gg [March, 



condolence was passed to his relatives. The l^ev. F. D. Morice also gave a 

 short account of tlie life of the late Mr. F. W. Sladen. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society :— Dr. E. E. McConnell, 

 Arua, Uganda; Dr. E. T. Fernald, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology, Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., U.S.A. ; and Dr. Alfred Moore, 

 31 Alfred Place, South Kensington. 



The President, Mr. Sheldon, and. Mr. Adliin all brought for exhibition 

 some remarkable series of Cidaria truncaia, C. citrata, and C. concinnafa. 

 Rev. F. D. Morice made a short communication on the life-history of a Jiritish 

 sawfly, Pristiphora pallijycs Lep. Mr. II. .1. Turner exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. Thomas Greer, a series of aberrations of British Lepidoptera from Co. 

 Tyrone. Mr. Ashby, some butterflies from Piedmont, Italy, and said that he 

 considered the Val di San Bartelemi, close to Nus, to be one of the best 

 collecting-grounds in Northern Italy. INIr. J. H. Durrant, on behalf of 

 Dr. Gahan, some living examples of the Cassidid beetle Aspulomorpha 

 sa7ictae-crucis from India; tha causes of the brilliant metallic coloration of 

 this beetle were discussed by Mr. Arrow and by Mr. Willougbby Ellis, and 

 Dr. Neave commented on the habits of similar African species. 



A paper by Mr. Martin E. Mosely was read on " Two new British Species 

 of Ilt/druj/tilu.''' — S. A.. Nkave, Hon. Secretary. 



SOME INDIAN COLEOPTERA (7). 

 BY G. C. CHA^IPION, r.Z.S. 

 {Confi lined from p. 34.) 



Aiitlieropliagus liimalaicus, n. sp. 



Shining, pale testaceous, the elytra usually a little darker, the eyes, tips 

 of the mandibles, and ba^es of the tibiae iufuscate or black, the antennae 

 (joint 1 excepted) more or less iufuscate; tlie upper surface very closely, finely 

 punctate, and clothed with short, fine, iidpressed yellowish pubescence, the 

 elytra with rows of punctures showing through from the inner surface. 

 Antennae very stout in cT , more slender and shorter in $ . Eyes small, 

 depressed. Prothorax transverse, subquadrate, a little widened at the base, 

 the basal depressions shallow. 



Length 4- 5 mm. ( d 2 •) 



Hah. W. Bhatkot, Kumacm, alt. 6000 ft. {H. G. C: d 2 : 

 V.1920), Chaubattia, Almora District, alt. 6-7000 ft. {8. B. Archer, 

 in Mus. Brit. : ? ). 



One c? , six $ $ , the S labelled as having been found on Paeonia 

 ernodi. A form of the European A. nigricornis F., with smaller, less 

 convex eyes, the specimens before me being intermediate in this respect 

 between A. nigricornis and A. microphtlialmus Grouv. (1919), the type 

 of which ( d' ) was captured at Mangpliu near Darjeeling. This latter 

 is a much broader insect than A. liimalaicus. 



