198 rJ"»«' 



Greenwich, specimens of Bruchus chinensis L. (itectinicornis L.), found in 

 lentils in a, London warehouse, also a male found at large at Dartford. 

 Dr. F. A. Dixey made a communication on the nuptial flight of butterflies. 



Wednesday, April 7th, 1915. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff, M.A., M.D., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



At the imanimous request of the Council, the Chairman proposed that a 

 letter should be written to the President on behalf of the Society, offering 

 condolences on the sudden death of his father, the late Lord Eothschild ; the 

 resolution was unanimously passed, the whole meeting rising in their places. 



Mr. William Carr, B.Sc, Station Eoad, Bentham, Lancaster, and 

 Dr. A. Eland Shaw, Saraarai, British New Guinea, were elected I'ellows of the 

 Society. 



The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited a box of Algerian biitterflies, of species 

 treated of by Mons. Ch. Oberthiir in the recently published fascicule x. of his 

 Lepidopterologie Comparre; many of the species were exhibited for the fii'sttime 

 in England. Mr. O. E. Janson, a new species of Coelorrhina ({■Am.ily Cetoniidae) 

 in which the cephalic male armature usual in this genus was entirely absent, 

 and to which he had given the name mutica. Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, a 

 British variety of the Pentatomid bug, Palomena prasina L., differing from the 

 type in its larger size and dark olive coloiu- ; it was taken on ivy at Torquay, 

 May 25th, 1907. Mr. E. B. Ashby, several species of North American Papilios. 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe showed a chart of the names applied to the genital 

 armature of male ants, and read notes. The Eev. F. D. Morice exhibited a 

 series of lantern slides to show the structure of the g genital armature and the 

 ventral segments adjoining it in various groups of Aculeate Hymenoptera, and 

 more particiilarly the characters exhibited by two of these segments (the 7th 

 and 8th) in 35 Palaearctic species of the Genus Hylaetis F. (Prosopis of Jurine 

 and most recent authoi-s). 



The following paper was read :— " Hymenopterous Parasites bred from the 

 Pupae of Chortophila hrassicae Bouchc and Acidla heraclei L.," by J. T. Wads- 

 worth, Research Assistant, Dept. of Entomology, University of Manchester ; 

 communicated by Dr. A. D. Imms, D.Sc, B.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. — Geo. Wheeler, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



STUDIES IN HELOPHORINI. 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. 



Q.—GEPHELOPHOBUS AND MEGHELOPHOBUS. 



GrEPHELOPHOEUS gen. 11. 



Prothorax area-sxiperpleurali ad hashi angustissima, ante medmm sublata. 

 Palpi maxillares crassiiisculi, articido ultimo suh-symrnetric. 



This is a very interesting genus as exhibiting a passage from 

 Trichelophorns. Seidlitz placed the only species of it known to him 



