20 [January, 



F.N.P.S., Clematis House, Somerset Road, Huddersfield ; Charles Albau William 

 Driffield, Stowting Rectory, Hythe, and Wye College, Kent ; W. Egmont Kirby, 

 M.D., Hilden, 46, Sutton Court Road, Chiswick, W. ; Louis Meaden, Melbourne, 

 Dyke Road, Preston, Brighton ; F. V. Bruce Miller, Livingston, N. Rhodesia ; 

 Alexander David Peacock, 137, Wingrove Gardens, and Armstrong College, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne ; H. Ananthaowamy Rao, Curator of the Govt. Museum, 

 Bangalore, India j Percival Nathan Whitley, New College, Oxford, and Brank- 

 wood, Halifax. 



The question of the change of title of the Society was opened for discussion, 

 but the preponderance of feeling appeared to be somewhat against any change. 



The President brought before the meeting the necessity of forming a fund 

 for the care of that portion of Wicken Fen left by the late Mr. G. H. Verrall to 

 the National Trust, and at his request Mr. Rowland-Brown expressed his readi- 

 ness to act as Treasurer for any subscriptions given by Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited a series of 17 Thais rumina, L. (including a l + 

 of the var. canteneri, Feld.), taken in March, 1913, at Ronda, in Andalusia, and 

 called attention to the characters suggestive of a distasteful butterfly. 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas, three species of Panorpa, viz., a female of the scarce Scorpion- 

 fly Panorpa cognata, Panorpa germanica, L., and Panorpa communis, L. 

 Mr. H. Lupton, a specimen of Thalpochares ostrina, taken in the middle of June, 

 1913, about four miles from Ilfracombe. Also two varieties of Dianthacia 

 luteago, taken in the middle of the same month on the coast of N. Devon. 

 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter read notes in connection with his exhibit of Epitoxa 

 albicincta. He also exhibited a case of miscellaneous insects and communicated 

 notes upon them. Mr. Donisthorpe, & $ , winged ? $ and a dealated $ and 



5 $ of the very rare ant Solenopsis fugax, Latr., taken at Blackgang, Isle of 

 Wight, on August 26th, 1913. Mr. E. E. Green, an aberrant example of Pyrameis 

 (Vanessa) indica, Herbst, from Ceylon. Comm. J. J. Walker, a ? specimen of 

 the gigantic Neuropteron, Corydalis orientalis, McLach., taken by a native 

 collector at Chuchow. Mr. L. W. Newman, the following Heterocera : — 

 (1) Calymnia (Cosmia) trapeiina ; a melanic ? Avorn specimen taken at sugar 

 in Bexley Woods. (2) Zonosoma (Ephyra) annulata and pe.ndularia ; a long and 

 very varied series of both species, showing extreme light, dark, and intermediate 

 forms, and one very pink Z. pcndularia. (3) A series of hybrid Z. pendularia 



? and annulata <?, specimens showing the markings of pendularia most 

 pronounced and the coloration of annulata prominent. 



The following papers were read : — " New or little-known Heterocera from 

 Madagascar/' by Sir G. H. Kenrick, Bart., F.E.S. "The Culicidseoi Australia," 

 by Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S. " Descriptions of New Species of Staphylinidas from 

 India," by Malcolm Cameron, M.B., R.N., F.E.S. " Pseudacrsea eurytus hobleyi, 

 Neave, and its models on Bugalla Island, Lake Victoria, with other members of 

 the same combination," by G. D. H. Carpenter, B.A., M.D., F.E.S. "Pseudacrsea 

 boisduvali, Doubl., and its models with special reference to Bugalla Island," by 

 the same. " The inheritance of small variations in the pattern of Papilio 

 dardanus, Brown," by the same. 



