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forms of encedon in the localit}'. One brood was all hjcia, another all 

 encedon, while the third was as nearly as possible half and half (23 to 

 24). The proof ry breeding that Acraea aurivillii, Staud., is the 

 Female of A. alciope, Hew. — Prof. Poulton exhibited a series of eight 

 A. alcinpe and five A. aniivillii bred in the present year by Dr. G. D. 

 H. Carpenter from thirteen small larvae found on a single leaf of the 

 food-plant on Damba Island, in the Victoria Nyanza to the east of 

 Entebbe. Depredations by Minute Ants. — The Rev. G. Wheeler 

 exhibited some living ^ s of a small ant, identified by Mr. Donisthorpe 

 as Mo)iriiiioriinii jiliarctonis, imported from Madeira, and now settled in 

 England, together with several butterflies whose bodies and heads had 

 been devoured by them while in the setting box. He observed that 

 these insects had all been killed in the cyanide bottle, whilst others in 

 the same setting box which had been injected with oxalic acid were 

 left untouched. Insects seeking High Ground. — The President said 

 that about the beginning of July this year, he had noticed while col- 

 lecting near El Guerrah, the junction for Constantine, Biskra and Alger, 

 both sexes of the ^^ellow and black Lencospis (jiyas, and of another red 

 and black Leacospis, flying in great numbers, round a cairn of stones 

 on the top of a hill, and suggested that the common instinct to seek 

 high places might provide a meeting-ground for the sexes. — October 18t/i. 

 — The following gentlemen were elected Fellov/s of the Society : — 

 Mr. Sidney Howard Cotton, Mayfair ; Captain J. J. Jacobs, R.E., 

 Gibraltar; Mr. Kunui Khunan, M.A., Bangalore, South India ; Dr. 

 Ivan Clarkson Maclean, M.D., B.Sc, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Knightsbridge, 

 S.W. ; and Mr. Frank Taylor, Sydney, New South Wales. Papilio 

 (Tachyris) melania, Fabr. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited a pair of each 

 of the following species — Tachi/n's melania, Fabr., 7'. cele^tina and 

 Catoji/iaiia eija, Boisd., and remarked that Fabricius's type is still 

 preserved in the Banksian Cabinet, and that Mr. G. A. Waterhouse 

 has now sent home specimens which are undoubtedly of the species 

 described by Fabricius and represented by Donovan. It is not a 

 Catiiplioija allied to eija or paidina, but a Tachyris belonging to the 

 group which contains T. celestina and T. nero. Larva of Colias 

 nastek. var. werdandi. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a living larva 

 of Colias nastes var, werdandi, which he had bred from an ovum 

 deposited by a $ captured at Abisko, in Swedish Lapland ; the 

 natural foodplant is Astrayalus alpiniis, L., but in captivity the larva 

 fed upon white clover. Southern Neuroptera. — Mr. W. J. Lucas 

 exhibited two specimens of Neinoptera bipennis, Illig. {Insitanica, Leach), 

 taken by Mr. A. H. Jones, one in the cork woods at Almorima, Spain, 

 on May 5th, lOH, and the other at Linea, Gibraltar, on the 28th. 

 Also a specimen of Lertlia harbara, Klug, taken by Mr. H. Powell at 

 Aflou, Oran, Algeria, on June 30th, 1911. Sirex noctilio. — Mr. 

 W. J. Lucas also exhibited a large specimen of Sirex noctilio, taken by 

 himself at Leith Hill, Surrey, walking on the road, on September 8th, 

 1911. A Coleopteron new to Britain,— Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe 

 exhibited a species of Coleoptera new to Britain, Lesteva Ittctiiosa, 

 Fauvel, which he had taken in moss in a waterfall on the high ground 

 in the Isle of Eig^, near Mull, on September 17th, 1911. Bred 

 Erastria VENUSTULA. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten showed some bred specimens 

 of Erastria reniistiila ; thelarvfe had fed readily on flowers of I'otentUla 

 tormentiilu, and on garden forms of Potcntilla, strawberry, and bramble 



