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The President announced that the Council had decided in favour of holding 

 a Conversazione at some date next year to be fixed by a Committee of Fellows 

 elected for the purpose of organization, &e. 



Wednesday, November ^th, 1907. — Mr. E. Saundkrs, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Gr. Arnold, University of Liverpool ; Mr. II. Frederick D. Bartlett, of 113, 

 Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth; Mr. John Claude Fortescue Fryer, B.A., of 

 The Priory, Chatteris ; Mr. C. W. Howard, of the Acting Government, Transvaal ; 

 Mr. Charles II. Mortimer, of VVigmore, Holmwood : Mr. R. F. H. Rosenberg, of 

 57, Ilaverstock Hill, London, N.W. ; Mr. Harold Baker Sly, of Brackley Knoll 

 Road, Sidcup, Kent; and Mr. Clement H. Pead, of Johannesburg and St. Leonard's 

 Road, Bexhill-on-Sea; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited a specimen of the Longicorn beetle Acanfhociniis 

 aedilLs, L., a well-known species found in Gray's Inn Road. Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 S and 9 specimens of a new Pinacopteryx, discovered by Mr. S. A. Xeave in 

 Northern Rhodesia; the $ resetnbled tliat of P. rubrobaaalis, but the S was quite 

 distinct ; both sexes of P. rubrobasalis and the female sex of Mr. Neave's species 

 were mimics of Mylothris agathina. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a series of Limenitis 

 populi and ab. tremulie with intermediate forms taken this year at Laon, and a 

 series of Chrysophanus hippotho'e from the same region, the females displaying a wide 

 range of variation for so restricted a locality as that in which they were captured. 

 Mr. G. C. Champion, a fully developed example of Mesovelia furcata, M. and R., 

 from Slapton, South Devon, and Thamnotrizon cinereus from Lyn mouth, North 

 Devon. Mr. A. Harrison and Mr. Hugh Main, a case of Aplecta nebulosa, arranged to 

 show the great range of variation of this species in Delamere Forest ; with series from 

 Epping Forest, North Cornwall, and the New Forest, for comparison ; the Cornish 

 and New Forest insects were of the light grey colour which is the prevailing form 

 in the West and South of England, with the exception of the neighbourhood of 

 .London, where a dark grey form is found, as shown in the series from Epping 

 Forest; the Delamere Forest insects ranged from a rather light colour to a melanic 

 form, with intermediates showing a complete gradation from one form to the other. 

 Mr. R. S. Mitford, two S sp'ecimens of Cryptocephalus bipttnctatus, taken by him 

 at Niton in the Isle of Wight, in July, 1907, while sweeping the grass on the slopes 

 of the Unuercliff ; of the two forms of varieties well known on the Continent neither 

 had hitherto been found in Britain; he also showed Paracymus leneiis, captured on 

 the North Essex coast in June, 1898, establishing its claim to be regarded as a 

 British Beetle ; an example of the very rare Lathrobium rufipenne, taken by him at 

 Niton, Isle of Wight, in July, 1906 ; a specimen of the rare Ceuthorrhynchus vidu- 

 atus, taken by him at Brading, Isle of Wight, in July, 1907 ; and a specimen of 

 Cis dentatus, taken by him at Sandown, Isle of Wight, in July, 1906. 



Mr. J. E. Collin communicated a paper " On a large series of Nycteribiidx 

 (parasitic Diptera) from Ceylon." Dr. G. B. Longstaff then read a paper " On 

 some Butterflies taken in Jamaica," and a paper " On some Butterflies of Tobago," 

 exhibiting a number of examples taken by himself in both localities to illustrate his 

 remarks. — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



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