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The following is n list of the Officers and Council for the ensuing year:— 

 President, A. Sicli, F.E.S. Vice-Presidents, 11. Adkin, F.E.S., and W. J. Kayo, 

 F.E.S. Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. Docls. Curator, 

 W. West (Greenwich). 17o». Corresponding Secretary, Stanley Edwards, F.L S., 

 F.Z.S. lion. "Reporting Secretary, Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Council, S. R. Ashby, 

 F.E.S, T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S.. F.E.S., FT. Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., A.L.Ray- 

 ward, F.E.S., E. Step, F.L.S., and A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. 



In taking the Chair, Mr. Alfred Sich proposed, and Mr. Step seconded, a vote 

 of thanks to Mr. Adkin, and Mr. Tutt at some length paid a warm tribute to the 

 appreciation of Mr. Adkin's services in the Society for so many years. 



Mr. B. Smith, of Upper Norwood, and Mr. E. R. Goffe, of Wandswortli 

 Common, were elected Members. 



Mr. Bay ward exhibited the hibernating larva of Pseudoterpna pruinata on 

 the stems of Genista anglica. Mr. Newman, a large and varied series of Amorpha 

 populi, mostly from captured larvae.— Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London.— Wednesday, February bth, 1908. 

 Mr. C. O. Wateriiouse, President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated Dr. Thomas Algernon 

 Chapman, M.D., FZ.^., Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R S., F.C.S., and Mr. Henry 

 Rowland-Brown, M.A., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 1908-9. 



The President announced that the Council had elected Mr. James William 

 Tutt to serve as a Member of the Council in the place of the late Mr. Arthur 

 John Chitty, deceased. 



Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt, M.Sc, of the University, Manchester, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



Dr. T, A. Chapman exhibited a collection of butterflies made last summer at 

 Gavarnie, in the Pyrenees, including a number of specimens of Erebia lefebvrei, 

 with E. melas from South-east Hungary, for comparison. He pointed out, and 

 illustrated by means of enlarged photographs the superficial differences in the 

 wing-markings between the two species, and also drew attention to the fact that 

 specimens of Lycxna orbitulus taken on the Simplon, Switzerland, are identical with 

 L. orbitulus var. oberthilri of the Pyrenees. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, eleven species 

 of ants taken in the hothouses in Kew Gardens in December, 1907, and January, 

 19C8, eight being new to the published Kew list, and six species not before recorded 

 as introduced in Britain. Mr. J. E. Collin, microscopically mounted specimens of 

 Epldapus scabiei, Hopk , a potato pest in the United States, and recently discovered 

 in England attacking narcissus bulbs by Mr. H. J. Charbonnier, of Bristol. Com- 

 mander J. J. Walker, on behalf of Mr. A. II. Hamin, very young larvae of Sitaris 

 muralis, hatched at end of October and beginning of November from ova laid by 

 ? s in captivity (the natural place of deposit of these eggs being at the entrance to 

 the burrow of the bee, Anthophora pilipes, in stone walls near Oxford). He also 

 exhibited two specimens of the rare Pyralis Uenigiah's, Zell., ? , taken at light in his 

 house, Summertown, Oxford, August, 1906 and 1907- Mr. Rowland E. Turner, a box 

 of Thynnidm from South America, mostly from Chile, and new species from Mendoza 



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