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Entomological Socikty of London: Wednesday, October 3rd, 1917. — 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Cliair. 



Dr. George Granville Buckley, M.D., F.S.A., Holly Bank, Manchester 

 Road, Stafford, was elected a Fellow of the Societ3\ 



The death of Dr. Emil Frey-Gessner, one of the Honorary Fellows, was 

 announced, and a vote of condolence with his daughter was passed. 



Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited the following Coleoptera: — (1) Miarus cum- 

 panulae L., taken on the Downs at Findon (Sussex), June 14th, 1917, in a 

 small species of buttercup : (2) Lycoperdina succincta L., taken at Barton 

 Mills (Suffolk), Sept. 9th, 1917, in fungus ; (3) Cassida fastuosa Schall., taken 

 at Goring Woods (Sussex), July 28th, 1917, on Inula dysenterica,* its first 

 record on Fleabaue ; and all the specimens were of a bright yellow and black 

 colour when alive, and not, as is usual, red and black. The Rev. F. D. Morico 

 exhibited with the Epidiascope a set of photographs (mostly taken from living 

 specimens feeding or resting on their usual food-plants) of various Sawfly 

 larvae. 



The following paper was read : — " Further notes on Recapitulatory 

 Attitudes in Lepidoptera," by T. A Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. 



Wednesday, October 17th, 1917. — Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. John Williams Hockin, Castle Street, Launceston, Cornwall; 

 Col. Turenne Jermyn, Highcliffe, Weston-super-Mare; Mr. Arthur Wallace 

 Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford ; and the Rev. Prebendary 

 A. P. Wickham, East Brent Vicarage, Ilighbridge, Somerset, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a number of small yellow cocoons which were 

 taken on a fence at Putney on Sept. 15th last, and which had emerged from 

 the body of a White Butterfly larva ; on October 8th Hymenopterous insects 

 began to emerge from the cocoons and were still doing so ; these belonged 

 to a hyper-parasite, parasitic on the Apanteles. Mr. Dicksee, a probable 

 new subspecies of Morpho rhetenor, now received for the first time from 

 Colombia. Dr. Chapman, an aberrant specimen of a wasp ( Vespa germanica) 

 and made observations upon it. Mr. O. E. Janson, a fine example of Tapmotus 

 sel/ufus Fab., taken by him on June 9th last near Horning, Norfolk ; only two 

 British specimens were previously known. He also exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. L. II. Bonaparte-Wyse, who was present as a visitor, a fine male specimen 

 of Notodotita bicoluria, Schiff., taken by him near Killarney on June 7th last. 

 Mr. Green, living larvae of a Dermestid beetle, Tiresias sei-ra, found under 

 dead bark of an oak-tree in the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. Mr. Green 

 also read an interesting note on the ovipositiou of the sawtiy Pteronus sertifer. 

 — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



* Bedel, Faune Bassin Seine, v, p. 331, gives /. dysenterica as its food-x)laiit. — ElS. 



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