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Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman, R.N., of Weston Park, Shifnal, Salop, and H.M.S. 

 " Clio," Australian Station ; Mr. W. A. Luff, of Brock Road, Guernsey ; Mr. Frank 

 S. Mumford, of 10, Mountfield Gardens, Tunbridge Wells ; Mr. Edward Harris, of 

 2, Chardmore Road, Upper Clapton, N.E. ; Mr. Thomas Frederick Furnival, of 

 Bushey Heath, and Bishopstone, Sussex ; and Mr. Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, of Eden- 

 bridge, Kent, and Magdalen College, Oxford ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a pair of Mschna isosceles taken by him in the 

 Norfolk Broads last summer. The species had been regarded as almost lost to the 

 British list for many years. Mr. J. E. Collin, Phora formicarum, Verr., which is 

 parasitic on the ant, Lasius niger, obtained by sweeping the herbage in a paddock 

 at Newmarket : a species that has not been found or recognised by continental Dip- 

 terologists ; and Phora sp. found in a garden at Newmarket, running about at the 

 entrance to a nest of Bombus. Commander J. J. Walker, (1) a series of Buprestidee 

 from Sydney, N.S.W., and the adjoining district (including the nearest part of the 

 Blue Mountains), comprising about 120 species, of which 70 belonged to the genus 

 Stlgmodera ; also a dried specimen of Angophora cordifoUa, Cav., a small tree of 

 the natural Order Myrtaceae, the flowers of which are the great attraction in New 

 South Wales for the Buprestidx, as well as for very many other Coleoptera. (2) 

 Specimens of the " Bugong " Moth, Agrotis spina, Guenee, from Jervis Bay, 

 N.S.W. (referred to at the previous meeting) ; and (3) Carthcea saturnoides, Walk., 

 a remarkable moth from Perth, W.A., referred to the Oeometrina but possessing an 

 extraordinary superficial resemblance to a Saturniid in aspect, though not to any 

 one of the known Australian species of that family. Mr. A. J. Chitty, a specimen 

 of Peribalus vernalis, Wolff, a rare bug, of which only five or six specimens 

 appear to have been taken, and pointed out that as the records in Saunders' 

 Hemiptera included Cumberland and Weston-super-Mare, and his own specimen 

 was taken at Huntingfield, Kent, it was probably overlooked. Mr. Claude Morley 

 had also taken one specimen in Essex. Dr. F. A. Dixey, a remarkable pale form of 

 Mamestra brassicse, taken by Dr. G. B. Longstaff and himself at Mortehoe, North 

 Devon, on July 16th, 1903. The specimen showed the usual markings of the species 

 on a cream coloured ground, faintly shot with pinkish or apricot. There was a 

 slight smoky shade over the central area of the fore-wing, the hind-wings were 

 yellowish-grey, the thorax yellowish-brown, the abdomen apricot coloured, with a 

 dorsal chain of dark tufts. The President, Professor Poulton, read the following 

 observations on the gregarious hibernation of certain Californian insects, communi- 

 cated to him by Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, of the Leland Stanford Junior 

 University, California ; he also read a paper on " The habit of some insects to seek 

 high and exposed elevations." A discussion followed, in which Dr. Chapman, Mr. 

 Champion, Dr. Dixey, Mr. Tutt, Col. Swinhoe, and others joined. Mr. O. E. Janson 

 contributed on behalf of Mr. F. P. Dodd, of Townsville, Queensland, a note upon 

 " Maternal Instinct in Khynchota" and Mr. H. Rowland Brown read a " Note on 

 Oncoptera intricata," a moth extremely destructive to pastures in Tasmania, by Mr. 

 F. M. Littler, M.A.O.U., of Launceston, Tasmania. He also exhibited examples of 

 the imago and larva of the species, the latter closely resembling that of a Hepialid. 

 — H. Rowland Brown, Ron, Sec. 



