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tlie male. He also exhibited a male Platychiru.s slicticu.i, and a female Microdon 

 (levins from Ellliam and Slioreiiam (Kent) respeetiveiy, and three small dark 

 examples of !St/rphiis ballealus, taken near Broekenhurst, where the form was not 

 uncommon, in October, 1902. Mr. .M. Burr, two species of Pht/Uium from Ceylon, 

 sent by Mr. Grreen, P. biocu/aium, Gray (^ eruri/olium, Hami., and scythe, Gray), 

 and P. athanysus, Westw. Mr. A. .J. Cliitty, a box of insects, taken between 

 S(!ptember 22nd and October 7tli last, from a decayed fence or liedge made of 

 different kinds of wood, with the liark left on. The uprights of the hedge were 

 chiefly of birch. The exhibit comprised about a hundred species, of which seventy- 

 nine or eighty were Coleuptera. Four species of beetles, viz. : two species of 

 Po'jonucheriix, tlie scarce Macrocephalus alhinus, and (he extremely' rare Trupideren 

 iiiveiro-itris mimicked the surroundings of lichen-covered bark, and one, Acaltes 

 turbatux, resembled buds. Of the rest, there were five species of Dromius, Anisoxya 

 fuscula, 111.; Orrhexia minor, Clinocara tetramera, Thoms., and Telratoma ancora. 

 A discussion followed, in which the President, Professor Poulton, and others took 

 part. Mr. R. Adkin, a hybrid Selenia bilunaria x S. tetralunaria, together with 

 spring and summer examples of both species for comparison. The hybrid presented 

 some of the markings of each of its parents, the crescentic blotch at the apex of the 

 fore-wings, and the band on the hind-wings closely following tetralunaria, but no 

 trace of the dark spot usually so distinct on each of the wings of that species, 

 especially in the summer euiergence, was visible, while the "second line" of the 

 fore- wings closely followed bilunaria. In colour it more nearly resembled that of 

 the summer brood of ie^ra/MwarJa.— II. Rowlanu-Bkown, Hon. Sec. 



6'Jtli Annual Meeting, January 'list, 1903. — The President in the Chair. 



After an abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, showing a satisfactory balance in 

 the Society's favour, had been read by Mr. A. H. Jones, one of the Auditors, Mr. 

 H. Goss, one of the Secretaries, read the Report of the Council. It was then 

 announced that the following had been elected Officers and Council for the Session 

 1903—1904. President, Professor Edward B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. ; 

 Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., 

 and Mr. Henry Rowland-Brown, M.A. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, 

 F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of Council, Colonel Charles T. Bingham, F.Z.S., Mr. 

 Malcolm Burr, B.A., P.L.S., Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, F.Z.S., Mr. Arthur John 

 Chitty, M.A., Mr. Hamilton U. C. J. Druce, F Z.S., The Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.L.S., Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., Professor Louis Compton Miall, 

 F.R.S., the Rev. Francis D. Morice, M.A., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., B'.L.S., and Colonel John W. Yerbury, R.A. 

 It was announced that Professor Poulton, the new President, would appoint the 

 Rev. Canon Fowler, Professor Meldola, F.R.S., and Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., as 

 Vice-Presidents for the Session 1903—4. Canon Fowler, the retiring President, 

 delivered an Address. A vote of thanks to the President for his Address, and 

 for his services during the past year, was proposed by Professor Poulton, seconded 

 by Professor Meldola, and carried. The President replied. A vote of thanks to 

 the Officers was proposed by Professor Meldola, seconded by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 

 and carried. Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Goss, and Mr. Rowland-Brown replied.— H. 

 Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



