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the upper surface of the wings protectively resembled. Mr. Barrett, Mr. McLachlan, ; 

 Mr. Jacobj, Mr. Champion, Kev. Canon Fowler and Mr. Frohawk continued the 



discussion. j 



Mr. Gross informed the Meeting that, in pursuance of a Resolution of the Coun- ] 



cil passed in March last, he and Mr. Elwes liad represented the Society at the recent ; 



G-overnment enquiry as to the safety and suitability of the proposed Rifle Range in \ 



the New Forest, held at Lyndhurst by the Hon. T. W. H. Pelham, on the 20th, ; 



21st, 22nd and 23rd inst., and that they had given evidence at such enquiry, and , 



addressed a large meeting of War Office officials, Verderers and Commoners. — J 



H. Gross and W. W. Fowler, Hon. Sees. i 



Maj/ llth, 1892. — Frederick DuCanb Godman, Esq., F.R.S., President, in j 



the Chair. ; 



Dr. Edward A. Heath, M.D., F.L.S., of 114, Ebury Street, Pimlico, S.W., and i 

 Mr. Samuel Hoyle, of Audley House, Sale, Cheshire, Avere elected Fellows of (he 



Society. ' 



The President announced the death, on the 4tli of May, of Dr. C. A. Dohrii, ; 

 of Stettin, one of the ten Honorary Fellows of the Society. Mr. Stainton expressed 

 regret at the death of Dr. Dohrn, whom he had known for a great number of years, 

 and commented upon his work and personal qualities. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited drawings of the eggs of a species of Remiptera, in illus- j 



tration of a paper read by him before the Society ; and also a specimen of a mosquito j 



{Megarhina hamorrhoidalis) from the Amazon district, with the body, legs and palpi | 



furnished with scales as in Micro- Lepidoptera. j 



The Rev. Canon Fowler, on behalf of Mrs. Yenables, of Lincoln, exhibited \ 



cocoons of a species of Bomhyx from Chota Nagpur, India ; also the larva cases of ] 



a species of Psychidce {Cholia Crameri) from Poona, India; and a curious case, i 



apparently of another species of Psychidce, from the Island of Likoma, Lake Nyassa. j 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk, on behalf of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, exhibited a 

 specimen of Fseudacrcea miraculosa mimicking Danais Chrysippus ; also a specimen 

 of the mimic of the latter, Diadema Misippus, and read notes on the subject. 



Mr. C. Gr. Barrett exhibited, and commented on, a long series of specimens of i 



Melitcea Aurinia {Artemis) from Hampshire, Pembrokeshire, Cumberland, and other ; 



parts of the United Kingdom ; also a long and varied series of Coremia fluctuata. \ 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. W. Borrer, Jun., of Hurstpierpoint, a photo- | 

 gi'aph of a portion of a nest of Vespa vulgaris which had been built with the object 



of concealing the entrance thereto and protecting the whole nest from observation. \ 



He also read notes on the subject, which had been communicated to him by Mr. \ 



Borrer. j 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild communicated a paper, entitled, " Notes on a j 



Collection oi Lepidoptera made by Mr. Wm. Doherty in Southern Celebes during i 



August and September, 1891." He also sent for examination the types of the new j 



species described therein. i 



Dr. Sharp read a paper, entitled, " On the Eggs of an Hemipterous Insect of ; 



the Family EeduviidcB." Mr. Poulton and Mr. Hampson made some remarks on ! 



the subject.— H. Goss and W. W. Fowlee, Hon. Sees. \ 



