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Meade -Waldo, " On a Golleotion of Butterflies and Moths made iu Maroceo, 1901- 

 02." The species enumerated included a Cttnonympha and a Sati/rus new to 

 science. 



Wednesday , November Id, 19u5.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. J. W. H. Harrison, B.Sc. (Lond.) of The Avenue, Birtley, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited (1) Panurgus mnricei, Friese, a species of bee 

 new to science, taken by him near Gibraltar, of which it was remarkable that 

 whereas species of this genus are entirely black, in this insect the S face was entirely 

 and that of the "i^ partly briglit yellow, the legs partly yellow, m\A the abdomen spotted 

 down each side very much as in Avthidium ; and (2) the unique type specimen of 

 Heriades fascial us, Friese, a c? of the Chelostnma group, taken by him at Jericho in 

 1889, in which again, while all its congeners are practically unicolorous, the abdo- 

 men is brightly banded, not unlike that of a wasp. A discussion followed as to the 

 reason of the peculiar coloration in the species under review, the exhibitor pointing 

 out that the colour mimicry in this insect could not be due to parasitism, both 

 Panurgus and Heriades being industrious genera. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.B..S., 

 expressed his opinion that the species shown were mimics, though industrious. He 

 also remarked that in the case of some Algerian Aculeates the bright pubescent 

 colouring of the head might assist as a protection to the insect when looking out of 

 its hole in the sunshine. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse mentioned that with some Bupres- 

 tidpp the front of the head in the S was bright, but unicolorous in the $ ; a pecu- 

 liarity also observed by Mr. AT. Jacoby in the genus Oryptncephalus. Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas showed a ^ specimen of the earwig Forficnla auricularia taken at Warwick 

 in September last, with a drawing of the cerci (forceps), which were very abnormal, 

 the broader basal part of the two appearing to be more or less fused together, while 

 the forceps themselves were jointed to the basal part. The case, he said, was 

 interesting because in cockroaches, &c., the cerci are regularly jointed. Mr. G. C 

 Champion, various interesting insects from Guatemala recently received from Sefior 

 Rodriguez, including Heterosternus rodriguezi, Cand., Pantodinus hlvgi, Burm., 

 Plusiotis adelaida, Hope, and a species of Orthoptera greatly resembling a dead 

 withered leaf, possibly a new species of Mimetica. Mr. Norman H. Joy, two 

 species of Coleopt.pra new to the British Islands : Lfemophlosns monilis, F., taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Streatley, Berks, and Dacne fowleri, n. sp., from Bradfield, 

 with specimens of D. humeralis and D. rufifrons for comparison. Mr. H. St. J. Donis- 

 thorpe, a specimen of Agathidium (badium, Kr.), discovered last year in Cumberland, 

 and since taken by him in Durham, and examples of Prionocyphon serricorvis, the 

 larva of which he had found under water in the boles of trees in the New Forest. 

 Mr. F. A. Dixey, preparations of the scents of some African butterflies collected by 

 him, with the assistance of Br. G. B. Longstaff, during the recent visit of the British 

 Association, together with specimens of the species investigated. A discussion on the 

 presence and use of scents in various Orders of insects followed, in which the Pr'isi- 

 dent, Professor Poulton, Col. C. T. Bingham, Dr. Longstaff, and other Fellows joined. 

 Mr. P. I. Lathy, F.Z.S., communicated " A Contribution towards the knowledge of 

 African Rhopalocera." Col. C. T. Bingham contributed a paper entitled " A New 

 Species of the Hymenopterous genus Megalyra, Westwood, by J. Chester Bradley, 

 Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A." — H. Rowland Beown, Hon. Secretary. 



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