70 [March, 



The President read his annual Address, and after giving an account of the 

 present status of the Society, dealt at considerable length with some phases of 

 his special study of the ova of Lepidoptera, particularly wild-laid ova. 



The usual votes of thanks were accorded, and the new President, Mr. B. H. 

 Smith, took the Chair. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a small specimen of Leucania pallens taken at sugar 

 at Newark, with three well developed antennae, of which one was much thicker 

 than visual, and towards the tip was bifid. - Hi. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, December 3rd, 1913. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Walter Ormiston, of Kalupahani, Haldumille, Ceylon, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Dr. Gr. B. Longstaff presented to the Society, on behalf of a number of 

 subscribers, a copy of Hiibner's " Exotische Schmetterlinge," original edition. 

 Mr. G. T. Porritt, exhibited two curious specimens of Abraxas grossulariata. 

 In the first the fore-wings were asymmetrical in marking, and the left lower 

 wing was wanting. In the other the right lower wing was also wanting, but in 

 its case there was a rudiment of it visible. Miss Diana R. "Wilson (who was 

 present as a visitor) butterflies caught in Brazil this year, during the last week 

 of January and the first week of February. Prof. Poulton, eight examples of 

 Episcaphula interrupta, Lac, found in one clay cell, and eleven examples found 

 in another, by Mr. C. O. Farquharson, B.Sc, at Moor Plantation, near Ibadan, 

 S. Nigeria. He also read notes received from Mr. Lamborn on the Driver Ants 

 (Dorylus) of Southern Nigeria, and exhibited the material referred to. Dr. K. 

 Jordan, a series of species of the two groups of Papilios called by Haase Cosmo- 

 desmus and Pharmacophagus respectively. Mr. Champion, a specimen of Thorictus 

 pauciseta, Wasm., attached to the scape of the left antenna of a worker of an 

 ant, Myrmecocystus viaticus, F. Mr, W. C. Crawley (1) three dealated $ 9 of 

 L. niger, L., taken in Isle of Wight, July, 1911. These, after rearing $ $ s, 

 fought until only one survived ; (2) a 9 of Aphasnogaster subterranea, Latr., 

 taken August, 1912, at Yvorne, with Prof. Forel, after marriage-flight, brought 

 up two $ $ by September, 1913; (3) six 9 9 of L. flavus, Fabr., taken after 

 marriage-flight at Seaton, July 14th, 1912. They built a cell together and 

 brought up $ $ by June 23rd, 1913. Mr. O. E. Janson, specimens of Laglaisia 

 caloptera, Bigot, one of the curious forms of Diptera with stalked eyes, from 

 Dutch New Guinea. Capt. E. B. Purefoy, two more specimens of Gonepteryx 

 cleopatra, with gynandromorphous colouring. Mr. E. B. Ashby, a number of 

 Nearctic butterflies. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a very large series of specimens of Heli- 

 conius anderida ranging into a number of forms which tended to become fairly 

 definite subspecies in different geographical regions. Dr. H. Eltringham gave 

 a preliminary account of the scent-apparatus in Amauris egialea, comparing 

 same with that of A. niavius, illustrated by drawings, and microphotographs of 

 sections of the brush. The following paper was read: " New Species of South 



