99 [Jiinuary, 



Bi3ho,)'s Stortf()rd ; Arthur W. Jobbins Poineroy, Govt. Entoiuolo-fist in 

 Nigeria, Ibadan, S. Nij^eria, and Kneeswortli Tloiise, 78 Eliu Park Roid, 

 S. Kensington; Cupt. John G. St. A iibyn, c/o Sir Charles McGregor & Co., 

 39 Paulton Street, Ilaymarket, W. 1 ; and i^t.-Col. R. S. Wilson, Governor 

 of Western Desert Province, Mersa Matrub, Egypt, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



Mr. J. II. Diirrant exhibited specimens of AUonoinyma diana lib., a I'im'id 

 new to tlie British Fuiina, which had previously been eironeuusly described 

 both as a Pyralid and a I'ortrix. Mr. E. E. Green, a cluster of eggs of 

 Eunomos aiduinnaria and drew attention to their superficial resemblance to 

 the eggs of certain Ilemiptera; lie also showed an enlarged drawing of one 

 of the eggs. Mr. Edelsten, specimens of DianthoRcia luteaijo and U. harri'ttii 

 from various localities, and contributed notes on the species. Mr. Donisthorpe, 

 S!)ejimens of Cocciuelia disfincta bred from the eggs (which, together with the 

 living eggs and tlie female parent of one of tlie specimens, he had exhibited at 

 the last meeting) and their pupal skins, and read some notes on them. lie 

 also exhibited an abnormal specimen of tlie inuigo. Mr. F. W. Edwards, 

 (1) Urellia au<jur Frauenfeld, an Egyptian Trypetid Hy with wing-nnirkings 

 curiously resembling a small Hy or Hea, tlie resemblance is most probably 

 purely accidental, but is at the same time quite striking ; [2) tliiee interesting 

 new ih'itish lJi[)tera : (aj OrUioixidomi/in athionen-iis MacGregor, a mosquito 

 recently discovered breeding in the wati-r in hollow beech trees in Epping 

 Fttrest, (b) (Jclilerutatus curiiei Coquillett, a North American mosquito found 

 by Ur. II. Scott on Wareham Heath, Dor•^et, (cj Vnjpteria limuoidnlvides 

 Bergroih, a remarkable Tipulid described from Fiiiland in 1913, found in 

 August 1919, by Capt. J. W.aerston^ at Honawe, Argyllshire. The Uev. F. 

 U. Morice exhibited witli the epidiascope some life-size photographs of the 

 larvae of various I'erya spp. clustering logetiier on Eticali/ptus leaves, which 

 had been kindly sent to him by Mr. Hacker of the liri.sbaiie Museum in 

 Queensland. lie also Called aiteiition to a recent remarkable discovery 

 published by Messrs. H. E. Burke and S. A. Liohwer in Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 Washington, vol. xix (1917), viz. that the previously unknown larva of 

 Ori/ssus differs both in structure and liabits from those of either the »SVy7c7(Zf(6' 

 or the Tctithrtdinidae, and is parasitic on certain wood-boring Coleopterous 

 larvae i^Biqiretstidae and probably also Vcravibycldue). 



The following- papers wt-re read : — " The Male Abdominal Segments and 

 Aedoeagus of lluUrucerus capillariconiis," by F. Muir; " On the Mechanism of 

 the Male Genital Tube in Coleoplera," by the same; "A New Family uf 

 Lepidoptera, the Ant//e/id<ie,'' by A. Jefferis Turner, M.L». ; "A New 

 Ilydr.'ptila,' by Martin E. iMosley; "Scent Organs in the genus Ilydroptila 

 (Trichoptera )," by the same. The last paper was illustrated by many photo- 

 graphs shown in the epidiascope; Dr. Eltringham congratulated the author on 

 his important discoveries, and Mr. F. W. Edwards co npared the scent-organs 

 found at the back of the neck in certain Diptera [Pi^ycliudidac). 



Wcdneaday, November bth, 1919.— The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. James Meikle Brown, B.Sc, F.L.S., F.C.S., 170 Carterknowle 

 llo.id, Millhouses, ShelHeld ; Alfred Francis John Gedye, 4 Ruuwell Terrace, 



