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the rare Coleopteron, Ojcyliemus variolosnx, from Darenth Wood, in August, 1903. 

 Tlie species is rare on tlie Continent. Mr. Ncwmiin, a long bred series of Pulygonia 

 c-album, representative of sonie 7U0 tallowing but trivial variation. Mr. 13. Adkin, 

 a bandless form of Anaitis plagiata, a EiqjUhecia 2Jii-iiiiliiia with only (wo transverse 

 lines, with nice forms of Cam2)tograinma bilineata and other species. Mr. Ka^'c, 

 a bred series of Daphii'm nerii from Dalniatia. Mr. Adkin, a series of Cymatophora 

 duplaris from Rannoch, and contributed notes on the two very distinct forms. 

 Mr. Adkin made some I'emarks upon insects attacked by verdigris ; a discussion 

 ensued, Messrs. Montgomery, Kaye, South, and others taking part. Mr. Turner, 

 the butterfly-like moth, Synemon parthenoides, the sexually dimorphic llelero- 

 nympha merope, and other insects from Western Australia. Mr. Ray ward read 

 notes on the curious relations he had observed between ants {Formica Jlava) and 

 the larva of Pulyommatus icarus, and gave details of his experiments. 



Thursday, April 25fh, 1907. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a branch of birch, upon the twigs of which were about 

 a thousand ova of Dl.morpha versicolura, laid by females sleeved around it. Mr. 

 Main, some email Scorpions, the larva of a Mantis, and an example of the large 

 locust, Acridiuin xgyptium, L, all living, and sent him from Ilyeres by Dr. 

 Chapman. Mr. Sieh, the ova of Lilhocolletis cuncomiteUa, a species closely allied 

 to the more common L. pumifulieUa. — Uy. J. TuKNEK, Jlon. Sec. 



Entomolooical Society of London: Wednesday, May \st, 1907.— 

 Mr. C. O. Watekhouse, President, in the Chair. 



M. Alexandre Bonnet, of 36'''*, Bjulevard Bineau, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, 

 France; Mr. Henry Murray Giles, of Perth, Western Australia ; Mr. Arthur Leslie 

 Raywood, of Colebrooke, Park Lane, Wallington, Surrey ; and Mr. Yeend Duer, of 

 Tokyo, Japan ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The decease was announced of the Rev. William Henry Heale, M.A. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a small collection of Coleoptera made by liim in 

 Iceland in July, 1906, comprising thirty-nine species, of which some were previously 

 unrecorded as inhabiting that island. Mr. J. A. Clark, living larva) of Utiorrhyii- 

 chus snlcatui feeding on the roots of ferns. Commander J. J. Walker, living speci- 

 mens of Oxythyrea stictica, L., Epicometis hirtella, L., and Anlhaxia parallela. 

 Lap., taken by Dr. T. A. Chapman at St. Maxime, S. France. Dr. F. A. Dixoy, 

 specimens of seven different forms of the variable female of Lcuceronia argia, Fabr., 

 showing that each form stood in mimetic relation with a separate model., also 

 exhibited. The President, some Coleoptera collected in Pahang by Mr. H. C. 

 Robinson and recently received at the Natural History Museum. The series con- 

 tained some interesting cases of mimicry between beetles of widely separated 

 groups. Dr. G. B. Longstaff, living specimens of the Elaterid Pyrophorus 

 noctilucus, Linn., brought from Trinidad by Dr. F. L. J. M. de Verteuil, R.N. 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, on behalf of Prof. T. Hudson Beare and himself, speci- 

 mens of Quedius riparius, Keil., and Try2)odendron quercus, Eich., taken by them 

 at Porloek, Somersetshire, on April 161 h and 17th ; also Jlydrovatus clypealis,Shp., 

 taken by them on April 14tli, at Worle, near Weston-super-Mare. Mr. Donisthorpe 



