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tion for the past three or four years ; the example being the first authentic one 

 observed, although the male had been searched for since the time of Linna;us. Mr. 

 J. J. Richardson exhibited a series of exotic Lepidoptera mounted in frames, with 

 slips of glass so arranged as to allow of the examination of the under-sides. Mr. 

 J. R. Charnley, F.E.S., showed 14 specimens of insects in amber from the North 

 Coast of Germany, both the insects and clearness of some of the pieces of amber 

 being much admired. Anisotoma furva from Crosby was exhibited by Mr. Wilding, 

 and a selection of British Lepidoptera by Mr. W. Mansbridge, F.E.S., &c. — E. J. B. 

 Sopp a)id J. R. le Tomlin, Son. Secretaries . 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, December 1th, 1904. — 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Horace A. Byatt, B.A., of the Colonial Office, and Mr. J. C. Winterscale, 

 F.Z.S., of Kurangan, Kedah, Penang, Straits Settlements, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited Qiiedias nigrocaeruleus, taken by Mr. H. 

 C. DoUman in a rabbit hole at Ditchiing, Sussex, this being the fourth recorded 

 British specimen. Professor T. Hudson Beare, a specimen of the rare Longicorn, 

 Tetropium castaneum, L., taken about two years ago in the vicinity of the quays at 

 Hartlepool, and probably introduced. Mr. G. J. Arrow, a series of Passalidse from 

 the Burchell Collection mentioned in his paper recently read before the Society, and 

 remarked that Burchell had at the time of their capture some seventy years ago 

 already noted their powers of producing a musical sound. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 

 drawings prepared for exhibition in the Natural History Museum illustrating the 

 development of the front wing in the pupa of the Tusser Silk Moth, showing the 

 relation of the tracheae to the veins ; also some coffee berries from Uganda injured 

 by a small beetle belonging to the Scolytidse, and two Coleopterous larvte from the 

 Burchell Collection from Brazil, submitted to him for determination by Prof. 

 Poulton. One was a Heteromerous larva two inches long, much resembling the 

 \ax\& oi Helops ; the more interesting one was noted by Burchell to be luminous, 

 and appeared to be the larva of an Elaterid. Mr. J. J. Walker, the type-specimen 

 of Haplothorax barchelli, G. R. Waterhouse, from the Hope Collection, Oxford 

 University Museum, a remarkable Carabid discovered by Burchell in St. Helena; 

 it is now exceedingly rare in its sole locality, the late Mr. Wollaston, during his 

 visit to the island in 1875-6, having entirely failed to find the beetle alive, though 

 its dead and mutilated remains were often met with. The President, cases showing 

 the results of breeding experiments upon Papilio cenea conducted by Mr. G. F. 

 Leigh, who had for the first time bred the trophonius form from trophonius itself; 

 also a photograph, taken by Mr. Alfred Robinson of the Oxford University Museum, 

 showing the Xylocopid model and its Asilid mimic exhibited by Mr. E. E. Green 

 at a previous meeting ; the example was particularly interesting, inasmuch as Mr. 

 Green's record of the mimic circling round its model tended to support the view 

 that the bee is the prey of the fly. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman read a paper on Erebia palarica, n. sp., and Erebia stygne, 

 chiefly in regard to its association with E. evias in spain ; describing Erebia pala- 

 rica, he said it was a new species from the Cantabrian range, phylogenetically a 



