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France. Mr. H. Page, two beautiful series of Polyommatus escheri and C(£no- 

 nympha dorus from Abries and Digne x'espectively, JiJiy, 1910. Mr. L. W. 

 Newman, long and varied series of closely inbred Enjiomos alniaria showing the 

 washed out appearance produced, a fine set of the melanic form of the species, 

 hybrid Smerinthus ocellatus $ x Amorphapopuli 9 (both S s and a ? ), a long series 

 of hand-painted figures of the finest aberrations bred by him ; on behalf of Mr. 

 Marshall, a BipMhera orion with only the orbicular spots present, Nodua subrosea 

 from the Bond collection, Melitsea artemis Avith heavily marked white wedges 

 on all the wings, &c. Mr. W. B. Pratt, ab. coracina of Melitasa athalia from 

 West Sussex, and M. aurinia with under-side of hind-wings having a black 

 base and an extremely wide white central band. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a complete 

 transitional series between Heliconius phyllis form anacreon and H. phyllis form 

 vcnusta from the same locality in East Bolivia. Mr. T. L. Barnett, a large 

 number of species taken by him this August in Wicken Fen, including Tapino- 

 stola hellmaniii, Leucania straminca, Nudaria scncx, Hcnninia cribralis, Bankia 

 argentula, Cwnobia rufa, &g., a bred specimen of Mgeria andrcniformis and its 

 pupa case, and specimens of JE. cidiciformis, which had been somewhat common 

 at Darenth Wood. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, November 16th, 1910. — 

 Dr. F. A. DiXEY, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The names of those nominated to serve as Officers and other Members of 

 the Council wei-e annomiced. 



On the motion of the President, it was agreed unanimously to convey to 

 Mr. Eoland Trimen, F.E..S., the recipient of the Darwin Medal of the Eoyal 

 Society, the hearty congratulations of the Entomological Society of London. 



Dr. Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter, M.A., M.B., Uganda Medical Service, 

 Uganda Protectorate ; Mr. William B. Gurney, Assistant, Government Entomo- 

 logical Department of Agricultui-e, Sydney, N.S.W. ; and Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw, 

 Hollycomb, Liphook, Sussex ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The Hon. N. C. Rothschild brought for exhibition some examples of a rare 

 Noctuid moth, Oxytripia orbiculosa, Esp., collected by himself and Miss Sarolta 

 von Wertheimstein, at Puszta Peszer, in Hungary, dui-ing the first week of 

 October of this year, where examples of both sexes were secured, and made 

 some remarks on the curious habits of the moth, illustrated by photogi-aphs of 

 one of the sandy spots in the wood it frequents ; he also exhibited examples of 

 two species of flea, Ctenocephalus canis (dog-flea) and C. felis (cat-flea), and 

 stated that, though still frequently considered to be identical, they were really 

 quite distinct species. Under the microscope it was seen that whereas the 

 head of the dog-flea was rounded, that of the cat-flea was long and flat. 

 Dr. G, Nicholson, the example of Lathrobium iongipcnne, Fairm., taken by him 

 at Eoydon, in May, 1910, of whicli a specimen was exhibited by Commander 

 J. J. Walker at the last meeting of the Society. Professor T. Hudson Beare, 

 specimens of three species of beetles, all taken abundantly liy him at Nethy 

 Bridge, Inverness-shire, during July and August, 1910, viz. : (a) Erirrhinus 



