F.E.S. ; Curator, W. West ; Hon. Secretary, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S. ; Council, 

 C. A. Brings, F.E.S., J. H. Carpenter, John T. Carrington, F. W. Froliawk, F.E.S., 

 W. Mansbridge, F.E.S., W. A. Pearce, and H. A. Sauzd. The President then read 

 his Address. Mr. Tutt, on behalf of Mr. W. E. Butler, of Reading, exhibited 

 specimens of Argynnis Latoiia, L., said to have been captured in Devonshire by Mr. 

 B. Stafford Chope,and showed, from documentary evidence and other circumstances, 

 the great improbability of their being of British origin. 



At the close of the Meeting the President announced the munificent donation, 

 by Mr. C. A. Briggs, of the Herbarium which had been formed by the late Mr. W. 

 H. Tugwell. — Ht. J. Turner, Ron. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : February 5th, 1896. — Prof. Raphael 

 Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., Mr. 

 Roland Trimen, F.R.S., and Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford, Vice-Presidents for the 

 Session 1896—1897. 



The Rev. John Hocking, M.A., of Copdook Rectory, Ipswich, and Mr. J. C. 

 Moberley, M.A., of 9, Radstock Place, Southampton, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited pupse and portions of pupae of a silk moth, Antherisa 

 Mylitta, selected from some scores of specimens, which he had opened to see if they 

 showed stages of development agreeing with the examples given by Dr. Spiiler. 

 The results appeared to confirm Dr. Spider's researches ; some specimens showed 

 the tracheae, the median vein having two branches, very rarely emitting a third 

 branch in the direction of the radial. Other specimens had faint indications of 

 the veins and of the discoidal spot of the imago. Mi-. Merrifield, Mr. Harapson, 

 and Dr. Sharp took part in the discussion which ensued. Mr. E. E. Green remarked 

 that in the Trans. Ent. Soc, 1881, page 601, there was a short paper by the late 

 Prof. J. O. Westwood, describing a curious little insect from Ceylon under the 

 name of Dyscritina longixeioxa. Prof. Westwood believed his typical specimens to 

 be immature. Mr. Green exhibited what he supposed to be a later stage of the 

 same species. He said his example differed in some particulars from Westwood's 

 description and figure — notably in the proportions of the caudal appendages. Prof. 

 Westwood pointed out the afiinities of Dyscritina to the Forficulidce. These were 

 very apparent in the specimen under consideration. Putting aside the nature of 

 the caudal appendages the insect was in all particulars an earwig. The present 

 specimen was taken in the Punduloya district of Ceylon, at an elevation of about 

 4,000 feet. Mr. McLachlan, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Gahan, Mr. Blandford, and xVTr. 

 Uampson made some remarks on the subject. Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a 

 Goliath beetle, from the Upper Congo, which he believed to be the male of Ooliathus 

 russus, Kolbe, described from a unique female example in the Berlin Museum. Mr. 

 Blandford called attention to the case of the eye of a boy affected with 

 inflammation caused by the hairs of the larva of La.nocampa rubi. He said that 

 the urticating property of the hairs appeared to be mechanical : there was no 

 evidence of any poison glands. Mr. Lawford said he had had some difficulty in 

 discovering hairs in the lid, and he thought that the symptoms in the 



