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Surrey, on May 16th. Mr. Preston exhibited butterflies from Macedonia. 

 Mr. Buiinett, ova, larvae, and imagines of Mclw^oina pojmli (Coleopt.) from 

 Oxshott, where it was very common just now. Various reports were made of 

 the occurrence of Colias croceus (edusa) on the N. Downs, etc. 



June '22nd. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Stanihipd exliibited Petroynatha ffi(/as und Archon centaurus (Coleopt.) 

 from the Gold Coast. Mr. Withycombe, the Neuroptera : 1. Osmylus chnjsops, 

 alive with its larva; 2. Sialis lutaria and a living; larva; 3. Ithone ftisca from 

 Australia and a preserved larva ; 4. Psychopsis leonina from Africa and a 

 preserved larva from Australia; 5. Stenosmylus exeisus from New Zealand, 

 and gave notes on their life-histories. Mr. Buckhurst, Hesperia malvae, ab. 

 taras, from Effingham. Mr. Enefer, a shoot of sycamore and a root of ash 

 deformed by the attacks of gall-flies. Mr. Goodman, aberrations of : 1. Par- 

 nassius apollo, much approaching P. delius, from St. Martin Vesubie ; 

 2. P. delius with sparser markings than usual ; 3. a Parnassius with characters 

 intermediate between delius and apollo suggestive of a natural hj'brid. 

 Mr. Syms, a larva of Rtiralis betulae and a larva of Onthophayus vacca 

 (Coleopt.) in its cell for pupation. — Hy. J. Turner, ifo7t. Editor of Proceedinys. 



Entomological Socikty of London: Wednesday, May 3rd, 1922.— 

 The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death of Mr. A. W. Bacot, of York Cottages, 

 York Hill, Loughton, Essex, and of Mr. Gilbert Storey, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt, and a vote of condolence was passed to their relatives. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr. C. L. CoUenette, 

 c/o Messrg, Barker & Co., Singapore ; and Mr. Michael G. L. Perkins, 4 Dean's 

 Yard, Westminster Abbey, S.W. 1, and Trinity College, Cambridge. 



The Treasurer called attention to additions to the collection of portraits 

 in the meeting-room, and especially to a beautiful pencil drawing from a 

 photograph of the late Dr. Longstaff. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a series of Pararye roxelana from Hercules- 

 bad, and P. cliniene from Sarepta. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., illustrated 

 some of his remarks with lantern-slides, and read some notes on the life- 

 history of Catochrysops phasma, and on the life-history of a Bethylid of the 

 genus Cephalonomia Westw., observed at Oxford by Mr. A. H. Hamm ; he 

 also read some interestin|f notes on the habits of the Diiver-ant Dorylus niyri- 

 cans Illig., in Tanganyika Territory. Mr. C. L. Withycombe exhibited larvae 

 of an adult of Osmylus chrysops, with enlarged figures, also some larvae of the 

 mosquito Taetiiorhynchns richiardi, taken in Epping Forest. 



The following papers were read : " The Mallophaga of the Oxford Univer- 

 sity Expedition to Spitsbergen," by Dr. J. Waterston, B.D., D.Sc. ; " The 

 Dasytinaeoi South Africa," by Mr. G. C. Champion, F.Z.S., A.L.S. ; "A Mono- 

 graph of the Genus Catochrysops," by Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S. ; and 

 " The Species of the Genus Larinopoda," by Dr, H. Eltriugham, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.Z.S. 



