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T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. " A remarkable new Genus and Species of 

 Odonata of the Legion Podagrion, Sel., from N. Queensland," by Kenneth J. 

 Morton, F.E.S. " Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S.E. Brazil," by E. Dukinfield- 

 Jones, F.Z.S., F.E.S. "The Myrmecophilous Aphides of Britain," by Prof. 

 F. V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S. 



Wednesday, March 4th, 1914. — The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. Win. J. von Monte Pendlebnry, Broadlands, Shrewsbury, and Keble 

 College, Oxford ; Bobert Veitch, 7, Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh ; and Francis 

 Cardew Woodforde, B.A., Market Drayton, Salop, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Mr. H. Donisthorpe and Mr. W. C. Crawley exhibited a number of poly- 

 morphic forms in ants, illustrated by a chart, and read notes. Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, a £ and 9 imago of Agriades thersites, alive, bred from the egg ; 

 also two last-stage larvae. Mr. H. Main, a gynandromorphic specimen of 

 Eriogaster lanestris, right side 9 , left side J , bred last year at Eastbourne by 

 Mr. E. P. Sharp. Mr. O. E. Janson, a specimen which he believed to be the 

 female of Goliathus wisei, Heath, hitherto unknown, also specimens of G. kirki, 

 Gray, in which the white markings were very perfectly preserved. Mr. Champion, 

 on behalf of Mr. E. W. Morse, of Leeds, the second British specimen of the 

 genus Eudectus, probably a variety of E. whitei, Sharp, from Ingleborough, 

 Yorks., and a pair of CEdemera virescens, L., from Symonds Yat, Hereford. 

 Dr. F. A. Dixey, at the desire of Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw, F.E.S., a cocoon of 

 Lyonetia clerckella, L., spun up on a cherry leaf. Mr. Hawkshaw suggested that 

 the fine silken web attached to the leaf on each side of the supporting strands 

 and guy lines by means of which the cocoon is slung up like a hammock, 

 served as a protection against ants. Mr. E. Ernest Green, a Coccid with double 

 anterior limb, and read notes. Mr. L. W. Newman, a fine 9 Lasiocampa ilici- 

 folia taken on the wing at Cannock Chase, by Mr. G. B. Oliver, on May 25th, 

 1913. Mr. Newman stated that the larva? in captivity took readily to aspen. 

 Mr. A. W. Mera, two specimens of Cidaria suffumata, of an unusual form, from 

 East Devon, received from Eev. J. W. Metcalfe, who takes this form from damp 

 woods, and finds it not entirely confined to one wood. Prof. Poulton stated that 

 he had just received from Mr. E. E. Piatt, of Durban, the male and female 

 parents— both of the wahlbergi form — caught in coitu, with their large family 

 of about 200 mima and wahlbergi in about equal numbers. These results were 

 quite unexpected. 



The following paper was read: "A Eevision of the Central American 

 Chauliognathinse (Fam. Telephoridse) , based on the Genital Armature of the 

 Males," by G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. -Geo. Whbelhe, Hon. Sec. 



