OA (January, 



Wednesday, November \dth, 1919. — Tlie President in the Cliair, 



Mr. William Falconer, Wilberlee, Slaithwaite, liiiddersfield ; Sir Norman 

 Laiuont, 4 Queen Street, W., and Palmisle, Trinidad, 13. W.I. ; and Mr. Cyril 

 Wintbrop Mackwofth-Praed, Ualtou Hill, Albur^', Surrey, were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



The following list of Fellows was read, as the nominees of the Council for 

 the next session : — FreHdent, Comm. James J. Walker, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. ; 

 Treasurer, W .G. Sheldon, F.Z.S. ; Secretaries, tlie Rev. George Wheeler, 

 M.A., F.Z.S,, and S. A. Neave, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. ; Librarian, G. C. 

 Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S.; Other Members of Onincil, H. E. Andrewes; 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; K. G. Blair, B.Sc. ; Surgeon-Oomm. M. 

 Cameron, M.B., R.N. ; J. Hartley Durrant ; H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc. ; 



A. D. Imms, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. ; G. A. K. Marshall, D.Sc, F.Z.S.; the 

 Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.Z.S.; II. E. Page; the Rt. Honble. Lord 

 Rothschild, M.A., F.R.S., etc. ; Capt. the Rev. J. B. Waterston, B.D., B.Sc 



Amongst the donations to the Library was a MS. Entomological Diary 

 of the well-known entomologist .1. Curtis, which after his deatli had passed to 

 the late J. O. Westwood, by whose representatives it had been given to the 

 Radclifle Librarian, Dr. W. Hatchett Jackson, who now presented it to 

 the Society, being anxious that during his lifetime it should find a suitable 

 and permanent resting-place. 



Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a very small specimen of Hylutrupes bajulus L. 

 only 8'o mm. long, taken by Mr. R. S. Mitford, C.B., F.E.S. ; and a very large 

 one, 24 mm. long, taken by himself (both from near Weybridge) ; also Eupteryx 

 melinae Curt., a frog-hopper breeding on garden-sage in his garden at Putney ; 

 and a species of Aleurodes, from honeysuckle in a cold conservatory, also at 

 Putney. Mr. Durrant, a specimen of Aiiry/is tineana lib., an addition to the 

 British List ^Lep.-Tin.), taken casually in the daytime by Mr. E. G. Whittle 

 at Camghouran (Perthshire), 3.vi.l919. Mr. H. E. Andrewes, some tropical 

 Carabidae to show the development of spines at the apex of the elytra. Lt. E. 



B. Ashby, the following butterflies taken recently in North Italy : Thais poly- 

 xe7ia ab. meta, Euranessa antiopa, Chrysophanus dispar var. rutilas, Satyrus 

 stutilinus, and Enodia dryas. Mr. J. J. Lister, a collection of P. aeyon var. 

 masseyi Tutt, made in N. Lancashire and Westmorland in July 1918 and 

 1919, with series of the heath form from the New Forest, of var. cretacea from 

 the North Downs, and of the forms from Delamere Forest, Cheshire and 

 Great Orme's Head, Carnarvonshire, for comparison ; and read notes on these 

 forms. Mr. W. Kaye, series from various localities of the Sphingid Eumorp/m 

 elpenor to illustrate the probable effect of heat in enlarging or even producing 

 the small white discoidal spot. Prof. Poulton said that on September 20th 

 last, at Oxford, he saw a large wasp with a large Syrphid fly, Cataboniba 

 2)yrastri L., carried in the mandibles ; the wasp was a queen, almost certainly 

 of Vespa yermanica F. or mlyaris L., probably the former, which is the com- 

 moner at Oxford. He also drew tlie attention of the Fellows to observations 

 made on Vespa orientalis L. in Palestine by Mr. C. 11. Ilamm, late R.A.F. — 

 Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



