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Edwards, cases and females of Psyche villo^ella, P. opaceUa and P.graminella. Mr. 

 Tutt communicated an interesting paper on, "The Nature of Metamorphosis." — Ht. 

 J. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : March \5th, 1899. — Mr. G-. H. Vereall, 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. William Martin Geldart, M.A., of 15, Park Eoad, Norbiton ; and Mr. 

 Hugh Main, B.Sc, of 45, The Village, Old Charlton, Kent ; were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited several specimens of Longitarsus rutilus, 111., a rare 

 British species of Ha It icidm, tfikcn by him on March 11th at Halstow in Kent. 

 Mr. Tutt, a very fine series of Epunda lutulenta captured by the Rev. C. R. N. 

 Burrows last autumn near Mucking in Essex. This series, while agreeing in the 

 main with Borkhausen's typical form, varied inter se in such a manner as to give 

 almost parallel forms to those so well known from Scotland and Ireland, yet they 

 had the ordinary blackish-fuscous ground colour, and not the intense black ground 

 colour peculiar to the latter. Mr. Merrifield, some Lepidoptera collected in the 

 latter half of May and the first week of June near Axolo (Venetia) , Riva, and Bozen. 

 They included some very fine specimens of Syrichthus carthami, a very large 

 Syntomis phegea, and examples of Pararge yEgeria intermediate in colour between 

 the Northern and Southern European forms. Mr. G. T. Porritt, a series of extreme 

 forms of Arctia luhricipeda, Yav-fasciata, and also some examples of what appeared 

 to be a new form of the species, of which he had bred a few during each of the past 

 two seasons. Mr. 0. E. Janson, an inflorescence of Arauja albens, Don., together 

 with a butterfly which had been entrapped by getting its proboscis jammed in the 

 slit between the anther-wings of one of the flowers. It was found by Mr. C. J. 

 Pool at Monte Video. Mr. Grahan, having since examined the beetle from Peru 

 shown by Mr. Jacoby at the previous meeting, he was now able to say definitely that 

 it was a Longicorn, and represented a new genus to be placed in the group Acantho- 

 cinides of the family Lamiidce. He exhibited this beetle along with a species of 

 Diahrotica and a species of Lema from Peru, in order to show the remarkably close 

 resemblance in coloration between the three species. 



April Uh, 1899.— The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Frederick George Dawtrey-Drewitt, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.Z.S., of 2, 

 Manchester Square, W. ; Mr. William E. Ryles, B.A., of 11, Waverley Mount, 

 Nottingham ; and Mr. Albert Wade, of 1, Latham Street, Preston ; were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Blandford exhibited insects of different orders collected by Dr. Albert L. 

 Bennett in West Africa, and read some notes by Dr. Bennett on the habits of the 

 Goliath beetles. In reply to the remai'ks which followed. Dr. Bennett stated that 

 the male beetles use their cephalic horns in fighting with one another, as well as for 

 puncturing the bark of vines in order to bring about a flow of the sap, upon which 

 they feed. The Rev. Canon Fowler, a photograph of a large bee's nest found in an 

 open hedge near Wragby in Lincolnshire. Mr. McLachlan, young larvse of a 

 " Locust," received from Mr. E. A. Floyer, Director-General of Telegraphy in 

 Egypt, and said by him to have caused the Calotropis trees in Nubia to be in a 

 moribund condition. The larvte were identified by Mr. Burr as those of a species 

 of Poecilocerus, probably P. vittatus, Klug. Mr. Burr, a specimen of Acridium 



