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bility of tlie tvro was pvnl.jiljlv llio smno. l^ifr. TT. Donisfchorpp p-nro an acnount 

 (*f the latest vie\\-9 on tlie srrljfaitiilies of ants, and illnstratwl Iiis remarks with 

 inmierons diaorams. In connection therewith, Mr. W. C. Crawley exhibited 

 representatives of each of the two groups separated by Wlieeler, nnd remarked 

 that the Inrg-e Termite ants could be he;ird by their kind. Lt.-Col. H. D. Peile, 

 I. M.S., br.Hijiht for exhibition a collection of butterflies made by him iu 

 Mesopotamia ; ikese included a new species of Lycnena, with the " Blues " 

 •with whicli it was taken in compaiw, a new subspecies {dyala) of Zegris 

 citpheme differing from var.. menestho Mgn., which occurs at Fathah on tlie 

 riglit bank of tlie Tigris, in the absence of the yellow sutlu'sion in the oround- 

 colour of the hind wing,, and from ab. tschudiba U.S. in having mom white hv 

 ])ropnrtion to the green;- and seasonal hrmsoi Me/ itaea fn'via perseaKoll. from 

 Aarions localities in Mesopotamia and the Nortli-West Frontier of India.. 

 Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited an example of Papilio' machum rtifopimctata- 

 Wheeler from Les Voirons, Ilaut-Savoie ; and a series of Pnrasemia plcmta- 

 <imis from the Col de Faucille above Cex,. Ain, in the French Jura, showing a 

 great diversity of variation } one speeiraen he thought might be referred to' 

 viafronnlis, but the President did not support this view, the melanism not 

 being sufficiently pronounced. Mr. Talbot,, on belmlf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, 

 exhibited Teratological aberrations of Lepidoptera s,uA & case containing several 

 new forms of Afi'ican Rhopalocera. 



The follbwing papers were tlien read: "On some Chriisomelldae (Colco- 

 pfem) in the British Museum," by Mr. A. M.Lea; "Types oi Heteromerw 

 described by F. Wallcer now iu the British Museum,"' by Mr. K. G. Blair. 



Wednesday, Ajtri/ 5tJi, 1921. — The President in the Chair. 



The following Avere elected Fellows: Miss J. Riddell, Los Ang-eles, Cali- 

 fornia, U.S.A. ; Mr. C. Dover, The Indian Museum,. Calcutta, India; Mr. D. J.. 

 Atkinson, Broadoak House, Newnham, Gloucestershire ; Mr. L. B. Hopper,. 

 Manor Hoii.se, Penvhyn, Cornwall ; Mr. F. H. Lancum. Feruside, Shepherd's 

 Lane, Dartford ; Mr. F. D. Coote, II Pendle Road, Streatham, S.W. ; Mr. H. 

 E. Box, 151 Stamford Hill, N..16 ; Mr. H. M. Simms, B.Sc, The Farlands,. 

 Stourbridge ; Mr. H. H. Wallis, M.A., 145 Wilmer lload, Ileaton Road, 

 Bradford; Mr. F. Rhodes, 113 Park Row, Ileaton Road, Bradford; and the- 

 Rev. G. Watkinson, M.A., Woodtield, Ilipperholme, nr. Halifax. 



Mr. E. E. Green, remarking on the early appearance of Lepidoptera this- 

 .season, stated that an example of Xai-dJiorhoe Jiuctuatn had come to li^ht on. 

 March 12th ; while in regard to the hibernation of Pyravieis atalcmta in 

 Britain— a still debated question— he had observed a specimen at sallow on. 

 March 17th, at Camberley. Mr. C. B. A\'llliams exhibited a case of insects- 

 from tropical America, including a Monediiia, a species of wa.sp which buzzed 

 only when digging and spreading mud ; and examples of insects destructive to- 

 sugar-cane. Lt.-Col. H. I). Peile, a number of interesting Lepidoptera {Rhopa- 

 locera) taken on the N.W. Frontier of India and iu N.W. Persia, including a 

 gynandromorphous specimen of Colias glicia and a series oi Z.ephyrxis guercus- 

 meso2)otamica of large size and brilliant purple colouring. Mr. J. II. Durrant, 

 a series oi Blasfuhasis Uynea Wlsm., including var. adjudcUa Wlsm., captured 

 in Lancashire, a member of the Blastohasidae, a family not hitherto taken in- 



