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pythonissata {immanata), Shetlands, and D. truncata, Suthei'land ; also a melanie 

 abeiTation of D. concinnata taken liy 3Ir. Horn on Ai-rau Island. The Kev. G. 

 Wheeler, a series of Pierisnapi, from Kinghorn on the coast of Fife, taken on 

 August 4th, 1915, the ^ J being remarkable for the extent of the black mark- 

 ings on the fore-wings, the $ $ for the extent of the grey suffusion along the 

 costa inner margin and nervures of the same wings. Dr. Guy A. K. Mai-shall, 

 a specimen of a Noctiiid moth, Arcijophora longivalis Guen., forwarded from 

 Eukuba Hill, 40UO ft.. East Africa, by Mr. W. F. Poulton, a veterinary 

 officer of the Uganda Protectorate, who found it feeding in numbers on the 

 moisture from the eyes of mules. Prof. Poulton, two examples of a Pentatomid 

 bug, Zicrona coerulea L., also a freshly emerged male Agriades coridon, which 

 was taken at Royston, Hertfordshire, Jiily 25th, 1915, b}- Dr. E. A. Cocka5-ne. 

 The two bugs were sucking the butterfly, one attacking the thorax, the other 

 the abdomen. Mr. "W. J. Kaye, ova oi Pyrrhopygecharyhdis, a skipper belonging 

 to the whollj' Neotropical sub-family Pyrrhopygijiae. The eggs, for the size of 

 the butterfly, are enormous. Also a number of species of the Pyrrhopyginae 

 illustrative of the different genera of the sub-fixmily : Pseudoaarhia phoenici4:ola, 

 a mimic of Sarbia xayithippe, and Pyrrhopygopsis socrates, a mimic of P. pelota ; 

 and Phocides pygmalion mimicking Je7nadia hospita. Mr. G. T. Porritt, a form of 

 Cymatophora or, entirely black with the exception of the pale stigmata, taken 

 at Sunderland this year, several of the form having been taken there during 

 each of the past four or five years. Mr. G. T;ilbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, 

 a ntunber of new butterflies from Biak ; also cells of a mud- wasp (Odynerus 

 ? sp.) formed in the groove of an insect store-box in the Witley Museum ; the 

 mud having been collected and brought into the Mixseum by the wasp. 



The following paper was read ; — " On the Biology of Sphodromantis guttata ," 

 by C. B. Williams. B.A., F.E.S., and P. A. Buxton, B.A., F.E.S. 



Wednesday, December 1st, 1915. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. K. S, Padmanabha Aiyar, Trivandrum, Ti-:ivaucore, India, and Major 

 Harry Diamond Peile, I.M.S., Bannu, North- West Frontier Provinces, India, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Signor A. Berlese, Italy, and Mr. L. H. Howai-d, U.S.A., were elected Hon. 

 Fellows to fiU the vacancies caused by the death of M. J. H. Fabre and Baron 

 Brunner von Wattenwyl. 



Mr. A H. Jones exhibited, on behalf of Mrs. Walsh, a number of insects 

 from Java, nearly all of which were taken by her in her garden and groimds at 

 Soekaboemi. Mr. C. B. Williams, a series of coloiired drawings of the pupa 

 cases of the British Aleiu-odidae executed by Mr. H. G. Ostei-stock. Mr. R. Adkin, 

 several families of Boarmia gemmana, and gave explanatory notes on breeding 

 from a melanie race. — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



