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Meeting at Ockham and Wislpy on May 2C)th was read by Mr. Kaye, the leader. 

 The Reports of the Field Meetings at Clandon on June 24th, and at Box Hill 

 on July 22ud, were read by Mr. Hy. J. Tiu-ner, the leader. — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



Entomoi.ogical Society of London: Wednesday, November ]sf., 1916. — 

 Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Hassan Efflatoun, Choubrah Avenue, Cairo, Egypt, and S. E. Agri. 

 cultural College, Wye ; Frank Hannyngton, Mercara, Coorg, S. India ; Harry 

 Haden May, Blackfriars House, Plymouth ; and AkioNohiraTcliijoji, Otagigun, 

 Kyoto, Japan, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Prof. Poulton gave an account of observations by Mr. C. O. Farquharson on 

 the Hesperid butterfly, Rhopalocamjita forestan Cram. He also exhibited a 

 sjjecimen of a Tabanid fly (probably Pangonia aldii) which when on the wing 

 had attacked Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter. Also examples of Mallota cimbiciformis 

 bred by Mr. H. Britten of the Hope Department. The Rev. F. D. Morice, 

 specimens of Pteronus sertifer ^ cJand? $, and read notes. Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 specimens of Sympherobius striatellus Klap., and of S. elegans Steph., for com- 

 parison. Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey:— (1) A gynandromorph 

 of Papilio lycophron, ra^e phanias R. and J., from North Peru. (2) Polygrapha 

 cyanea G. and S., the unique and hitherto undescribed female, apparently a 

 mimic of Opsiphanes. (3) A hybrid gynandromorph of Amorpha popidi x 

 Smeriyithus ocellatus. 



The following papers were read : — " Further notes relating to the Origins of 

 the Jurinean Genera of Hymenoptera," by the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., P.E.S., 

 and J. Hartley Durrant, F.E.S. " On a collection of Heliconine forms from 

 French Guiana," by J. J. Joicey, F.E.S. , and W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. The latter 

 paper was illustrated by a large collection of varied forms of Heliconius 

 melpomene, which was exhibited. — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



ON BHYNCHITES OPHTHALMICUS STEPHENS, WITH A TABLE OF 

 THE BRITISH SPECIES OF THAT GENUS. 



BY JAMES EDWARDS, F.E.S. 



Messrs. Fowler and Donisthorpe (Coleopt. Brit. Isl., VI, p. 182, 

 1913) adopt the dictum of Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Ma-;-., XL, p. 79, 

 1904) that the true B. ophthalmicus Steph. = B. olivaceus Gyll. But 

 Stephens' opinion was, and that of extra-British writers is, that 

 ophthalmicus Steph. = sericeus Herbst. I would venture to suggest 

 that, in the absence of proof to the contrary, Stephens' ophthalmicus 

 must be taken to be an insect possessing the characters which he 



