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Mr. Stanley A. Blonkarn, of Bockenhain, was elected a Mcinbor. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a series of Xylina conformis, all liut one from 

 Glamorg-anshire, and remarked on its occurrence and distribiition. Mr. 

 Newman called attention to the devastation caused by some hitherto unknown 

 disease among bees in the South of England. It was most contagions, and 

 scarcely a hive remained over a large area. Mr. Brockstone, a bred series of 

 Apocheima (Nyssia) Mspidaria, and gave particiilars as to breeding. He also 

 contributed notes on the occiirrence of numerous dwarf examples of Hyhernia 

 defoliaria at Richmond, the pairing of H. marginaria ^ and H, defoliaria 9 , 

 delayed wing development of Chesias rufata, pupation of Triphaena pronuha 

 after hibernation without feeding ; the finding of the ova of Spilosoma men- 

 thastri on the shell of a living snail, and the occurrence of batches of ova of 

 Hadena pisi on a small plum tree. Mr. Newman said that A. Mspidaria readily 

 pvipated in two inches of soil, if the bottom of the cage was a concrete floor. 

 Mr. R. Adkin, two varieties of Arctia caja from Yorkshire larvae ; one with the 

 whole of the fore-wings dvill smoky -bro\vn, with very much diminished white 

 markings, the hind-wings black with only a few didl yellow patches, some 

 ill-defined ; the other with a concentration of the lighter colour of the fore- 

 wing towards the base, and of the darker colour towards the apex, while the 

 hind-wings were bright orange-red, with miich reduced black markings. He 

 also showed living Apocheivia zonaria, with eggs in sit A, under bark of Clematis. 



Thursday, April 13th. — The President in the Chair. 



Miss Alderson, F.E.S., of Worksop, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited about 100 species of conspicuous Coleoptera, taken 

 by him in Switzerland during July, 1910. Mr Tiu-ner, living specimens of 

 Agapanthia asphoddi, sent to him by Dr. Chapman from Hyeres. Mr. Adkin, 

 an undetermined Agrotid from the Isle of Lewis, a Sciaphila from Unst, 

 probably referable to S. colquhoiinana, and a Pyrameis c.ardui, in which the row 

 of spots on the hind-wings were united into an irregular blotch. Mr. Newman, 

 on behalf of Mr. Oliver, a bred series of Aphantopus hyperanthus, which had 

 emerged in Janiiary and February. The larvae had fed all the winter on Poa 

 annua until pupation. Mr. Hemming, series of Brenthis selene from Warwick 

 and Sussex; the former were a much larger race in both sexes — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, April 5th, 1911. — The 

 Rev. F. D. MoRiCE, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : Messrs. 

 H. W. Davey, Inspector of the Department of Agriculture, Geelong, Victoria, 

 Australia ; H. Boileau, 90 rue de la Cote St. Thibavilt, Bois de Colombes, Seine, 

 France ; Rufus Mallinson, Oakland, Windermere. 



The President announced the death of Mr. P. C. T. Snellen, of Rotterdam, 



