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Mr. J. R. Davidson, of Drumsliengh Gardens, Edinburgli, was elected a Fellow 

 of the Societj. 



The President said that since the last meeting the University of Oxford had con- 

 ferred upon Commander J. J. Walker, R.N., one of the Secretaries, the degree of 

 M.A , honoris causa, for services to Entomological Science. 



Mr. Kdward Harris showed living larvae of the Longieorn beetle, Cordylompr'i 

 suturalis, Chevr., taken from a log of mahogany imported from the Setondi district 

 of the Gold Coast, together with the perfect insect, which was dead at the time the 

 discovery was made. Mr. A. T. Rose, a remarkable melanic specimen of Catocala 

 mipta, taken by Mr. Lewis in his garden at Hornsey, in September. The colo- 

 ration of the lower wings was of a dull brown, and all the markings of the upper 

 wings strongly intensified. Dr. Norman H. Joy, Coleoptera taken during a three days' 

 trip to Lundy Island in August, including M elanophthalma (Listing uenda. Com., a 

 species new to Britain ; Stenus ossiuni, var. insularis, a variety apparently new to 

 science ; and a series of Ceuthorrhynchus contractus, var. pallipes, Crotch, a form 

 peculiar to the island. Mr. Alfred Sich, examples of Argyresthia illumino.tella, Z., 

 two of the four specimens taken near Hailsham, Sussex, on June 15th this year. 

 They were beaten off Pinus, and until examined with a lens were supposed to be 

 < tcncroatoma piniariella, of which species two were also exhibited for comparison. 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas, the larva, cocoon, and the subsequent imago of an " ant-lion," 

 Myrmeleon formicarius, from two Spanish larvfje given him by Dr. T. A. Chapman 

 last autumn. The difference in size between the small larva and the large perfect 

 insect was remarkable. He also showed a living ? of Stenohothrus rufipes, taken in 

 the New Forest at the end of August, and kept alive feeding on grass. Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, several examples of Lymexylon navaZe, L.,from the New Forest, whence it 

 had not been previously recorded. Mr. A. H. Jones, series of Lycoena argus var. Tiypo- 

 chiona, Ramb. (osgon, Schiff.), taken on the North Downs this year, approaching the 

 form L. argyrognomon, taken not uncommonly in the Rhone Valley. Together with 

 these he had arranged for comparison typical British L. argus, L., L. var. Corsica 

 from Tattone, Corsica, and a series of L. argyrognomon, Brgstr. (argus, auctorum), 

 from Chippis near Sierre. Col. J. W. Yerbury, specimens of Hammerschmidtia 

 ferruginea,¥\n-, the first authentic British specimens taken at Nethy Bridge this year ; 

 Microdon latifrons, Lw., wrongly identified as M. devius, and under this name 

 recorded in Verrall's "British Flies"; Chamcesyrphus scoevoides, Fin, a single 

 specimen swept on June 15th, 1905, in the Aberncthy Forest near Forest Lodge; 

 and Cynorrhina fallax, L., which insect occurred in some numbers at Nethy Bridge 

 during the same month. Mr. H. J. Turner, series of four species of the genus Coleo- 

 phora, C. alcyonipennella, C. lixella, C. alhitarsella , and C. hadiipennella, together 

 with the larval cases mounted in situ on the ruined leaves of their respective food 

 plants ; also, living larvse and their cases, of Qoniodoma limoniella on Statice limo- 

 niuni, Coleophora ohtusella on Juncus maritimus, and C. glaucicelella (?) on Juncus 

 glaucus , which three species he had just received from Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, who 

 had obtained them in the Isle of Wight. Commander J. J. Walker read a paper 

 by Mr. A. M. Lea entitled " The Blind Coleoptera of Australia and Tasmania," and 

 exhibited specimens of Illaphanus stephensi, Macl., from Watson's Bay, Sydney, 

 N.S.W., and Phycoclms graniceps, Broun, and P. sulcipennis. Lea, from Hobart, 

 Tasmania. — H. Rowland Brown, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



