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has kindly supplied the above particulars. C. A. Briggs was elected a Fellow 

 of the Entomological Society of London, in 1877, his brother having joined in 

 1870. Both of them were well known among British Lepidopterists. 



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Entomological Society of London: Wednesdmj, October IHth, 1916. — 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Prof. E. Bugnion, La Luciole, Aix-en- Provence, France, and Rev. Bruce 

 Cornford, 13, Havelock Eoad, Portsmouth, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Prof. Poulton gave an account of some experitaients on spiders with buttei-fly 

 food, and observations on the attacks of birds on butterflies, in British East 

 Africa, by the Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers. Prof. Poulton also called attention 

 to some observations by Dr. E. Hanitsch on the proportions of the female forms 

 of Papilio 2}olytes L., on Singapore Island, and exhibited all the females and a 

 selection of the males of series of P. polytes f. romulus Gr., on which they were 

 based. Mr. Douisthorpe, an ergatandromorph of Myrmica laevinodis which he 

 had taken in his garden at Putney on October 11th. Mr. W. C. Crawley, mer- 

 mithogynes of Lasius fiavms and L. alienus taken at Porlock ; also the alate ? $ , 

 hitherto unknown, of the common ant Aphids, Forda formicaria Hey den and 

 F. viridana Buckton, taken at Porlock with Lasius alieno-niger. Dr. Cockayne, 

 a $ Psychid bred July, 1916, from a larva found on a Japanese dwarf cedar at 

 Hammersmith, together with the larval case. Mr. L. W. Newman, true melanic 

 (unicolorous black) specimens of Eujnthecia lariciata from Wa*-wickahire ; 

 melanic specimens of Boamiia consonaria from Kent; dark type, intermediate 

 and melanic specimens of B. consortaria from Warwickshire ; also, on behalf of 

 Mr. G. B. Oliver, two curious aberrations of the latter species, a ? almost 

 entirely cream-coloured, and a J with both right wings heavily, and the left 

 hind-wing slightly, marked with yellow. Mr. H. Main, a pupal cell in situ of the 

 beetle Dytiscus marginalis, together with a spectroscopic photograph of the 

 jjupa in its cell, showing how it rested on its extremities, the rest of the body 

 being unsupported. Mr. Bedwell, on behalf of Mr. C. J. C. Pool, who was present 

 as a visitor, an exceptionally large <? of Emus hirtus taken near Rochester in 

 September, and a specimen of Megapenthes lugens taken by Mr. D. Cumming, in 

 May, 1915, on holly blossom near Lyndhvirst ; also a living specimen of Elater 

 coccinatus from Waltham Abbey, with examples of E. pomonae and E. sanguino- 

 lentus, and the thorax of each species mounted separately for comparison. 



The following papers were read .—" Falkland Island Diptera," by C. G-. 

 Lamb, M.A., B.Sc. ; communicated by F. W. Edwards, F.E.S. " Observations 

 on the Growth and Habits of the Stick-Insect Carausius moros%is Br.," by H. 

 Ling Roth ; communicated by Prof. Povilton, D.Sc, P.E.S.,etc.— Geo. Wheelkk, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



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