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En rosroLOOiCAii Society of London : Wednesday, February 6th, 1919. — 

 In the absence of the President, the Secretary, at his request, announced that 

 he had appointed Dr. C. J. Galian, Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, and the Rev. F. D. 

 Morice as Vice-Presidents for the ensuing season. The Rev. F. D. Morice, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., then took the Chair. 



Dr. Reginald Heber Prowde Hick, Eaglescliffe, co. Durham, and Messrs. J. 

 H. Jurriaanse, Schickade, 75, Rotterdam, and F. G. Whittle, 7 Marine Avenue, 

 Soutliend-on-Sea, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Tlie following paper was read : — " The synonymy and types of certain 

 genera of Ilymenoptera, especially of those discussed by the Rev. F. D. Morice 

 and Mr. J. Hartley Durrant in connection witli the long-forgotten ' Erlangen 

 List ' of Panzer and Jurine," by J. Chester Bradley, M.Sc, Ph.D., Assistant 

 Professor of Systematic Entomology in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ; 

 communicated by Prof. Gordon Hewitt, F.E.S. 



Wednesday, March 6th, 1919.— Comm. J. J. AValkeb, M.A., R.N., F.L.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. H. Corbett, 3 Thorne Road, Doncaster, and Major W. J. Paton, 

 I. M.S., Stoke St. Gregory, nr. Taunton, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President announced the death of Mr. F. DuCme Godman, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., formerly President of the Society, and read an appreciation written by 

 Lord Walsiugham. A vote of condolence with Dame Alice Godman was 

 unanimously passed, the Fellows present rising in their pl'aces. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited, on behalf of Mr. C. E. Stott, an aberration of 

 Brcnthis selene, taken near Deimy Bog, New Forest, on June 28th, 1918, it 

 liaving tlie black markings of the fore wings blurred and extended, and the 

 hind wings entirely black with the exception of the marginal spots and a few 

 scales in the central area. Dr. E. A. Cockayne, specimens of the bee Bonihus 

 lappo7iicus, and its mimic Oedimagona tarandi, a parasite of the Reindeer, from 

 Yakanski on the Murman coast of Russian Lapland, near the entrance to the 

 White Sea. Mr. J. H. Durrant, a specimen of Picris rapae ab. iiovanyliae, a 

 very scarce American form with yeHow coloration. Prof. Poulton read inte- 

 resting notes on Natal butterflies, copied from letters written to bim by Mr. C. 

 N, Barker of the Durban Museum. He also read further notes on Hesperidae 

 of the genus Surangesa resting in holes in the Nuba Mountains, Province of 

 the Sudan, written January 26th, 1919, at Talodi, by Lt.-Col. R. S. Wilson ; 

 and also a note on the eccentric movements of the hind wings in Cyaniris 

 argiolus L., received from Dr. R. C. L. Perkins. The Rev. F. D. Morice called 

 attention to a paper by Mr. J. J. Ward, F.E.S. , in the Christmas number of 

 tlie " Strand Magazine," which appeared to explain the object of the so-called 

 *' palisades" (erect columns of piled-up froth -bubbles) with which the young 

 larva of the Sawfiy Lygaeonematus compressicornis F, {=vaUatorv. Vollenh.) 

 surrounds itself while feeding on a leaf of poplar. 



The following papers were read: — "Notes on the Ancestry of the Diptera, 

 Hemiptera, and other Insects related to the Hymenoptera," by G. Chester 

 Crampton, Ph.D., communicated by G. T. Betlume-Baker, F.L.S., F.E.S, 

 " Notes on Bonelli's ' Tableau synoptique,' " by H. E. Andrewes, F.E.S. " On a 

 Migration of Yellow Butterflies {Catopeilia statira) in Trinidad," by C. B. 

 Williams, M.A., F.E.S. 



