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Goswell Road, E.G. 1 ; K. P. U. U. Nair, M.A.. Training College, Trivandrum ; 

 Frank Balfour-Browne, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., Oaklands, Fenstanton, St. 

 Ives, Hiint.s ; E. Melville Uu Porte. M.Sc, Pli.l)., Macdonald CoJlege, Quebec, 

 Canada; Oliver C. Cassels, D.F.C., N.]).A., West Hill, Ottery St. Mary, 

 Devon; (). C. OUenbach, Survey of India Dept., Delira Dun, India; J. B. 

 Corporaal, Pieter Bothstraat, 39 The Hague, Holland ; Douglas Cator, 

 13 Westminster Mansions, Gt. Smith Street, S.W. 1 ; Marco Pallis, Tatoi, 

 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool; and Samuel Walker, .53 Micklegate Hill, York. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a series of F.pinephele ianira from Suther- 

 landshire showing an approach to var. hispulla ; also Pieris nctpi showing an 

 approach to var, bryoniae. Mr. Betliune-Baker, a series of Zygaena Jili- 

 pendulue var. chrysanthenii, from Birmingham. Mr. F. W. Edwards, a 

 remarkable new insect from Kashmir, which, though probably representing 

 a new family of Diptera, shows curious resemblances to the Mayflies. Mr. L. 

 Newman, gynandromorphous example of Amphidasys betularta, var. double- 

 dayaria, and an Ichneumonid parasite from Sphinx liyustri. Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, F.li.S., Oedemaaena tarandi, the warble-fly of the reindeer, captured 

 with its model, Bumbus lapjwnicus mim'tnanicus ; he also read a note re- 

 garding observations made by JMr. Arthur Loveridge on the oviposition of 

 the beetle Mylabris uculata Tiiunb., var. tricolor Gerst. Canon St. Aubyn 

 Rogers, buttertiies from East Africa, including remarkable females of Papilio 

 dardanus ; examples of Papilio rex and Mimacraea marshalli doherlyi. Dr. W. 

 A. Lamborn, an Oriental Danaine butterfly, observed brushing the tcent-glands 

 on its hind wings. Mr. G. Talbot (on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey), new and 

 rare butterflies from New Guinea and Peru. Mr. H. Donisthorpe, a rare 

 British Aphid, SUnnaphis quercus L. Mr. A. T. J. Janse concluded his 

 account on methods of collecting while travelling in South Africa, illustrated 

 with lantern-slides. 



Wednesday, November \Qth, 1921. — The Prefid^nt in the Chair. 



The Secretary announced that the Council had nominated the following 

 Officers and Council for 1922: — President, The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, 

 M. A., F.R.S., etc. ; Treasurer, W. G. Sheldon, F.Z.S. ; Secretaries, S. A. Neave, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S., and H. Ellringham, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. ; Librarian, H. J. 

 Turner ; Council, Robert Adkin ; H. E. Andrewes ; Ernest C. Bedwell ; James 

 E. Collin, F.Z.S. ; J. Davidson, D.Sc, F.L.S. ; J. J. Joicey, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 F.R.G.S., etc. ; Frederick Laing ; William G. F. Nelson ; Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., etc.; Norman Denbigh Riley; H. Rowland- 

 Brown, M.A. ; J. Waterston, D.Sc, B.D. 



After some discussion, it was decided to hold an informal meeting on 

 January 4th, 1922, at 5.30-7.30 p.m. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a new race of the Ithomiine butterfly Dircenna 

 lenea from Trinidad, with a series of the typical forms from the Potaro district 

 of British Guiana. Mr. A. W. Bacot, enlarged microphotographs (jf the eggs 

 of bed-bugs. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Lepidoptera from Sutherlandshire. Dr. A. 

 E. Cockayne, an example of Pyrameis atalanta with larval head. Professor E. 

 B. Poulton, F.R.S., discussed the question of fluorescence as evidence fur the 

 evolution of the pigments of mimetic females from those of their non-mimetic 

 males, and said that, with the Jielp of Dr. Cockayne, he had been able to 



