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Wt^stcliff-Dii-Sea. Es.^ex ; Artlinr Fi-;mt;is ITeniiniTitr, Oxford and Cainbrid'^'e 

 C!iib, Pall Mall, S.W. 1, and Cambridge Lodge, llorley, Surrey; Williuins 

 Iluah, J. P., Tresaition, Cloverdale, J^ritish C< liimbia, Canada; ]\hirdnch 

 Campbell McLeod, The Fairfields, Cobham, Surrey, and McLeod it Co.., 

 Calcutta, India; Dr. W. MansHeld-Aders, Zanzibar ; S. Gordon Smith, E>tyii, 

 Boughton, Chester; and James Davis Ward, Liuiehurst, Grange-over-Sauds, 

 Lancashire, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following papers were read:— "A contribution to the Clas'-iHcation of 

 the Coleopterous Family Eadumychiddp," by Gilbert J. Arrow, F. MS. ; " New 

 Moths collected by Mons. A. Avinoff in W. Turkestan and Kat^hmir during 

 his Journeys in 1999-1912,' by vSir George Hampson, Bart., communicated by 

 J. Hartley Durrant, F.E.S. ; "On the Histology of tbe Scent-m-gans in the 

 Genus Hydi uptila Dalm.," by H. Eltringhani, M.A., D.Sc, etc. ; "Contributions- 

 to the Life History of Lucaena eiiphemus Hb.,"' by T. A. Chapman, ]\LD., 

 F.IJ.S-, etc. ; " Notes ou Li/caenn a/con F., as reared in 1918 and 1919," by the 

 same; "C>iCoon softening in some Agrotids,'^ by the same; ^' Fseudacraea 

 eiirytus Imbleyi, its Furuis and its Models on the Islands of Lake Victoria, and 

 the bearing ot the Facts on tlie E.xplanatiou of Mimicry by Natural Selection," 

 by G. D. H. Carpenter, D.M., B.Cli. Dr. Eltringham, Dr; Chapman, and 

 Dr. Carpenter gave illustrations of their papers by means of the epidiascope, 

 and Dr. Chapman exhibited a nest of Myrniica laevinodis containing four living- 

 larvae of L. eiip/tenms, and also one larva in spirit at the stage in which it 

 enters the ants' nests. A very interesting photograph of the late II. W. Bates, 

 which Mr. Donisthorpe was presenting to the Society, was al?o shown, 



Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Meyacoehim heckeri, a Capsid new 

 to i5ritain, which he had firat captured at Weybridge, August 27th, 1918; it 

 was always found over r\es,\s ai Fonidca »v</W, but he had so far been quite 

 unable to trace t])e cause of the connection between the insects. Prof. Poulton. 

 read (1) A note contained in a letter from the liev. K. S. Aubyn Rogers on 

 Herse convolculi L. attacked by small birds in British East Africa; (2) Further 

 notes by W. A. Lam born ou the habits of the ^y BenyuUa; (-3) The Hy 

 BeJKjuha depressa Walk, attacking a wingless Termite ; Prof. Poulton gave an 

 account of this observation, recorded by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter in a letter from 

 Mombasa dated May 13th, 1919. Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter exhibited a speci- 

 men of Mantis pia Sew. from Uganda, and read a very interesting note on it* 

 method of ridding itself of a Nematode with which it was infested. Dr. E. A. 

 Cockayne, on behalf of Mr. Bobert Y. Horn of Glasgow, exhibited (1) a speci- 

 men of Anaitis plagiata showing extreme melanism, the thorax, abdomen,, 

 basal area and ceiitral fascia of fore wings being almost black, and the rest of 

 the fore wings and the hind wings dark grey : (2) a specimen of Acronycta 

 vunyunthidis with black marginal area to fore wings ; both were from Dum- 

 bartonshire, 1919 ; two slightly less melanic Anaitis playiata have been takeu 

 at the same place. Mr. H. M. Edelsten exhibited bred specimens of 6'c.sw 

 fonnicaefonnis from the Lea Valley ; also an osier stem in which the larva had 

 fed, and photographs to show the emergence hole of the iuuigo. Lt. E. J3. Ashby, 

 a number of species of Hymenoptera, taken in 1919 in the Turin and Yicenza 

 districts of Northern Italy and identitied by Prof. Zavaleii, Head of the 

 Natural History Museum at Turin. 



