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Treasurer, Mr. R. C. Bradley ; Librarian, Mr. A. H. Martineau, F.E.S. ; Hon. Sec 

 Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, F.E.S. ; and Members of Council, Messrs. H. 

 WiJloughbj Ellis, F.E.S., J. T. Fountain, Aug. D. Iiuuis, and Q. W. Wyun. 



Tlie following were exhibited : — bj Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, the remarkable 

 Lyc<Bnid, Liphyra brassolis. Hew., in various stages, larvae in spirit, pupee and 

 imagines. He gave an account of its remarkable life history as far as it has been 

 discovered by Mr. Dod. He also showed imagines of three species of O'jyris 

 which are also ant-feeding Lycanids, about which, however, less is known at 

 present. Mr. H. Wiiluughby Ellis, two drawers of Carabidce, including the 

 Anisodactylina, Fterostichina, and Marpalina, amongst which were various rare and 

 interesting species. They were shown partly in order to illustrate his new methods 

 of carding, &c., every specimen being carded separately to facilitate examination. 

 Mr. A. H. Martineau, several pupse of a wasp from Mexico, which had been attacked 

 by a large fungus, apparently a species of Cordiceps. It grew out from between the 

 prothorax and mesothorax, splitting the latter. He remarked that it was extra- 

 ordinary that the insects should have reached the pupal stage with such a foe inside. 



— COLBBAN J. WaI>- WEIGHT, Moil. ^Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : February 4tA, 1903. — Professor E. B. 

 PouLTON, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. (President), in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had appointed the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A.. 

 D.Sc, F.L.S., Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S., and Dr. David Sharp, 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 19U3— 1904. 



Mr. T. Ashton Lofthouse, of the Croft, Liuthorpe, Middlesbrough, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited two male specimens of Urina tristis, var. 

 smara'jdina, taken at Pino, Lago Maggiore, on May 30th, 1902, still alive ; and 

 living hirvEC of Crinopteryxfamiliella, second generation, bred from the egg at Reigate, 

 the parent having been taken at Cannes in February, 1901. The Rev. F. D. Morice 

 exhibited, with drawings of the abnormal parts, a hermaphrodite of Eucera 

 longicornis, Linn., showing one i antenna normal, and the other remarkably 

 shortened and with the joints greatly dilated ; the olypeus and labrum one half 

 white (the <J character), and the other half black as in the i? . In the abdomen 

 and legs the ^? character predominated, but one half of the apical parts and 

 genitalia were of the <J character. In a discussion on hermaphrodism which 

 followed, Dr. Sharp stated that Father Wasuiann had announced the discovery that 

 in certain Dipterous parasites of Termites the individual commences imago life 

 as a male and ends as a female— a phenomenon entirely new to entomology, 

 though paralleled in some other classes. Mr. R. McLaclilaii, F.R.S., a living 

 example of Chrysupa vulgaris, Schnd., taken by Dr. Chapman in his house at 

 Reigate. The primary object of the exhibition was to show the manner in which 

 this species, which is ordinarily bright green, assumes a bi-ownish colour, the ab- 

 domen being often marked with reddish spots in hibernating individuals. Mr. 

 W. J. Lucas submitted specimens of Miris ca/caro<««— and seeds of a grass, swept 

 up together by Mr. W. J. Ashdowu on the canal side near Byfleet on July 14th 



