148 THE entomologist's record. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. — Annual Meeting. — 

 January 21.s<, 1914. — No other names having been received in addition 

 to those proposed by the Council as Officers and Council for the 

 ensuing year, the latter were declared by the President to be elected. 

 Mr. R. W. Lloyd, one of the Auditors, read the Auditors' Report, which 

 was adopted on the motion of Mr. H. E. Page, seconded by Mr. J. 

 Piatt Barrett. The Rev. G. Wheeler, one of the Secretaries, then 

 read the Report of the Council, which was adopted on the motion of 

 Mr. R. S. Standen, seconded by Mr. R. W. Lloyd. The President then 

 delivered an Address, after which Prof. Ponlton moved a Vote of 

 Thanks to him, coupled with the request that he would allow the 

 Address to be printed as a part of the Society's Proceedings ; this was 

 seconded by Mr. W. J. Lucas and carried by acclamation. • The 

 President returned thanks and Mr. 0. E. Janson then proposed a Vote 

 of Thanks to the other Officers for their services during the past year ; 

 this was seconded by Mr. T. F. S. Hoar and carried, the Treasurer and 

 the two Secretaries returning thanks in a few words. 



February ith. — Election of Fellows. — ^Miss Maude Lina West 

 Cleghorn, 57, Ballygunge Circular Road, Calcutta, and Mr. William 

 John Forsham, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., The Villa, Bubwith, Selby, Yorks, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. Prodenia littoralis bred in 

 England. — Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited specimens of Prodenia littoralis 

 bred from larvse found feeding on bananas at Weymouth. A Species 

 OF Prottjra and a New Order of Insects. — Mr. C. B. Williams 

 exhibited a specimen of the Genus Accreutomon of the Order Protura 

 taken from moss in the New Forest, Hampshire. He also drew the 

 attention of the Society to the new Order Zoraptera just described by 

 Silvestri. Ant Larvae as Sewing-Machines. — Mr. Donisthorpe 

 exhibited specimens of the ants Oecophylla smarar/diiia, F., from 

 Ceylon, and 0. virescens, F., from North Queensland. These ants 

 use their larvfe to spin threads and fasten the leaves of their nests 

 together. Algerian Diptera.^ — ^Prof. Poulton exhibited a collection of 

 Diptera and other insects associated with them, made by Dr. Adalbert 

 Seitz, F.E.S. The specimens were chiefly taken at Batna (about 

 "1,300 metres) in July, 1918. A Pierine Mimic of a Danaid. — -Prof. 

 Poulton also exhibited specimens of the Pierid Neophasia terlooti, and 

 pointed out its mimetic resemblance to a Danaine. The following 

 papers were read: — "On the egglaying of Trichioxoma,'' by T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. "A remarkable new Genus and 

 Species of Odonata of the Legion Podaijrion, Sel., from N. Queensland," 

 by Kenneth ■). Morton, F.E.S. " Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S.E. 

 Brazil," by E. Dukinfield-Jones, F.Z.S., F.E.S. " The Myrmeco- 

 philous Aphides of Britain," by Prof. F. V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S. 



March 4:th. — Messrs. Wm. J. von Monte Pendlebury, Broadlands, 

 Shrewsbury, and Keble College, Oxford ; Robert Veitch, 7, Queen's 

 Crescent, Edinburgh, and Francis Cardew Woodforde, B.A., Market 

 Drayton, Salop^ were elected Fellows of the Society. Polymorphism in 

 Ants. — Mr. H. Donisthorpe and Mr. W. C. Crawley exhibited a number 

 of polymorphic forms in ants, illustrated by a chart, and read notes. 

 Gynandromorphic Eriogaster lanestris. — Mr. H. Main exhibited a 

 gynandromorphic specimen of Eriogaster lanestris, right side ? , left 



