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Wednesday, March l^th, 1919.— The Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.Z.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Lieut. L. A. Box, 80 Northampton Road, Crovdon ; Prof. J. Chester 

 Bradley, M.Sc, Assistant Professor of Systematic Entomology, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, New York ; Messrs. E. J. Burnett, M.A., 9 London 

 Road, Forest Hill, S.E. 23 ; Bernard Douglas Cumniiug, Royal Exchange 

 Assurance, Royal Exchange, E.G. ^ ; Capt Tiekner Edwardes, R.A.M.C., The 

 Red Cottage, Burpham, Arundel, Sussex ; Lt.-Col. William Henry Evans, 

 D.S.O., R.E., c/o Messrs. Cox & Co., 16 Charing Cross, W.C. 2 ; Mme. Fournier, 

 90 Boulvarde Malesherbes, Paris ; Messrs. H. C. Hayward, M.A., Repton, 

 Derby ; N. Marumo, Zoological Institute, Agricultural College, Imperial Uni- 

 versity, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan ; Louis Nell, Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 

 British Museum (Natural History), S.Kensington, S.W. 7; William George 

 Eraser Nelson, 6 Craven Hill, W. 2 ; John Peel, Whittlesey, Canibs ; 

 Capt. Leslie Rawdou Stausfield, R.G.A., c/o Array and Navy Club, Pall 

 Midi, S.W, 1 ; Major Watkin Temple, East Mersea, Essex ; and M. P. 

 Wytsman, Quatre Bras, Tervueren, Brussels, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society, 



Mr. H. Rowland. Brown communicated an extract from a letter addressed 

 to him by Mons. Ch. Oberthiir in reference to the death of the late Dr. Godman. 

 Mr. .7, H. Durrant exhibited a 5 of Arenijyhes sabella Hmsn. which he had 

 bred (July 23rd, 1917) from a larva found feeding in dates (May 3rd), pur- 

 chased in London. Dr. H. Eltringham, specimens of the pupa and imago of 

 Cryptophaga ruhescens, and read notes. The Rev. F. D. Morice, 2 S 6 and a 5 

 of Tenthredella Jlavicornis F. {Te.nthredo Jlava, auct., nee L.) taken with many 

 other specimens of the same at Lichfield in 1917. The only other British 

 specimens are those recorded by J. F. Stephens, said to be from Plymouth. 

 —Geo. Wheelee, Hon. Secretary. 



ODONATA FEOM MESOPOTAMIA. 



BY KENKETH J. MORTON, F.E.S. 



(Plate V.) 



The following account of Odonata from Mesopotamia (the lower 

 part of the Euphrates and Tigris to the Persian Gulf being included in 

 the term) is based primarily on a rather large collection of over 

 300 specimens sent home hy Captain W. Edgar Evans, R.A.M.C, and 

 handed to me for examination by his father, my friend Mr. William. 

 Evans. This collection has been supplemented by some material kindly 

 sent to me by Captain P. A. Buxton, R.A.M.C, and by a smaller lot of 

 specimens taken by Lieutenant P. J. Barraud, E..N., submitted by the 

 favour of Mr. Plerbert Campion. 



The first mentioned collection was formed mainly round about 

 Amara on the Tigris, where Captain Evans was stationed from the end 

 of October 1917 to the beginning of November 1918. It was only in. 



