1914]. 15 9 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, April 1st, 1914. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mrs. Maria Ernestina Walsh, Soekaboemi, Java ; Messrs. J. P. Ramakrishna 

 Aiyra, B.A., F.Z.S., The Agricultural College, Coimbatore, S. India ; Eugene 

 Bendefitter, 11, Rue St. Jaques, Le Mans, France ; Rev. Prebendary Edward 

 Grose Hodge, The Vicarage, Paddington ; A. J. T. Janse, 1st Street, Gezina, 

 Pretoria, S. Africa ; Charles Nicholson, 35, The Avenue, Hale End, Chingford, 

 N.E. ; Frederic de la Mare Norris, B.Sc, The Agricultural Department, Kuala 

 Lumpur, Malay States, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited some specimens of the genus Curetis from the 

 Tring Museum, to illustrate a point of mimicry. Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of 

 Pierinse from Western China, with drawings of their scent-scales, and remarked 

 on them. Mr. O. E. Janson, both sexes of a new Papilio belonging to the 

 gambrisius group and apparently most nearly allied to P. ormenus, Guer., also 

 the rare Papilio gabrielis, Roths., both recently received from the Admiralty 

 Islands. Mr. Donisthorpe, a small nest of the ant Cremastogaster sclienki, 

 Forel, from Madagascar, fastened on the stem of a tree ; also a small beetle, 

 Stmiclaviger sihoras, Wasmann, which came out of this nest, and is a guest of 

 C. schenki. Mr. C. B. Williams, specimens of the genvis Acerentulus of the 

 order Protura. Mr. E. B. Ashby, a 9 of Dryas pandora, with darkly suffused 

 underside hind-wing, very near the ab. Ulacina, Obth., from La Granja ; also 

 an aberration of Melitsea athalia, from Hinterzarten, belonging to the eos 

 group of aberrations of this species. 



The following papers were read : " Descriptions of South American Micro- 

 Lepidoptera," by E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., F.E.S. " A Revision of the Tipulid 

 Genus Styringomyia," by F. W. Edwards, F. E S. — Geo. Wheeled 

 Secretary. 



SOME RECORDS OF SCOTTISH SIPHONAPTERA. 

 BY JAMES WATERSTON, B.D., B.Sc. 

 {Continued from page 91.) 



Cebatophylltjs sciurorum, SchrJc. 

 $, Sciurus vulgaris, Pitlochry, N. B. 16.iv.1898. Presented by Mr. Peace 

 (Brit. Mus.). 



$ $ , 9 , Sciurus vulgaris, Innerwick, East Lothain. P. H. Grimshaw. 

 1899(F). (Rothsch. Coll.). 



Mustela erminea, Lethen, Nairn. A. Brodie. 25.xi.1899. (Rothsch. Coll.). 

 2 J $ , 12 9 9 , Sciurus vulgaris, Fortrose, Mr. Oldfield Thomas. (Rothsch. 

 Coll.). 



Also in Rothsch. Coll. (L. G. Esson) — 



11 $ $ , 3 9 9, Mustela erminea, Durris, Aberdeenshire. 6.ii.ll. 



c? , Sciurus vulgaris, Cults, Aberdeenshire. 3.i.l2. 



9 , Mustela erminea, Nigg, Kincardineshire. 13.L12. 



$ and ? . Sciurus vulgaris, Cupar, Fife. Nov., 1912. J. Skinner. 



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