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the curious copulatory pouch ; mostly magiiified. Mr. Frohawlf, the Anosia 

 plexippus captured last year iu Ireland. Reports on the Season showed tliat 

 insects were up to date and generally common, 



June ISth, 1917.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited the nest of a wasp, Icaria sp., from Demarara, 

 Dr. Chapman, a pair of living Chri/sopJianus dispar v. riitilus, naturalised iu 

 Britain for three generations, and also specimens of the egg-laying of the saw- 

 flies Cladius viniinalis in the petioles of the poplar, and of Zo^V(;/;-((s ^)«/a' in a 

 groove in needles of Pinus syhestris. Mr. Main, living beetles from Sicily. 

 Mr. West (Greenwich), the rare Heteropteron, Calocoris alpestris, from 

 Cumberland, and a living larva of Stnuropus faf/i from the New Forest. 

 Mr. Bunnett, larval cases and living imagines of Coleophora palUateUa from 

 Crohamhurst, and cases with an imago of the Psychid known as Fiimea casta. 

 Mr. Turner, varied series of Coenonympha iphis, C. arcania, and C. saiyvkm, 

 including several of the named forms, and summarised the current opinion as 

 to the specific value of the three. Bemarks were made by several members on 

 the season. Members bad seen Colias edusa, Vanessa to, Pyrameis afaJanta, 

 larvae of Celastrina argiohis, and second broods of Pieris rapae and P. napi. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Ed. of Proceedings. 



Entomological, Society of London: Wednesday, May 2?id 1917. — 

 Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Arthur Dicksee, 24 Lyford Boad, Wandsworth Common, S.W. 18. 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited specimens of Euchroea coelestis, a rare and 

 beautiful Cetoniid from Madagascar. Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited two cases of 

 Caliyo species from the collection of Mr, J. J. Joicey as well as from his own 

 collection, together with a number of microscopical mountings of the male 

 genital organs. The Bev. F. D. Morice, a set of six photos showing the ovi- 

 positor and apex of the $ abdomen in three species of subspecies of the Siricid 

 genus Paururus, viz. juvencus F., noctilio F., and cyancus F. The President 

 remarked that the Xestohium which he had exhibited at the previous meeting 

 was still living, and that he had discovered that it was a 5 . It had tapped 

 when touched on the head with a bit of paper, and when this was continued 

 had extruded its ovipositor. 



The following papers were read : — " New and Little-known lleterocera 

 from Madagascar," by Sir George Kenrick, F.E.S. ; "A Preliminary Catalogue 

 of British Cecidomyidae, with special reference to the Northern Gall-flies/' by 

 li. S. Bagnall, F.E.S. , and J. H. Harrison, M.Sc. 



Wednesday, June Gth, 1917. — The President in the Chair. 



Dr. H. G. Breijer, Ph.D., Director of the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, 

 Transvaal, S. Africa, and Dr. Alfred E. Cameron, M.A., D.Sc, The Entomo- 

 logical Laboratory, Agassiz, British Columbia, were elected Fellows of the 

 Societv. 



