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The PresideTtit announced that he had appointed Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, 

 Mr. E. Ernest Green, and Dr. G. B. Longstaff to act as Vice-Presidents for the 

 current session. 



Mr. E. B, Ashby exhibited some Ruralids from Southern Europe. Mr. E. E. 

 Green, specimens of the giant glow-worm of Ceylon {Lamprophorus tenebrosus), 

 and its male — a large fire-fly. Dr. H. Eltringham, an instrument made to his 

 instructions by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, for cutting 

 paraffin blocks perfectly square preparatory to placing them on the microtome. 

 Prof. Poulton, specimens of the Australian Buprestid " Fire-beetle," Merimna 

 atrata Lap. et Gory, and read notes. He also exhibited the male and female of 

 Stigmodera conspicillata, and showed that the Australian Buprestid beetles, 

 8. conspicillata White, and (S. cyanura Hope, had been proved to be female and 

 male of the same species. Prof. Poulton said that he had recently received 

 notes upon the habits of the African ant, Megaponera foetens P., and its raids 

 upon Termites, from three different observers. These notes gave rise to a 

 number of interesting communications from various Fellows. The Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, F.E..S., a series of the fovir geographical races of Cocytia durvillei 

 Boisd., and Eucocytia meeki Roths, and Jord. Mr. Liipton commiinicated notes 

 on the life-history of Agrotis lucernea, at Torquay. Mr. Talbot, on behalf of 

 Mr. J. J. Joicey, a number of new forms of Lepidoptera to illustrate a paper 

 entitled " New Butterflies and a Moth from Biak," by J. J Joicey, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., and A. Noakes, F.E.S. 



Wednesday, March 3rd, 1915. -Mr. G. T. Bethune-Bakee, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair 



Prof. Wm. Blaxland Benham, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., University of Otago, 

 Dunedin, New Zealand, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. P. A. Buxton exhibited a short series of Brenthis pales and B. arsilache 

 from Lesjevaerk and Surendal, Central Norway. Dr. Cockayne (1) Gynandro- 

 morphous Agriades coridon, from Eoyston, Augvist, 1914. The specimen was 

 predominantly female, var. semisyngrapha ; (2) Gynandromorphous hybrid, 

 harrisoni (Ithysia zonaria $ X Lycia liirtaria $ )> bred in April, 1912, by 

 Mr. Worsley Wood. The specimen resembled a female of this hybrid, but the 

 left antenna was pectinated as in the male, the right was simple. Mr. J. Piatt 

 Barrett, a series of Euchloe damone from Mount Etna, and commented on their 

 lack of variation ; also a series of E. cardamines var. turritis, remarking on 

 their small size. Comm. Walker, on behalf of Mr. B. G. Adams (a) a magnificent 

 series of varieties of Polygonia c-album, including several strongly suffused 

 examples, from the Forest of Dean; (b) two specimens of Araschiiia levana, 

 gen. aest. pi-orsa, from the same locality, taken in 1914; (c) a gynandro- 

 morphous Urbicola comma, right side $ , left side (? , from Box Hill ; {d) a very 

 fine melanic aberration of Dryas paphia $ , taken by Mr. Rodney Wood in 

 South Wales. Mr. F. W. Edwards, two species of apterous Diptera, one 

 belonging to the Borboridae, the other to the Ephydridae, both collected in the 

 Falkland Islands by Dr. Malcolm Cameron, Fleet Surgeon, H.M.S. Cornwall, 

 on December 7th, the day before the naval battle. Both appeared to be new to 



