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Charles Biisliby, 11 Park Grove, Bromley, Kent; Arthur Morel Massee, "Park 

 Place," The Common, Seveuoaks, Kent ; Linnaeus Greeuiug-, " Fairlight," 

 Grappenhall, Cheshire ; John Wilson Mowre, 151 Middleton Hall Kd., Kings 

 Norton, Birmingham : John Edmund Eastwood, Wade Court, Hava:it, Hants. ; 

 Dr. Francis Arthur, M.H.C.S., E.ll.C.P., 395 Bethnal Green Itoad, E. 2 ; and 

 Dr. H. Silvester Evans, M.R.C.S., L.li.C.R, Lautoka, Fiji. 



Mr. W. H. Tams exhibited a selection of insects, chieHy Lepidoptera, 

 taken on the Mi)unt Everest E.xpedition. Mr. 0. E. Janson, a new species of 

 Euchroea, and a female of the rare Saturniid moth Aryema miltrei, from 

 Madagascar. Dr. C. J. Gahan, an example of the Indian Phasmid Caraushu^ 

 morosus, in which liomoeotic regeneration had taken place, an amputated 

 antenna having been replaced by a tarsus. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 who illustrated his remarks with lantern-slides, read some notes by Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm on the occurrence of Syntoinnspis drujKcrum in liaAvthorn seeds in birds' 

 droppings, and some notes by Dr. B. C. L. Perkins on the procryptic resting 

 attitude of Pohjgonia c-albuin. He also exhibited some Chalcids, bred by Mr. 

 J. Collins, from beetles in dog-biscuits and plum-branches. Dr. S. A. Neave 

 read a letter from Mr. W. J. Harding recording the capture of PolygoJiia 

 c-album at Ilolcombe in Devonshii-e, and some discussion took place as to the 

 distribution and recent spread of this butterfly in the South of England. 



Wednesday, A^jril 5th, 1922. — The Rt. Hon. Loud Rothschild, M.A., 

 F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society: — Messrs. William 

 George Clutten, 136 Coal Clough Lane, Burnley ; Edmund James Pearce, The 

 Lodge, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; George Evelyn Hutchinson, 

 Aysthorpe, Newton Rd., Cambridge ; Charles Herbert Lankester, Cartago, 

 Costa Rica; Arthur D. R. Bacchus, 29 Abbotsford Rd.,Redland, liristol ; and 

 Captain Douglas S. Wilkinson, Kennington Vicarage, Ashford, Kent. 



Ijord Rothschild exhibited a group of mimetic Lepidojyiei-a and Hytneno- 

 jitera from South America. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, on behalf of Mr. T. Greer, 

 series of Epinephile jurtimi and Pieris napi, from Co. Tyrone. Mr. A. W. 

 Pickard-Cambridge, Zeller's types of a number of moths, mainly Crambids, 

 from Egypt and Palestine. Mr. W. F, H. Rosenberg, an example of Colaenis 

 telesiphe tithraustes, from Ecuador, in which the band of the hind wing is 

 white as in the typical form. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, series of Heodes 

 phlaeas, and a specimen of Zyyaetia transalpina ab. ehngata from Florence. 

 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, on behalf of Mr. B. P. Uvarov, some remarkable 

 mimetic long-horned grasshoppers with their Cicindelid models. Dr. K. 

 Jordan, F.R.S., a pair of the Agaristid moth, Aegocera mahdi, the male 

 of which has a stridulatory organ; also a series of Liphyra brassolis. 

 Dr. S. A. Neave gave an account of the fauna of Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland, and 

 illustrated his remarks with lantern-slides, and with an exhibition of some 

 typical insects from that locality.— S. A. Neave, IIoji. Secretary. 



