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inaria, Cr., form mimicking; dorippnu. Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of Reliconius 

 amphitrite. Riff., and H. charithonia, Linn. ; also a coloured drawing of H. herma- 

 theiia. Hew. ; he remarked that each of the first two species showed a distinct and 

 well-marked aposome or warnins; character; each of them, 'and especially the first, 

 belonging to an extensive mimetic assemblage. In the third species these two 

 aposemes were combined. Dr. Gr. Gr. Hodgson, who was present as a visitor, a 

 series of Poli/ommatus heUargun from Surrey localities, including a partially gynan- 

 dromorphous ? , two-thirds of the hind-wings with the typical S coloration and 

 markings ; a series of var. ceronus taken in 1907, and specimens showing a variant 

 under-side recurrent in the same locality ; he also exhibited a series of Zygxna 

 trifolii and Z. hlppocrepidis from one locality, including twelve melanic examples 

 of the former, with other common forms and aberrations, probably of the latter, 

 with the sixth spot wanting, or represented by a mere dot. 



Mr. J. C. Kershaw communicated a paper on " The Life-History of Erianthus 

 versicolor, Brunner, an Orthopteron of the family Mastacida;." 



Wednesday, November ISth, 1908.— Mr. H. Eowland-Bbown, Vice-President^ 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. Millais Culpin, M.B. (Lond.), F.R.C.S., of the Palace Hotel, Shanghai; 

 Mr. Eustace Mallabone Eustace, of Challacombe Rectory, Parracombe, R.S.O., 

 North Devon ; Captain F. H. Hardy, R.A.M.C, Medical Officer of the British 

 Central Africa Protectorate ; Mr. Jens Marius Alfred Knuddsen, of Noerre, Den- 

 mark ; Captain Leonard Paul, of Brook House, Eastry S.O., Kent ; and Mr. B. C. S. 

 Warren, of The Avenue, Amersham, Bucks. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited an example of the rare weevil Procas armiUatiis, 

 taken by sweeping near Sherwood Forest in 1908 ; and specimens of Phyllobiiis 

 argentatus and P. maculicoriiis with deciduous mandibles attached. Mr. P. de la 

 Garde sent for exhibition specimens of the following new and rare Coleoptera .— 

 Laccobius purpurascens, Newbery, recently described as new to science, Ceu- 

 t7iorrJig})chtis parvulus, a,x\d Phi/llotreta diademata, recent additions to the British 

 list ; Arena octavii, Sibinia sodalis, Neuraplies longicollis, Cardiophorns equiseti, 

 rare and local species ; and a species of Choleva having the right-hand maxillary 

 palpus in triplicate. Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a specimen of Anthrocera 

 acliiUese from Oban, one of those taken by Mr. Renton and recently recorded as 

 British, with forms found in the South of France ; and of A. fiUpenduIa; and 

 A. exulans from Scotland for comparison. Mr. R. M. Prideaux, a gynandro- 

 morphous specimen of Ltjciena zephyrtis var. lycidaa from the Simplon, taken in 

 July last ; an example of ChryfiopTianus alciphrori var. gordltis ab. ? mida.t, Lowe, 

 from below Salvan in the Rhone Valley ; and a striking aberration of 3feli/sea 

 didi/ma with the spots of the lower wings coalescent in thick splashes, captured 

 below Berisal in July, 1905. Mr. A. Harrison, the resulting series obtained by 

 cross pairings of successive broods of Pierift napi var. hryonise. Mr. L. W. New- 

 man read a note on the life-history and exhibited many examples of the imago of 

 Polygonia c-album ; his observations led to the conclusion that the first twelve to 

 twenty ova laid by the hibernated females are the only ova which produce the var. 

 hutchinsoni, and that this variety is the only form which pairs and produce the 



