr. 

 Burr, a specimen of Diestrainmena viarmorata, Haan, a Stenopelmatid 

 Locustid from Japan, which occurs alive in Relf's Nursery at St. 

 Leonards. Araschnia levana in the Forest of Dean. — Mr. H. 

 Rowland-Brown, brought for exhibition an example of Araxchina levana, 

 sent him by Mr. T. Butt Ekins of Penarth, who said that he had captured 

 it at the end of May this year on the outskirts of the Forest of Dean. 

 An aberration of Colias edusa. — Comm. J. J. Walker exhibited a 5 

 Cnliaa edusa, F., taken by himself in the Isle of Sheppey, August 21st, 

 1918, in which the margin of the hindwings was almost entirely clear 

 golden-yellow. An imported Syntomid. — Comm. Walker also exhibited 

 a specimen of a Ceraniidia near C. chloropleiiia, Druce, taken by a lady 

 in a fruiterer's shop in North Oxford, no doubt imported with fruit. 

 Scarce and aberrant Coleoptera. — Comm. Walker also exhibited the 

 following Coleoptera : — (1) A short series of the very rare Halticid 

 beetle rsi/llioiles cyanoptera, 111. (2) A specimen of Coccinella 10- 

 pimctata, L., var. contiuens, Harr., and another very curious aberration 

 of the same beetle with golden-yellow spots. (3) The very rare S of 

 Malthodes atoiinis, Thorns. (4) A monstrosity of Haliplus covjinis, 

 Steph., with three perfectly developed tarsi on the right-hind leg. A 

 Collection of Catocalids. — Mr. Dadd exhibited a collection of 



