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Secretiiry on belialf of Dr. Hojie unci Mr. J. Ray Hardy. PanMora viresceiis and 

 Periplaneta americana, captured at Leyland by, and exliibited on belialf of, Mr. 

 J. R. Charnley, F.Z.S. ; P. australasitx from Buxton, by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor. 

 Labidura riparia from Branksorae (Major Robertson), and Bosconibe (Mr. J. R. 

 le B. Toralin, M.A.) ; Apterygida arachidis from Bow, London (Mr. C. E. Bedwell) ; 

 Locusta viridisfima from Swanage (Mr. Tomlin) and Ilfracombe (Mr. W. A. Tyer- 

 man), and Xl/>hidium dorsale from the Isle of Sheppey (Mr. Tomlin), &c., were 

 exhibited by Mr. Soi)p, who also placed on view the series of very beautiful ento- 

 mological Micro slides executed by Mr. Richard Hancock — E. J. 15. SoPP and J. R. 

 le B. ToMliiN, Hon. Secretaries. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, October 19^/t, 1904. — 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry H. Brown, of the Procurator Fiscal's OfBce, and of Castleford 

 Tower, Cupar, Fife, N.B. ; Mr. George Eckford, of 3, Crescent Avenue, Plymouth ; 

 and Mr. W. Vaughan,of Denton Dene, Ealing ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a series of Lozopera deaurana, Peyr., bred last 

 spring at Hyeres, a species regarded as lost, or mythical, until he re-discovered it 

 three years ago at He Ste. Marguerite, Cannes ; he also exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. Hugh Main, a specimen of I'ieris brassicx, symmetrically injured, probably by 

 the girdle when in the pupal stage. Mr. G. C. Champion, specimens of Nothorrhina 

 muricata, Dalm., from Las Navas, Spain, found trapped in the earthenware cups 

 used to collect the exuding resin on the trunks of pines. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, 

 specimens of the rare beetle Cis bHamellatus, Wood, taken at Shirley on October 

 luth last. Mr. W. J. Lucas, a ? specimen of the rare dragon-fly Agrion annatum. 

 Mr. W. J. Kaye, five specimens of Dianthoecia luteago, var. ficklini, from Bude, 

 North Cornwall, taken during the first week in July, 1901, and remarked that while 

 the typical D. luteago of the Continent was tolerably constant, wherever it occurred 

 in Britain, it assumed a special local form. Professor E. B. Poulton, l"" R.S., a 

 number of specimens of the genus Sphecodes, and of their mimetic Tachinid fly, 

 illustrating his remarks on Mr. Edward Saunders' recent paper on " the Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera from the Balearic Islands and Spain." Mr. Gr. A. J. Rothney sent 

 for exhibition a series of the Indian ant Myrmicaria fodiens, Jerdon, from the 

 colony established in the big banyan tree in Barrackpore Park for thirty-two years ; 

 and Monomorium salomonis, Linn., and Solenopsis geminata, Fab., successfully en- 

 couraged in Madras godowns as a protection against " white ants" — termites. Mr. 

 E. E. Green, a spider from Ceylon mimetic of some Coceinellid beetle, at present 

 unidentified. Col. J. W. Yerbury, specimens of deer gadflies taken by him this 

 year in Scotland, and read notes upon them. — H. Rowland Beown, Hon. Sec. 



END OF VOL. XV (Second Seeies). 



