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the ninth sternite in the male Earwig," by Malcolm Burr, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., 

 etc. ; " The Opisthomeres and the Gonapophyses in the Dermaptera, by the 

 same ; " On the Male Genital Armature of the Dermaptera " — Parts Ij-III by 

 the same. 



Wednesday November IHth, 1914. — The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. Harry George Champion, B.A., c/o U. S. Dept. of Agi-icultvire, 

 Entomological Bureau, Washington, U.S.A. ; J. J. Lister, St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and Morton House, Grantchester ; and Eev James Waterston, B.D., 

 B.Sc, 22, Blandford Eoad, Bedford Park, W., were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The President announced that the Royal Society had awarded the Darwin 

 Medal to Prof. E. B. Poiilton, a former President of the Entomological Society. 



Mr. E. E. Green exhibited two specimens of an A7ithrocera from Cambei'ley, 

 taken August 20th, 1914, which appeared to be A. meliloti, though South states 

 that "the only part of Bi-itain that the species inhabits is the New Forest, 

 Hampshire" ; also a specimen of the rare Hypenid Parascotiafuliginaria taken at 

 light at Camberley, July 21st, 1914. The President said that he shovdd have 

 named the specimens meliloti without hesitation, and Mr. Jones concvxrred. 

 Mr. E. B. Ashby, on behalf on Mr. Dickinson, a few butterflies from Hinter- 

 zarten in the Black Forest and from Pontresina. Amongst them was a ^ 

 Colias palaeno var. europomene, of the large form of the lower levels, and 

 another which was possibly a hybx-id between C. palaeno and C. hyale. 

 Mr. Prideaux, a cocoon of Bombyx quercus with the dead, shrivelled larva 

 inside, together with the empty puparium of a dipterous parasite, which, with 

 the wings unexpanded, lay beside it, imprisoned within the cocoon of its host. 

 Mr. Simes, a series of Agriades thersites, Plebeius zephyms var. hesperica, and 

 Melitaea desfontainii from Albarx'acin, taken at the end of May and the 

 beginning of Jxxne, 1914. The 5? $ of ^. thersites Avere stroixgly marked with 

 blue, and amongst the J c? was a specinxen, the xxnderside of which had only 

 the discoidal and marginal spots. 



The following papex-s wex-e read: " A Revision of the Mexican and Central 

 American Telephorinae (Fam. Telephoridae), with Descriptions of New Species," 

 by George Charles Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S.. F.E.S. " Descriptions of two 

 new Genera and new Speci(!s of Mijmaridae from Tasmania," by Chas. O. 

 Waterhouse, I.S.O., F.E.S. — Geo. Wheblek, Hon. Secretary. 



