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the Cauca valley. Heliconiiis doris in botli its ved and blue liind-winged forms 

 produced black fore-wing aberrations known as abtecfa. Heliconiun ismenus also 

 occasionnlly produced a much darkened fore-wing. Dr. T. A. Chapman, pupse of 

 Pieris brassias to illustrate some temperature experiments made by him on larvae 

 of that species Placed in boxes, some at 56° Fahr. took four or five or even 

 more days to ])upate, others at 86° had all pupated in 48 hours in each lot so 

 treated. The pupation of a number seemed to be so accelerated that they had not 

 time to make their suspension complete or correctly, and of these a good many did 

 not pupate satisfactorily ; the girth catching them in an awkward place, or the 

 larval skin unsuccessfully passing it, &c. Mr. E. C Bedwell, eight examples 

 of Odontoscelis dorxalis, Fabr., taken at the roots of Erodium on June 21st last, in 

 the neighbourhood of Lowestoft, Suffolk : the first record of the species in Britain. 

 Professor T. Hudson Beare, a specimen of Cry ptamorpha dexjardinsi, Guer., taken 

 by Mr. J. Taylor of Sandown, I.W., on a bunch of bananas, on August 30th last. 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, examples of Chastocnema arida, Foudras, ii species 

 of Coleoptera new to Britain, taken near -Ryde, August 26th, 1909 ; and varieties 

 of Cassida nobilis (also exhibited by Mr. J. W. H. Dollman), taken at St. Helens, 

 I.W., in August, 1909. Mr. Donisthorpe, two examples of Formica san(juinea, 

 Latr., one being half S half $ , and the other half <? half ? , taken in Bewdley 

 Forest, in July ; and of one example of Myrmica scabruiodis, Nyl., half ^ half $ , 

 taken by Mr. Dollman, at Ditchling, in September last. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., communicated a further series of photographs 

 and "Notes on the Ancillary Appendages of species of Pleheius, to illustrate the 

 relationships of Plebeius argus (aegon)." Mr. R. Shelford, M.A., F.L'.S., F.Z.S., 

 a paper " On two Remarkable Forms of Mantid Oothecse." Mr. C. T. Pead, 

 " Notes on some Rare or Little-known South African Homoptera," with examples 

 of the several species. Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg, '• Note on the Liability of 

 Butterflies to Attacks by Birds and Lizards," being an account of his observations 

 in Colombia and Ecuador on the subject treated in Mr. G. A.K. Marshall's paper 

 recently published in the Society's Transactions. Mr. Marshall congratulated 

 Mr. Rosenberg on his extremely interesting notes, and said that he had been 

 endeavouring to stimulate entomologists in the Tropics to make observations on the 

 behaviour of birds, &c., towards butterflies by sending copies of his paper to them. 

 The President, Mr. G. C. Champion, Mr. J. W. Tutt, Dr. T. A. Chapman, and other 

 Fellows continued the discussion. 



Wednesday, November 3rd, 1909.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. C. Turner Clark, of 90, The Mall, Newport, Isle of Wight ; Mr. Reginald 

 Leigh Leigh-Clare, c/o Messrs. Allen and Gledhill, Singapore ; Mr. Thomas Dobson, 

 of Park Avenue, The Park, Sharpies, Bolton ; Mr. Frank James Evans, of the 

 Botanical Department, Trinidad, British West Indies ; Dr. T. P. Lucas, Wakefield's 

 Buildings, Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Australia; and Dr. Gilbert William Nicholson, 

 M.A., M.D., of the Cancer Hospital, London, S.W., were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a living Buprestid beetle of the genus 

 Chrysobothris, found in an trchid-house in the north of London. It was probably 



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