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Entomological Society of London : March 2iid, 1901. — Professor E. B. 

 PouLTON, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. L. 0. H. Young, of 1, Kampart Row, Bombay, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., exhibited (1) Hecatesia fenestrata, Bdv., an in- 

 teresting Australian moth, the S possessed of a very marked jjower of stridula- 

 tion (stridulating organ on longitudinal transparent bar of fore-wing), known in 

 N. S. Wales as the " Whistling Moth ;" (2) Dodonidia helmsi, Butler, a rare 

 Satyrid butterfly from New Zealand ; and (3) a gigantic species of the Thysanurid 

 genus Japyx, found at Picton, New Zealand. Mr. 0. O. Waterhouse exhibited and 

 commented on the diagram of the mouth of one of the MaUophaga {Lcemo- 

 bothrhim titan). Dr. F. A. Dixey read a note on the " Bugong " moth, which 

 is used for food by some Australian natives. He pointed out that it was not a 

 Huploea at all, as supposed by Kirby in his " Bridgwater Treatise," but a Euxoa ; 

 and not a butterfly, as fui'ther stated by Westwood. Mr. Gr. C. Champion exhi- 

 bited specimens of two species of Dorcadion found during his recent journey in 

 Spain ; D. almarzense, Esc. ?, from the summit of Moncayo, and D. neilense, 

 Esc, from the Sierra de Logrono ; also numerous examples of Fyropsyche mon- 

 caunella, Chapm., found by Dr. Chapman and himself on Moncayo. Mr. A. 

 J. Chitty, Mr. Jennings and other Fellows, specimens of the genus Tropi- 

 phorus, whichseemed to show that T. mercurialis and T. obtusus were in reality the 

 sexes of the same species. The President, a specimen of a beetle, Olenea pulchella 

 (Thorns.), one of three individuals of the species taken last year, near Barwood 

 in the Nilgiris, by Mr. Leslie Andrewes ; the most striking of which clearly 

 mimics a large ichneumon fly, not yet identified. Mr. L. B. Prout, on behalf 

 of Mr. A. Bacot, long bred series of Triphsena comes, Hb., the result of breeding 

 for two generations from a wild $ of the ciirtisii form, taken near Forres. In the 

 first generation, rather more than half the progeny followed, to a certain extent, the 

 parent ? , though varying from rich deep red to almost black. Pairings of these 

 dark specimens resulted in a brood in which the percentage of ab. curtisii was 

 slightly increased, although the type forms were still well represented ; but it was 

 noticeable that in every specimen the orbicular stigma was filled up with the darker 

 or melanic colour. Mr. Arthur M. Lea communicated " Notes on Australian and 

 Tasmanian Cryptocephalides, with descriptions of New Species." Mr. Gilbert J. 

 Arrow communicated " A Revision of the subfamily Pelidnotinx of the Coleopterous 

 family Rutelidse, with descriptions of New Genera and Species," by the late 

 Frederick Bates. Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., read a paper " On some 

 new species of Eastern Australian and African Moths in the British Museum." 

 Mr. George Charles Champion, F.Z.S., read a paper on " An Entomological Excur- 

 sion to Moncayo, Spain, with some remarks on the habits of Xyleborus dispar, 

 Fabr., by Dr. Tliomas Algernon Chapman, M.D." Mr. Kenneth J. Morton com- 

 municated " Further Notes on irydroptilidx belonging to the European Fauna, with 

 descriptions of New Species ;" and Mr. R. Shelford, M.A., communicated " A Note 

 on Slymnias borneiensis, Wallace." A discussion on " What is a Species ? " was 

 opened by the Rev. F. D. Morice, in which Mr. II. J. Elwes, Professor F. A. Dixey, 

 Mr. A. J. Chitty, Mr. W. E. Sharp, The President, and other Fellows joined. — H. 

 Rowland Brown, Hon. Sec. 



