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A vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to Mr. IVIorice for his services in 

 presenting, and in assisting the President in the preparation of the Address, and it 

 was resolved to jjublish the same in tlie Society's Proceedings. 



The President read a letter received from Dr. Karl Jordan, F.E.S., of the 

 Museum, Tring, asking the support of the Society for an International Congress of 

 Entomology. 



A resolution, cordially ajiproving the Congress, and offering the support and 

 co-operation of the Society, was carried unanimously. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a living example of LeioptHus carphodactylus, 

 Hb., one of the first bred British specimens. Mr. H. St. J. Ponisthorpe, a speci- 

 men of Microdon mulahiUs, with the empty pupa-ease, bred from a larva taken in 

 the nest of Formica fusca at Porlock, April, 1007; also $ S and 9 ? of Kledi- 

 toma miirmecophila, n. sp., bred last month from a nest of Lasiu.s fuliffinosus found 

 at Wellington College in March, 1907. He said that this species of parasitic 

 Ci/nipidie, which was new to science, had been named by Professor Dr. J. J. Kieffer. 

 Mr. M. Jacoby, examples of small Phytophagous beetles from Australia, new to 

 science, of the family Clfithridx, including Leasia australis, Jac. Professor 

 E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., read a note on the siguifieanee of some secondary sexual 

 characters in butterflies. Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited the types of three species of 

 Proclotrujjidif described by Westwood, but entirely overlooked by subsequent 

 authors. Mr. E. E. Austen, examples of an Afi-ican ily, para^^itic in the larval 

 stage on human beings and animals— a true IVFuseid^about the identity of which 

 there is considerable confusion among the various authors. Dr. F. A. Dixey and 

 Dr. Or. B. Longstaff contributed a i-eport of their joint entomological observations 

 made in South Africa during the visit of the British Association in 1905, and gave 

 a brief account of some of the points dealt with. — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS CRYPTOrHAGUS, WITH A TABLE OF 

 THE SPECIES. 



BY ARTHUR J. CHITTY, ]\r. A , F. E. S. 



Having recently liad to work out for the purposes of my 

 collection a table of the British Cryptopharii from the characters given 

 iu Gaiiglbaucr's work on the Ooleoptera of Middle Europe, it lias 

 occurred to me it might prove useful to others. The maiu divisions 

 used by British collectors appear to me to be based on very diflicult 

 characters, and I have often been unable to satisfy myself with 

 sufficient certainty that the beetle I was trying to name did not 

 belong to some group other than that to which I had at the outset 

 referred it. Ganglbauer depends neither on the callose prominences 

 on the thorax nor on the presence or absence of a basal fold before 

 the scutellum, and his table ap])oars to me to group the insects in 

 a satisfactory manner. No doubt there are difficulties, whatever 



