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showing the different life-stages and the working of the larva in the 

 food plant. 



j^ C I E T I E S . 



The Entomological Society of London. — Xoveinber &t/i, 1912. 

 — Dr. Emile Frey-Gessner, La Roseraie, Geneve, Svi'ifczerland, 

 was elected to the Honorary Fellowship rendered vacant by the 

 death of Prof. Ganglbauer. Messrs. G. C. Bodkin, Govt. En- 

 tomologist, George Town, British Guiana ; C. Bowring, Acting 

 Commissioner of Customs, Wenchow, China; F.L. Davis, J. P., M.R.C.S. 

 (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Belize, British Honduras; Dr. Dewitz, 

 I)evant-les-Ponts,Metz, Lorraine; H. M.Hallett, 13, Earl Road, Penarth, 

 Glamorgan ; A. D. Imms, D.Sc, B.A., F.L.S., Forest Zoologist to the 

 Govt, of India, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, U.P., India ; N. 

 Jardine, 2, Castle Street, Ashford, Kent ; H. King, Govt. Entomologist, 

 Gordon College, Khartoum, Sudan; Jal P. Mullan, M.A., Asst. Professor 

 of Biology, St. Xavier's College, Chunam Kiln Road, Grant Road, 

 Bombay, India; E. J. Paterson, Fairholme, Crowborough; W. Rait- 

 Smith, 86, Gladstone Street, Abertillery, Monmouthshire; and 

 Dr. A. Seitz, 59, Bisraarckstrasse, Darmstadt, Germany, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. Brknthis pales, var. isis, ak. napaea, 

 AND ab. suffusa. • — -The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited on behalf of 

 the Rev. F. E. Lov/e a series of Brenthis pales taken in the Heuthal, 

 Bernina Pass, on June 21th, 27th and 28th, 1912. Some were of the 

 var. uis and some of the 5 s of the ab. napaea, but the most remark- 

 able were very pronounced examples of the ab. snfiisa, Wh., both J 

 and ? , some of the latter being almost completely black. Blue 

 Females of Polyommatus icarus. — Mr. Wheeler also exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. R. M. Prideaux a series of unusually blue ? s of 

 Pobjoiniuatus icarus, taken in the spring of this year in the Westerham 

 district. Melitaea aurinia. — Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a long and 

 constant series of M. aurinia, bred from two batches of ova laid by 

 North Cornwall $s; and on behalf of Mr. G. B. Oliver, a picked 

 and varied series, bred by the latter also from North Cornwall 

 larvas. A myrmegophilous African Lycaenid. — Dr. W. A. Lamborn 

 exhibited two larvfe and two bred imagines with corresponding pupa- 

 cases, of the Lycaenid butterfly Ruliphijra mirifica,Yio\\. The larvte 

 were found in a nast of the ant (hcophylla sniaraf/dina var. lonijinoda. 

 The Spherical Structures on Cocoons of the Tineid Moth Epicephala 

 CHALYBACMA, Meyr. — Pfof. Poulton read a letter, describing the pro- 

 duction of these structures, written May 27th, 1912, from Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, by Mr. E. E. Green, and exhibited thecocoons referred to therein. 

 The West African Agaristid moth Messaga monteironis , Butler, a 

 MIMIC OF the Hesperid Pyrruochalcia iphis, Drury. — Mr. J. A, de 

 Gaye, who was present as a visitor, showed examples of the above- 

 named model and mimic captuied by him on the same day at the same 

 plant. A MYRMECoPHiLous Coleopteron. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited 

 a specimen of Thorictus foreli var. bonnairei, Wasm., a small beetle, 

 fastened on to the antenna of an ant, Mijrnieencj/stKs bicolor, F. 

 PiERiNE Butterflies and their Scent-Scales. — Dr. F. A. Dixey made 

 some remarks on the Pierine genus Pinacopteryjc, illustrating them by 

 exhibiting male and female specimens of most of the species, side by side 



