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Mr. W. A. Bogue, Wilt.s and Dorset Dank, Sliepton Mallet, Mr. G. R. Baldock, 

 71, Hertford Koad, Lower Ednioiitoii, Mr. Robert Etlieridge, jun., Curator of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Mr. Charles French, F.L.S., 

 Government Entomologist, Victoria, Australia, Mr. J. T. Houghton, Worksop, 

 Notts., Mr. G. Lyell, jun., Gisborne, Victoria, Australia, and Mr. William Herrod, 

 the Horticultural College, Swanley, Kent, were elected Fellows of tlie Society. 



Mr. H.J. P]lwes, F'.R.S., cxhibiled a small collection of Noi wegian butterflies 

 made in July last, on one day at Saltdalen, including a fine series of Erehia disa, 

 Pararge m;era and Carterucephalus st/lvhts, the latter not being foinid in any other 

 part of this region, though it occurs counnonly in Southern Norway. Mr. A. J. 

 Chitty, living specimens of Aiiiliribus albinus, showing the way in which this beetle 

 mimics its surroundings. Mr. J. W Tutt, a number of series of the genus Melitaea 

 to illustrate his remarks made at the last meeting, and the discussion on the 

 affinities of the several named species was continued. Mr. H. J. Hlwes mentioned 

 that he was at present engaged in tlie classification and arrangement of the Melitaean 

 Argynnids in the British Museum, and appealed to collectors to bring their series 

 there to be looked over, and to pi'esent such specimens as might be useful for the 

 completion of the group. The President exhibited a set of 323 butterflies from 

 British Guiana, all captured on one day, August 28th, 19u3, between the ninth and 

 tenth mile from the Poturo River to the Gold Mities. The dominance of the black- 

 hind-winged group was seen in the fact that it included no less than 295, of which 

 Melinma mneine alone acc^ounted for 253 specimens. Mr. J. C. Kershaw communi- 

 cated a note on the larva and pupa of Clerome eumeus, Drury. Mr W. J. Kaye 

 contributed " A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera-Ehopalocera of Trinidad, with an 

 appendix by G. L. Guppy." Mr. P. I. Lathy, F.Z.S., communicated a paper " On 

 some Aberrations of Lepidoptera." 



November 18/A. — The President in the Cliair. 



Mr. John Rowland Cattle, ofNettleton Manor, Caistor, and 59, Chancery Lane, 

 E.C., and Mr. E. J. Hare, of 8, Hillsboro' Road, East Dulwich, S.E., were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited numerous specimens of both sexes of Xyleboriis 

 dispar, from AJoncayo, Spain, taken out of beech-stumps. Mr. F. B. Jennings (1), 

 on behalf of Mr. H. Britten, of Great Salkeld, Cumberland, a specimen of Tropi- 

 phorv.s tomentosus, Marsh., from Great Salkeld, showing the deciduous false mandi- 

 bles intact; (2), a ? specimen of Anchomenus parumpiinctatus, F., from the same 

 locality, showing a malformation of the middle right tibia which was abnormally 

 thin, and bent in the centre, but thickened at the base ; the right antenna also had 

 the last seven joints flattened and dilated. Mr. Jennings also exbibited on his own 

 behalf, Apion sangiiineum, De G., taken at Brandon, Suffolk, in August last, on 

 Rumex. Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, Apium .sorbi, S , taken this year at Fresh- 

 water, Isle of Wight, and said that the <? of this species was extremely rare. 

 Mr. M. Burr, two ?s and two c? s of the largest known earwig, Anisolabis 

 colossea, Dohrn, from New South Wales. Mr. A. J. Chitty, a specimen of the 

 rare Romalium textaceum taken in Blean Wood in 1900, and a pair of bees 

 Nomada gnttulata, of which the S has never been recorded hitherto in Britain, 

 taken by Iiim at Iluntingfield, Kent, in May last. Dr. Norman Joy (1), Euconnus 



