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Borneo, together with the remarkable Chelifer, Thelyphonus lucanoides, and the 

 curious Arachnid Actinacantha arcuata and Gasteracantha vittata. — Ht. J. 

 Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, May 7th, 1913. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles C. Best-Gardner, of Eookwood, Neath, Glamorgan, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



The President announced the death of Mr. Herbert Druce, F.L.S. 



Commander J. J. Walker exhibited a series of Acalyptus carpini, Herbst, var. 

 rufipennis, Gyll., a rare weevil which had not been met with in Britain for many 

 years previously. Mr. N. Charles Rothschild, an example of Txniocampa gracilis 

 captured in April this year at Wood Walton Fen, Hunts. The specimen in 

 qviestion is white all over, without any markings whatever. Mr. Donisthoi-pe, a 

 form of Lasius affinis, Schenck, an ant new to Britain, of which he had found a 

 colony at Tenby in South Wales, on the sand hills, on April 24th this year. 

 Mr. H. Eltringham, a number of the scales composing the anal tuft of the $ of 

 Cnethocampa pityocampa, Schiff., remarkable as being the largest scales known 

 in any Lepidopterous insect. Prof. Poulton, four males and six females of 

 Papilio polytes, L., captured March lOth-October 10th, 1912, by Capt. E. A. Craig 

 on Stonecutters' Island in Hongkong Harbour abovit one mile from the mainland. 

 All the females were of the male-like form cyrus, Hiibn. (= pammon, L.). He 

 also read extracts from letters received from Dr. G. D. H. Carpentei', telling of 

 his success in obtaining, for the first time, fertile ova from a planemoides female 

 of P. dardanus. Prof. Poulton said that the following observation — entirely new 

 to him — had been made by his son. Dr. E. P. Poulton of Guy's Hospital : — 

 " When at Gossl, we were writing in the open air by a lake : a skipper flew up, 

 and tried drinking up the di'ied ink with his proboscis, and to make matters 

 easier, he extruded a drop of liquid from the end of his abdomen, and produced 

 a small smudge by moving about his proboscis. He then sucked up the ink" 

 (August 19th. 1912). Dr. E. P. Povdton believed that the species was Hesperia 

 linea, L. Mr. J. C. F. Fryer exhibited a large series of the wings of Danaine 

 and Euploeine butterflies from Ceylon, remains of these insects which had been 

 observed by him to be eaten by birds, mainly by the so-called " Wood-Swallow," 

 Artamus fuscus ; also a few specimens of the same butterflies which had been 

 killed by Asilidae. 



The following papers were read : — " On the British Mycetophilidse," by 

 F. W. Edwards, F.E.S. " Culicidse from Papua," by Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S., 

 Government Entomologist to the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine. 

 " Pupal Coloration in Papilio polytes," and " The larval habits of the Tineid 

 moth Melasina energa, Meyr.," by J. C. F. Fryer, M.A., F.E.S. 



