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received from Major O. Kentish Wright, through Dr. A. E. Shipley. Major 

 Wright sent samples of the flies (which Mr. Collin has kindly named) accom- 

 panied by a letter, of which the following is an extract:— "I moved yesterday 

 [December 22nd, 191.5] into the above house [Shouldham Hall]. It is a good- 

 sized country house which has been empty for about 18 months. The larger 

 specimens were found in large numbers in the rooms, the smaller ones by* 

 millions in a room over the stables, all in the corners or iinder the wall-paper. 

 They all seem very lethargic but wake up with warmth . I visited this house 

 earlier in the year, I think it was early in September, and at that time I only 

 noticed the larger flies. They were quite lively and swarmed in some of the empty 

 and closed rooms, where there did not appear to be any food for them." Onlj' one 

 example of the " larger specimens " was sent here, and this proves to be Musca 

 corvina. The " smaller ones," which occixrred "by millions," are Chloroinsca cir- 

 cumdata Meig. {^=ornata Loew nee Meig.), i.e., the same species which swarmed 

 at Babraham (referred to in my previous note as " ornata Meig."). Mr. Collin 

 tells me that he has seen no other species of Chloropisca besides this in house- 

 swarms. It may be added that the small greyish Anthomyiid spoken of in my 

 previous note, stated by Mr. Collin in a footnote to be pi-obably Limnophora 

 T-notata Zett., has proved, on examples being examined by him, to be actually 

 that species. — Hugh Scott, University Museum of Zoologj^, Cambridge : Janu- 

 ary 10th, 1916. 



^ocietij 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, Novemher nth, 1915.— 

 The Hon. N. C. Eothschild, M.A., P.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. John Wesley Carr, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. Professor of Biology in 

 University College, Nottingham, and Albert Harry Hamm, 22, Southfield Eoad, 

 Oxford, Assistant in the Hope Department, Oxford University Museum, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President said he was sure the Fellows would wish, without passing 

 any formal vote, to express their regret at the death of Professor Meldola, 

 formerly President of the Society. 



The Secretary announced that the Council had nominated all the Officers for 

 re-election, and proposed the following Fellows to act as the Coimcil for 1916 : — 

 Messrs. A. Bacot, E. A. Butler, B.A., B.Sc, T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 E. A. Cockayne, M.A., M.D., J. C. F. Fryer, M.A., C. J. Gahan, M.A., E. E. Green, 

 F.E.S., G. B. Longstaff, M.A., M.D., G. Meade- Waldo, M.A., S. A. Neave, B.A., 

 H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., A. E. Tonge. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited, on behalf of Mr. L. H. Bonaparte Wyse, a 

 number of Coleoptera taken by him in Ireland this year. Dr. Cockayne, a series 

 of Dysstroma concinnata Steph., taken by Mr. E.. T. Horn atTarbert, Argyllshire, 

 Jiily, 1915. For comparison, D. concinnata, Arran, and the two Irish specimens 

 taken by Capt. Gwatkin-Williams, E.N., on Achil Island ; also D. citrata ab. 



