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Edwards, F.L.S. and H. J. Turner, F.E.S; Cou7icil : K. Adkin, P.E.S., 

 C. W. Colthrup, T. W. Cowham, A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., A. Russell, F.E.S., 

 W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S., and A. Sich, F.E.S. Votes of thanks were passed to 

 the President and other Oflicers. 



Special Meetinu. — It was unanimously agreed to appoint an Editor of 

 Proceedings as an additional Officer, and to increase the number of the Council 

 from seven to nine. The new rviles to take effect as from January 1st, 1913. 



Ordinary Meeting. — Mr. Buckstone exhibited several short series of bred 

 Phragmotobia fuliginosa, representing second and third broods from Aberdeen, 

 first brood from Hoi'sley, and second brood fi'oni Wendover. Mr. Bacot, an 

 enlarged photograph of an Indian flea, reputed to be one of the carriers of 

 plague. Mr. Dunster, specimens of Dicycla oo, Mellinia orellaris, and Miselia 

 oxyacanthx from Winchmore Hill. — H. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, Decemher ith, 1912. — 

 The Eev. F. D. Moricb, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. A. Foster, Worcestershire Eegiment, Beechwood, Iflfley, Oxford, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The President announced the death of Mr. W. F. Kirby, formerly Honorary 

 Secretary of the Society. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a diagram of the ootheca of a Mantis and read 

 notes upon it. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a number of butterflies with one moth 

 belonging to the principal Miillerian Association as found in Costa Rica. A 

 number of specimens, both set and unset, of the principal Miillerian group from 

 Caracas, Venezuela, were also shown, to exhibit the far closer resemblance of 

 the undersides than the uppersides. From Santos, S.E. Brazil, were shown the 

 principal members of the synaposematic group to call attention to a member of 

 the group that had not been previously mentioned. The species was Pericopis 

 isse, a Hypsid moth. Dr. G. B. Longstaff, a small box of Chrysids, and started 

 an interesting discussion on the means by which the metallic coloration was 

 produced. Mr. G. T. Porritt, a series of Platycleis roeselii taken by himself at 

 Trusthorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast, this year. Mr. W. A. Lamborn supple- 

 mented his previous account of two families of bred Leuceronia argia by 

 referring to a short series of females taken at Oni between April 1st, 1910, and 

 January 2i)th, 1911, a period including a whole wet season and a part of two 

 dry seasons. Mr. J. A. Simes, a short sei-ies of P. apollo from the Government 

 of Viatka, with a series from the Alps of Dauphiny and Switzerland for com- 

 parison. Prof. Poulton said that at his desire. Miss Fountaine had kindly 

 prepared an account of the extremely interesting family of Papilio dardanus, 

 reared by her in 1909 — the only Natal family at present known in which cenea 

 is other than the most numerous of all the forms. Prof. Poulton exhibited a 

 (? specimen of Planema arenaria, taken by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter on Bugalla, 

 one of the Sesse Islands. PI. arenaria had been shown by Dr. Karl Jordan to be 

 a pale eastern geographical race of the fulvous PI. consanguinea of the tropical 



