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Mr. Donistliorpe exhibited a specimen of Catops montivagus, Heei% new to 

 the British list, taken at Nethy Bridge, on June 27th last, under a dead squirrel. 

 Also C. tristis, Panz., for comparison, the nearest species previously known as 

 British. Professor Poulton, the first, and a part of the second, of three families 

 of P. dardanus. Brown, bred from hippocoon, F., females in the Lagos district by 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn. He stated that these three families were the fu'st successf td 

 attempt, outside Natal, to breed P. dardanus from a known female parent. 

 Professor Poulton drew attention to the following letter, received by 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn from Captain H. V. Neal : — " You have asked me about 

 monkeys eating biitterflies. This is very common as eveiy native will tell you. 

 I have seen it myself. The monkey runs along a path, sees some butterflies 

 fluttering round some filth, goes very quietly, and seizes one by the wings, puts 

 the solid part (body) into his mouth, and then pulls the wings off. The poor 

 butterfly goes down like an oyster." Professor Poulton said that he had now 

 submitted to Professor E. Newstead some of the Coccids which formed the food 

 of 8. lemolea, H. H. Druce. They had been sent in spirits by Mr. W. A. Lamborn 

 and, although unfortunately badly attacked by fungus, had been placed without 

 hesitation in the gentis Dactylopius by Professor Newstead. Professor Poulton, 

 examples of Eurytela dryope, Cramer, and E. hiarbas, Drury, bred by 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn in the Lagos district. Mr. Lamborn had bred considerable 

 families of dryope three times, and hiarbas once from known female parents. 

 The dryope parents produced nothing but dryope, the hiarbas nothing but hiarbas. 

 It was, therefore, almost certain that the two forms were distinct species, at any 

 rate in the Lagos district. Professor Poulton, specimens of /'seudacrxas, 

 captured on December 3rd, 10th, and 17th, 1911, by Dr. Carpenter, in the primitive 

 forest which still exists in the centre of Damba Island. Mr. A. Gibbs, two 

 specimens of the scarce butterfly, Baronia brevicornis. Mr. Douglas Pearson, a 

 drawer of aberrations of the genera Melitsea and Erebia, amongst which were 

 some striking forms of E. stygne, E. ceto, and M. varia, as well as a remarkably 

 variegated ? of M. aurelia, generally speaking the most constant of the group. 

 Dr. Jordan, on behalf of Dr. Malcohn Burr, two specimens of a new Dermapteron, 

 discovered in vast numbers in a cave in Java, for which a new sub-order is 

 required. 



Wednesday, March 20th, 1912. — The President in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 

 Messrs. T. W. Allen, M.A., 30, Blenheim Gardens, Cricklewood, N.W. ; Edward 

 Stuart Augustine Baynes, 120, Warwick Street, Eccleston Square, S.W. ; Gerald 

 Bedford, Entomologist to the Union of South Africa Dept. of Vetei-inary Science, 

 Churchfelles, Horley, and Oudestepoort, Transvaal ; Capt. Kenneth Alan 

 Crawford Doig, E.A.M.C, M.E.C.S., F.E.C.P., Villa Sorrento, York Eoad, Woking ; 

 Messrs. Herbert L. Earl, 35, Leicester Street, Soiithport, Lanes. ; C. Jemmett, 

 Ashford, Kent, and South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent ; 

 E. D'A. Morrell, Authors' Club, 1, Whitehall Court, S.W. ; Charles A. Schunck, 

 Ewelme, Wallingford. The death was announced of Mr. H. J. Adams, of 

 Eoseneath, Enfield. 



