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J8th, 1912. Some were of the var. isis, and some of the ? 9 of the ab. napsea, 

 but the most remarkable were very pronounced examples of theab. suffusa, Wh., 

 botli g and ? , some of the latter being almost completely black. Also on 

 behalf of Mr. E. M. Prideaux, a series of unusually blue 9 9 of PolyommaUis 

 icarus, taken in the spring- of this year in the Westerham district. Mr. L. W. 

 Newman, a long and remarkably constant series of M. aurinia, bx'ed from two 

 batches of ova laid by North Cornwall $ ? ; also, on behalf of Mr. G. B. Oliver, 

 a picked and varied series bred by the latter, also from North Cornwall larva. 

 Both series were bred this year. Mr. W. A. Lamborn, two larva and two bred 

 imagines with corresponding pupa-cases of the Lyctenid butterfly E^iliphyra 

 miriUca, Hall. The larvae were found in a nest of the ant (Ecophylla smarag- 

 dina, var. longinoda. Prof. Poulton read a letter from Peradeniya, Ceylon, 

 from Mr. E. E. Green, and exhibited the enclosed small cocoons of Epicephala 

 chalybacma, Meyr. The curiovis little biibl^le-shaped structures along the 

 dorsimi of the cocoon may perhaps be produced in the same way as the bodies 

 on the cocoons of Deilemera a7itinorii. Mr. J. A. de Gaye, who was present as 

 a visitor, showed examples of the West African Agaristid moth, Mcasaga 

 monteironis, Butler, and the Hesperiid, Pyrrhochalcia iphis, Drury, which are 

 respectively model and mimic, captured by him on the same day at the same 

 plant. Mr. Donisthorpe, a specimen of Thorictus J'orcli, var. bonnnirci, Wasm., 

 a small beetle, fastened on to the antenna of an ant, Myrmccocystus bicolor, F. ; 

 also a specimen of the Culicid, Harpagomyia splcndens, Meig., with the ant, 

 Cremastogastcr difformis, Smith, from Batavia, where Jacobson had observed the 

 fly being fed by the ant. Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a living Buprestid hirva (species 

 tuicertain) which liad been found in Messrs. Allen and Hanbury's works at 

 AVare, in roots of sandalwood. Dr. F. A. Dixey made some remarks on the 

 Pierine genus, Pinacopteryx, illustrating them by exhibiting male and female 

 specimens of most of the species, side by side witli which were shown thfawings 

 made to scale of the plmnules characteristic of each form. Mr. A. Bacot, an 

 Acridiine Orthopteron, from the Benguella Plateau, which bore a very perfect 

 resemblance to the scorched grass stems, on one of which it was resting ; also 

 specimens of the Dijiteron, Glossina palpalis, var. ivcllmani, Austen, from 

 Catumbella Kiver. Mr. Eltringham, two specimens of an unusually large 

 Lasiocampid larva which had been presented to the Hope Department by 

 Mr. C. A. Foster, who took them in Sierra Leone. Prof. Poulton suggested 

 that the larvae might perhaps be Gonometa subfascia. Walk., or G. regia, Aiiriv. 

 The following papers were read : " On new species of Fossorial Hymenoptera 

 from S. Africa, chiefly Elidinae." By Rowland E. Turner, F.E.S. " On the 

 Life-History of Pseudacrsea eurytus hoblcyi, Neave. By G. H. D. Carpenter, 

 B.A., B.M., B.Ch., F.E.S. " On some Luminous Colcoptera from Ceylon." By 

 E. Ernest Green, F.E.S. 



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



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : Miss Margery H. 

 Briggs, B.Sc, 7, Winterstoke Gardens, Mill Hill, N.W. ; Messrs. Edward 

 Ballard, Zombo, Nyassaland ; George Trevor Lyle, Bank House, Brockenhurst ; 



