Mr. Betlmne-Biilier. Mr. A. W. Rynier Roberts, M.A., Rotliamsted Agricul- 

 tural Experiiuent Station, Ilarpeuden, and The Common, Windermere, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. A. 11. Jones exhibited, on behalf of 

 Captain E. F. Studd, R.F.A., a Fellow of the Society at present serving with 

 the British Expeditionary Force at Salonica, various Lepidoptera taken by him 

 in 1916, in the neighbourhood of Salonica. Commander Walker said that in 

 1878 he had taken almost all the species exhibited in the neighbourhood of 

 Port Baklar near the Boulair Lines. The President and Mr. W. G. Sheldon 

 commented on the abundance of butterflies in Macedonia, the latter observing 

 also that North Macedonia and Albania were among the least known of Euro- 

 pean localities for Lepidoptera. Mr. G. Talbot exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. J. 

 Joicey, a series of A(/rias clandia Schulz showing its distribution and local 

 forms. Dr. E. A. Cockayne exhibited a series of Pararc/e e(jeria, bred Nov. and 

 Dec. 1916 and Jan. 1917 from ova laid by seAeral females taken in August, at 

 Limber, N. Lincolnshire, showing considerable variation. An aberration of 

 Pohfr/onia c-alhcm, the hind-wings being nearly black and the fore-wings with 

 costal .«pots united into a crescent. Two partial gynandromorphs- of Polyom~ 

 vKttus ictims. A female Affriacles con'don with one hind-wing marked with 

 blue like ab. setnist/iif/rapha, the other hind-wing having only a thin sprinkling 

 of blue scales over the same areas. Mr. Bacot read a further note dealing with 

 the qiiestion of the specific identity of Pediculus capitis and Pediculus hmnanus 

 {redinienti). 



SpKCiAii Meetiisg. 

 Tlie Special Meeting summoned to consider the new Bye-law proposed by 

 the Council was then held. 



The Secretary read the proposed Bye-law, which runs as follows ; — 

 *' Chap, xxiii. Prohihition in respect of Funds. — The Society .shall not 

 make any dividend, gift, division or bonus in money unto or between any of its 

 members." This Bye-law was needed to comply with the Act of Parliament 

 regulating the Registration of Scientific Societies so that they may be free 

 fiom local rates. On the motion of Mr. Bethune-Baker, seconded by 

 Mr, Stanley Edwards, it was passed without discussion. 



Wednesday, March 7th, 1917. — The President in the Chair. 



The death of Mr. A. 1*1 Gibbs, a member of the Council, and for five years 

 a most valued member of the Business Committee, was announced. Mr. E. A, 

 Butler exhibited two species of S. Indian llemiptera, Urentius echinus Dist. and 

 Apolhdotiis praefcctus Dist., received from Mr. T. V. Campbell, M.B., who 

 captured them at Chikkaballapura in the Mysore State; also several recently 

 described species of S. Indian Fiilijoridae, together with the S oi Euryhrachijs 

 tomentosa Fabr., which has only recently been recognized. Prof. Poulton read 

 some notes on mimicry in Oriental butterflies recently received from Col. Jermyn. 

 A male Ammophila sabulosa with two, instead of three, submarginal cells in each 

 fore-wing was exhibited to the meeting by Prof. Poulton. The President stated 

 that, at Prof. Poulton's request, he had recently examined the specimen from 

 the Burchell collection (No. 1330), which was shown that evening, and he 

 had no hesitation in saying that it was either a larva or female of the group 

 Phengodini. The females of this group are completely larviform. Both 

 larvae and females may be distinguished from Elaterid larvae by the fact that 



