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men (asgeria) and an English one {segerides) for comparison, tlie French form being 

 as far from xgeria in one direction as a'fferides is in the opposite, and possibly a 

 Mendelian variety. Dr T. P. Lucas, who was present as a visitor, a box containing 

 thirty-one species of butterflies taken by him in the neighbourhood of Dui ban in 

 two hours ; he a'so gave a sliort account of the abundance of Lepidoptera at 

 Brisbane, Queensland Mr. E. C. Bedwell, examples of the myrmecophilous beetle, 

 Hetseriusferrugineus, 01., from Box Hill, a species not recorded from Britain for 

 forty-sis years. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, {a) specimens of Formica exsecta (? 

 and $ $ ) from Aviemore in Inverness-shire, pointing out that it had never been 

 recorded from Scotland or the North before ; and (6) specimens of Formica rufa- 

 pratenxis, $ ? , $ $ , pseudogynes and niicrergates from Nethy Bridge, Inverness- 

 shire, and remarked that this was the chief form there. Mr. L. Doncaster, a drawer 

 of Abraxas grossulariata and its var. lacticolor, illustrating breeding experiments, 

 which showed that lacticolor is a Mendelian recessive to groxsulariata, and suggested 

 that the sex-determinants also behave as Mendelian characters, females being 

 dominant, and that <? s are homozygous in respect of sex, 9 s heterozygous. .VIr. 

 J. R. Toinlin, examples of Micropeplus cielatm, ¥a\, taken on marshy ground near 

 Cloghane eo. Kerry, by Dr. Norman Joy and himself, an interesting addition to a 

 small genus, so far, reported only from Germany and Sweden Dr. G-. B. LongslnfP, 

 a number of specimens of CoccineUn \\ -punctata, L., from the White Nile, taken 

 from a migratory flight, on February 16tli, 1909, about forty miles above Khartum ; 

 also a Scarabxus taken by him on the edge of tlie desert within half a mile of the 

 Sphinx, since identified as .S. compressicornis, Klug, an Arabian species. Prof. 

 E. B. Poulton, (n) a beautifully carved scarab of about the sixth century B.C. from 

 Upper Egypt, apparently copied from Scarabseus sacer ; {/)) species of two different 

 genera of Coccinellidse taken in cop. at Tubney, Berks. ; (c) a collection of Diptera 

 from Oxford and the New Forest, with observations, and captured by Mr. A. H. 

 Ilamm ; {d) an example of the rare Castniid moth. Castnia therapon, Kollar (a 

 Brazilian species), taken flying in his conservatory at Broadstone, Dorset, by 

 Dr. A. R. Wallace ; {e) a series of forty-nine females and seven males of Hgpo- 

 limnas mhippus from British East Africa to illustrate the hereditary tendencies of 

 the female forms; {f) examples of Miillerian mimicry in Euplaeinx ; (g) and 

 a collection of small moths captured at sea off south-east coast of Cochin China, 

 sent to him with a short note by Mr. F. Muir and Mr. J. C. Kershaw, Fellows of 

 the Society. Prof. Poulton then made some observations on the use of the saw of 

 the sawfly during ovi position supplementary to the discussion on the subject at a 

 previous meeting, and also communicated " Notes on the Life-History of Aulacodes 

 simplicialis, Snell.," by Mr. Muir and Mr. Kersliaw. Mr. 'V. Hainbrigge Fletcher, 

 a collection of Lepidoptera common to the African, Indian, and Australian regions, 

 some of them occurring in America also, and remarked that it was incredible that, 

 being extremely variable, they should retain their specific faeies over the wide area 

 of distribution in the absence of some fairly constant syngamic connection ; he also 

 showed a collection from Ceylon of Black Ants and their mimics; a mass of the 

 Cingalese bug, Dgsdercus cingulatus, resembling a flower ; and an example of the 

 Coprid beetle, Scarabseus gangeticus taken on the wing carrying small two-winged 

 flies of the family Borboridm. He suggested that the flies were rather passengers in 

 search of their pabulum than parasites. Mr. Hamilton H. Druce communicated a 

 paper " On some new and little-known Neotropical Lycsenidse." Mr. Claude 

 Morley, " A Description of the Superior Wing of the Hgmenoptera, wit;, a view to 

 give a simple and moi-e certain Nomenclature to the Alary System of Jurine." 

 • Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, " On the Colonisation of New Nests of Ants by Myrme- 

 cophilous CoJeoptera." Mr. F. Enock, " New Genera of British Mymaridx (Hall- 

 way)." — H. RoWLAND-BiioWN, Hon. Secretary. 



