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Mr. Charles J. Grist, of " Apsley," Banstead, Surrey ; Mr. Vernon Parry 

 Kitchen, of the Priory, Watford, Herts; and the Eev. W. Mansell Merry, M.A., of 

 St. Michael's, Oxford, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. F. Burr exhibited an earwig, Aptert/gida aravh'idis, Yers., found by 

 Mr. Annandale of Calcutta, in a bos of specimens received from the Andaman 

 Islands. When placed in a small box, it was alone, but next morning there were 

 five larvfe present; (wo disappeared, apparently being consumed by the parent ; 

 and the remaining tlu'ee were those exhibited. Mr. Burr also showed a Locustid of 

 the family Pseudopht/IIidce from Queensland, taken among twigs and plants which 

 it greatly resembled, together with a photograph of the insect in its natural posi- 

 tion. Mr. E. C. Bed well showed three examples of Onorimus nobilis, L., taken at 

 Woolwich on May 20th last under the bark of an old dead cherry tree, and a mal- 

 formed specimen of Lochmsea sufiiralis which had the left posterior tibia bifid for 

 about one-third of its length, and two tarsi, one of which had the joints consider- 

 ably enlarged. Mr. O. E. Janson, a living specimen of Omophlus betulx, Herbst, 

 a beetle not known to occur in Britain, found by his son near Covent Garden, and 

 probably imported. Mr. W. J. Lucas, one <? and three ? ? of Agrion armatum 

 taken this year by Mr. F. Balfour Browne and sent to him alive. Mr. G-. C. 

 Champion showed four specimens of the rare Acrognathiis mandibidarii, G-yll., 

 captured on the wing towards sunset, near Woking, at the end of May. Mr. Selwyn 

 Image, two aberrations of Biston hirtarlus, CI., both females, taken by himself at 

 rest on tree-trunks at Mortehoe, North Devon, April 23rd, 1905. The first aberra- 

 tion was tolerably normal in general colouration, but the anterior half of the fore- 

 wings was much suffused with fuscous, and at the costa broadly emphasized with 

 rich black. The transverse lines on the hind-wings, all unusually distinct, were also 

 dark, and broad throughout. The second aberration was semi-transparent black all 

 over both fore and hind-wings, the veins strongly delineated with black, powdered 

 with ochreous. Mr. W. J. Kaye showed a number of empty pupa-cases of 7ono- 

 soma pendularia to demonstrate the wide variation of methods in the placing of the 

 silken girth round the pupa. Professor E. B. Poulton, leaves of strawberry, 

 Berheris jajionica, and cherry-laurel which had been sent to him by Mr. W. B. 

 Grove, of Handsworth, Birmingham. The leaves had been attacked by minute 

 fungi which, in the strawberry and Berheris, had been identified by Prof. S. H. 

 Vine, F.E.S., as Phyllostictafragaricola and Phyllostictajaponica, respectively. The 

 clean round holes in the laurel leaves had been caused by a fungus identified by 

 Mr. George Massee as Cercospora clrcumscissa, Sacc— the "shot-hole fungus." 

 The attack was local and followed by the death and disappearance of the central 

 portion of the leave-tissue of each patch, leaving a roundish or oval window outlined 

 with brown, sometimes in the form of a narrow line, sometimes spreading periphe- 

 rally into the leaf for a greater or less distance. In the strawberry the edges of the 

 windows were somewhat ragged, but those of the other two leaves had smooth 

 contours, and strikingly resembled the oval transparent areas upon the fore-wings of 

 Kallima inachi.i, paralekfa, &c. — surrounded most conspicuously with a marginal 

 zone of modified colour varying greatly in different individuals as regards both tint 

 and breadth. Professor Poulton had believed that these " windows " of Kallima 

 represented holes gnawed by larvae and that the altered marginal zone reproduced 

 the effect of the attacks of fungi entering along the freshly exposed tissues of the 



