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what the normal marking was. Dr. Chapman, a hirg-e nnmljer of teratological 

 specimens lent him by Mr. Tutt, Mr. Pickett, Dr. Hodgson, and others, to 

 illustrate the paper he subsequently read, entitled " Notes on Teratological 

 Specimens." — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wediiesday, November 2nd, 1910. — 

 Dr. F. A. DixEY, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. E. Andi-ewes, of 8, North Grove, Highgate, N. ; Mr. J. R. Charnley, 

 of Lyndhurst, Fulwood, Preston ; Rev. Archibald Downes-Shaw, of Kettlestone 

 Rectory, Fakenham, Norfolk ; Mr. G. E. Frisby, of 40, Wincbnill Street, 

 Gravesend ; Mr. O. M. Schmidt Gottmans, of 2, Forest Vilhis, Whipps Cross 

 Road, Leytonstone, N.E. ; Mr. Ernest Purnell Jones, of 7, Nantwich Road, 

 Crewe ; and Count Emilio Turati, of 4, Piazza S. Alessandro, Milan ; were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Professor T. Hudson-Beare exhibited examples of the rare British beetle, 

 Pferostlchus aterrimus, recently taken by him at Stalham, Norfolk. Commander 

 J. J. Walker brought for exhibition the following rare Coleoptera -. — (a) a 

 specimen of Lathrohium lomjipenne, Fairm., a beetle recently introduced as a 

 British species, taken at Tubney, Berks, Jvily 29th, 1909 ; (b) a specimen of a 

 remarkable ants'-nest beetle from the Atherton district, N.S.W., described by 

 Mr. A. M. Lea under the name Tretothorax cleistostoma, and regarded by him 

 as representing a new family of Coleoptera, the Tretothoracidse ; also the ant, 

 Odontomachiis coriarius, Mayr, with which the beetle was found ; and two 

 specimens of Thomosis guanicola, Broun, a beetle allied to Sphieridium, &c., 

 taken by Dr. L. Cockayne among penguin guano on the Bounty Islands, 490 

 miles south-east of New Zealand. Mr. J. le B. Tomlin also exhibited examples 

 of the following British Coleoptera -. (a) Macronyclius 4-tuherculatus, Miill. 

 recently re-discovered in tlie River Teme, and not taken in Britain for at least 

 40 years ; {h) Enicmus histrio, Joy and Tomlin, a new species described in the 

 November niunber of the Ent. Mo. Mag. ; (c) Laccobius regularis, Rey, from 

 small sphagnum pools at Newbury, introduced i-ecently by Dr. Sharp as 

 L. scutellaris, Mots., but now considered by him as more correctly named 

 regularis, Rey ; {d) Clonus longicollis, Bris., taken at Harewood Forest on 

 Verbascum thapsus on June 26th, 1909, the only previous captures in Britain 

 being by Mr. Moncreaff at Portsmouth in 1871 ; and (e) Bemhidium tibiale, 

 Duft., a melanic example taken this summer by the River Monnow. Mr. 

 Tomlin also exhibited, on behalf of Dr. David Sharp, examples of (f) Laccobius 

 ytenensis. Sharp, a new species also described in the cvirrent Ent. Mo. Mag. ; 

 and (g) Crepidodera impressa, Fab., a littoral species recently introduced to the 

 British List by Dr. Sharp from Hayling Island. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, an 

 Asilid v/hich he had taken at Macugnaga in August with a dead ? Nomiades 

 semiargus in its mouth. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, a specimen of Claviger 

 longicornis, Miill., with its host Lasius umbratus, Nyl., taken by Father Schmitz 

 in Germany. He said this species should occur in Britain with the same ant, 

 and that Father Schmitz had told him that April was the best month in which 



