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The death of Mr. F. Enock was announced. 



The President read a letter from Mr. H. Eowland-Brown, inviting a con- 

 tinuance of subscriptions to the upkeep of Wicken Fen. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited specimens of insects collected by him during the 

 visit of the British ~ Association to Australia in 1914. He stated that the 

 exhibit might be considered to have some interest from the extent of the 

 ground covered, but was not otherwise specially remarkable. The localities 

 collected in included Gibraltar, the Gu.lf of Aden, Colombo, Townsville, 

 Magnetic Island, Kuranda, Thursday Island, Java, Singapore, Penang, Kandy 

 and Port Said. Scents more or less pronoimced had been determined in several 

 of the species of butterflies met with during the trip. Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf 

 of Mr. J. J. Joicey : — (1) A family of Papilio dardanus Brown ; this series was 

 bred in 1914 by Mr. G. F. Leigh of Durban, Natal, from the ova laid by a 

 single $ of the hippocoon form. (2) Rare butterflies from French Guiana. 

 (3) Mud wasps from a nest made in an insect box. Prof. Povdtou read a letter 

 written by the late Colonel N. Manders, on the discussion following his paper on 

 Marcli 3rd, 191.5. just before he started for the Dardanelles, where he gave his 

 life for his country. The Rev. F. D. Mori?e exhibited a worker of the social 

 wasp Polistes galUcus L., taken by Mr. J. W. H. Harrison on the day after 

 August Bank Holiday, 1915, at Wolsingham, " in the hilly west of Co. Durham, 

 at about 1200 ft., far away from the sea or even houses." Dr. Chapman showed 

 some dried leaves of birch and hawthorn, with the egg-pockets of Cimbex 

 sylvarum and Trichiosoma tihiale respectively, from which the larvae had 

 hatched, showing the different relation of the pockets to the margin of the leaf 

 in the two species Mr. Donisthorpe announced that on some of our battleships 

 the men were much interested in observation nests of ants ; and it was found 

 that the ants were entirely unaffected by the firing of the great guns. 



The following papers were read : — " On new and little-known Lagriidae and 

 Pedilidae," by G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. " On certain forms of the genus Acraea. 

 A reply to M. Ch. Oberthiir," by H. Eltringham, D.Sc, M.A., F.Z.S.— 

 Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretanj. 



ON NEW EXOTIC SCRAPTIINA. 

 BT G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



This paper contains descriptions of new species of Scraptiina 

 belonging to the British Museum, some of which have remained 

 unnamed in their collection for upwards of 50 years, supplemented by 

 others kindly supplied by Mr. H. E. Andrewes, Mr. Gr. E. Bryant, 

 and Mr. E. W. Ferguson. Like the Xylophilidae, they are of world- 

 wide distribution, but the species are not nearly so numerous. 



Nor are they favourites with collectors, owing to their fragility 

 and to their general uniformity in colour, but few of them having the 

 upper surface maculate. In Britain they are extremely rare insects, 

 but on the continent S. dvhia Oliv. can sometimes be beaten in abund- 

 ance from evergreen oaks in dry places. The largest known forms 

 inhabit South or East Africa (Biojihida Pasc.) and the Straits of 



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