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the oldest Honorary Fellow of the Society, and moved that an expression of 

 synijiathy be forwarded to his family ; this was seconded by Mr. Clahan and 

 carried imanimoiTsly. 



Mr. Eobert Adkin exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Lachlan Gibb, of Montreal, 

 Canada, three specimens (two males and one female) of a Pieris taken by 

 Mr. Gibb at Lost Eiver, Canada, in May, 1910, together with series of P. oleracea 

 and P. rapx from the same and other Canadian localities for comparison. Mr. 

 Gibb had mentioned that P. rapse was not an indigenovis species, but was said 

 to have been introdiiced into Canada some sixty years ago. He asked the 

 opinion of the Fellows iipon the three specimens, and suggested the possibility 

 of their being the result of natiiral hybridisation between P. oleracea and 

 P. rapse. Dr. Dixey was of opinion that the three specimens in question were 

 certainly not hybrids, and oven probably only a variety of P. oleracea ; he 

 pointed out that they differed less from the P. oleracea exhibited than did the 

 series of P. rapse from one another. Mr. Eowland-Brown observed that the 

 greater or less amount of grey suffusion was a common form of variation in the 

 geniTs. Dr. Longstaff agreed with Dr. Dixey, and remarked that P. rapse was 

 certainly not an indigenous species in Canada. Mr. W. J. Lucas showed three 

 specimens of EuhoreUia moesta, Gene, received on April 3rd from Hyeres, from 

 Dr. Chapman, with four others of the same species Both sexes were shown ; 

 but they look rather alike owing to there being little difference in the callipers. 

 He also exhibited a large ant, one of three specimens found this year at 

 Swanage in a bunch of bananas, supposed to have come from Jamaica. The 

 President observed that the specimen belonged to the genus Neoponera, and 

 was probably N. theresise, Forel, a Central American species. He added that 

 the genus was a curious one, combining the possession of a sting with the 

 single abdominal node characteristic of the stingless ants. Mr. F. Muir, two 

 specimens of the bat Miniopterus schreihersi, with 9 Ascodipteron embedded at 

 the base of the ear, from Amboyna. He said that the male and winged female 

 hatch out as normal imagines, the female, after finding her host, cuts her way 

 under the skin at the base of the ear, and then casts her legs and wings ; her 

 abdomen then develops to an enormous extent, and entirely envelopes her head 

 and thorax so that she appears as a " bottle-shaped " grub without legs or head, 

 this species he had named Ascodipteron speiserianum, after Dr. Paul Speiser. 

 Mr. L. W. Newman, on behalf of Mr. G. B. Oliver, of Wolverhampton, a series 

 of A. hyperanthus bred during January and February, 1911, from ova laid by a 

 Leamington ? in July, 1910. The larvae were fed in glass-topped metal boxes 

 in a warm room (the fire being oiit at night). The specimens, though rather 

 small, showed a great tendency to produce large spots both on the upper and 

 under-sides. A few captured examples from the same locality, selected for 

 prominent spotting, served to add emphasis to this tendency in the forced 

 specimens. Mr. H. J. Turner, living specimens of a Long-icorn beetle, Agapan- 

 thia asphodeli, sent by Dr. Chapman from Hy&res. Commander Walker 

 observed that he had found it in Malta (the only common longicorn there), 

 and also at Gibraltar in the early spring, and always on asphodel. 



