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that a number of Myrmecophiles run with them on their wanderings. 

 Ants from the United States and from Switzerland. — Mr. W. C. 

 Crawley exhibited a few ants collected during September, 1909, in 

 Pennsylvania and Cleveland, Ohio, and some species collected with 

 Dr. Forel in Switzerland, August, 1912. The Rev. F. D. Morice made 

 the following exhibits by means of the Epidiascope : — ^1. Lantern-slides 

 showing the pectinated antennae of the ^ in the Sawflies Loiihijnis pini, 

 L., and Monoctemts j imi peri, L., the latter new to Britain and not yet 

 recorded. 2. Lantern-slides showing paradoxical (secondary sexual) 

 characters in the legs of numerous S Aculeates (Bees, Wasps, and 

 Fossors). 3. Microphotos of the apex of the $ " terebra " in Cimbex 

 lutea, L., and Cimhex feviorata, L. 4. Entomological Congress groups 

 at Oxford and Tring. (Lantern-slides). During the course of this 

 exhibit. Dr. Chapman, at Mr. Morice's request, explained the manner 

 in which he had seen the wings of the ? Odynerus spinipes imprisoned 

 between the tridentate middle femora and excavated middle tibi^ of 

 the <J . A paper by Mr. H. Eltringham, M.A., F.L.S., "On the Scent- 

 apparatus of Amauris niavius, L.," was read by the author, the black-and- 

 white drawings by which it was illustrated being thrown on the screen. 

 — April %id, 1913. — Messrs. Andre Avinoff, Liteyny, 12, St. Peters- 

 burg; W. Bowater, Russell Road, Moseley, Birmingham ; J. S. Carter, 

 Warren Hill Cottage, Eastbourne ; James Davidson, M.Sc, Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, S.W. ; Arthur 

 H. Foster, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P'^ (Eng.), M.B.O.U., Sussex House, 

 Hitchin ; J. A. de Gaye, King's College, Lagos, South Nigeria; Oliver 

 Hawkshaw, 3, Hill Street, Mayfair, W., and Millard, Liphook ; and 

 Ernest Edward Piatt, 403, Essenwood Road, Durban, Natal, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. The Rev. G. Wheeler explained that 

 he had been mistaken in some of his observations on Anjynnis 

 mireMana on October 16th, 1912. The name auremina was given by 

 Fruhstorfer not by Oberthiir, and a few specimens were already known 

 before Mr. Powell discovered it in numbers at Lambessa as previously 

 stated. It had also been figured by Turati. Transfers of Butter- 

 flies. — Mr. E. Ernest Green exhibited cards showing the transferred 

 wing-scales of butterflies. A Northern Locality for Tetramorium 

 o^spiTUM. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a specimen of Tetramorium 

 caespituin, L., ^ , from a colony found by Mr. Evans on the Bass 

 Rock in Scotland, March 21st, 1913; the most northern records known 

 in Britain were Denbigh in Wales, and Cambridge and Suffolk in 

 England. Ants from Egypt.— Mr. W. C. Crawley exhibited numerous 

 species, sub-species, etc., which were taken at Helonan during 

 December and January last. Dr. Jordan gave a short account of the 

 Zoological Congress at Monaco, with special reference to Entomological 

 Nomenclature, and thanks were voted to the Society's Delegates for 

 their work at the Congress, and to Dr. Jordan in particular for his 

 interesting and satisfactory account of it. The following papers were 

 read : — " On the classification of British Crabmnidae (Hywenoptera)," 

 by R. C. L. Pei'kins, D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S. "Descriptions of new species 

 of the Syrphid genus Callicera (Diptera)," by the late G. II. Verrall, 

 F.E.S. Edited by J. E. Collin, F.E.S. " Neue Pyrgotinen aus dem 

 British Museum in London," Von Friedrich Hendel, Wien. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society.— Meeting held 

 at the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool. — March llth, 



