20 [January, 



Entomological Society of London : Xovewber loth, 1899.— Mr. G. H. 

 Vereali. President, in the Chair. 



The Prpsident announced the death of Dr. C Gr. Thomson, one of the Honorary 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Ernest Charles Bedwell, of 27, Lougliborough Road, Brixton, S.W. ; Mr. 

 Harry Hadeii May, of Redlands, Hillbury Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. ; and Mr. H. 

 A. Varty, of 61, Queen's Road, Aberdeen ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited four examples of a species of CurcuUonidce — 

 Cleonus suleirostris — taken on red sandy soil at Barr's Hill, near Oxford. These 

 examples, he pointed out, were of a reddish tint, harmonising with the colour of the 

 soil on which tliey were found, and in marked contrast to that of normal grey 

 specimens, some of which, taken at Deal and Reading, he showed for comparison. 

 The President, specimens of Chersodfomia hirta, a Dipterous insect, which were 

 found by Colonel Yerbury under sea-weed at Brora in August, 1899. Mr. Gr. W. 

 Kirkaldy, two species of Hemiptera of economic interest, one a Pyrrhocorid — 

 Di/sdercus cingulatus (Fabr.) — sent by Mr. E. E. Green from Ceylon, where it was 

 found appearing in abundance on the cotton plants, the other a Psyllid — Aleuro- 

 dicus Dugesii, Cockl. — forwarded by M. A. Duges, who stated that it is attacking the 

 white mulberries in Mexico. Mr. J. H. Leech contributed Part III of his paper on 

 " Lepidoptera Heterocera from Northern China, Japan, and Corea." 



December (jth, 1899.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Francis Gayner, of 20, Queen Square, W.C., and Mr. F. B. Jennings, of 

 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, N., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a specimen of Colias marnoana, Rogenh., taken, 

 with other examples, by Lieut. Constable, R.N., at Massowab, on the Red Sea; he 

 considered this form to be only a dwarfed race of C. Hyale, Linn., and for com- 

 parison with it he showed specimens of the var. nilgherriensis, Feld., from Central 

 India, and of the var. slmoda, De L'Orza, from Japan. Dr. Chapman, a series of 

 specimens, selected from various English collections, together with a few foreign 

 examples, in order to illustrate the English forms found within the genus Fiimea ; 

 also specimens of *e/)«a»w, Je^MZiwa and salicolella, and remarked that the first of 

 these species was very properly placed b} Mr. Tutt in a new genus (Bacotia), since 

 it is a transitional form, having as great aiRnities with Solenobia as with Fumea; 

 while the other two species, though perhaps not distantly allied to Fumea, did not 

 truly belong to that genus, and were well placed by Mr. Tutt in a new genus 

 (Protitia). Dr. Chapman then I'ead some notes relating to the genus Fumea, and to 

 characters, chiefly drawn from structure, by which the different species may be dis- 

 tinguished. Mr. Malcolm Burr called attention to Dr. Sharp's paper on " The 

 modification and attitude of Idolum diaboJictim," recently published in the " Pro- 

 ceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society " (vol. x, part iii) ; he exhibited 

 the plate, drawn after nature by Mr. Muir, which illustrates the paper, pointing out 

 that no drawing of this kind, showing a Mantid in its natural colours simulating the 

 petals of a flower, had hitherto been published ; also species of Mantodea of various 

 genera, to show the different modifications by means of which insects of this group 

 are made to resemble leaves and flowers. Mr. Kenneth J. Morton communicated a 

 paper, entitled, " Descriptions of new species of Oriental RhyaeophilcB." — J. J. 

 Walker and C. J. Gahan, Hon. Secretaries. 



