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for the Entomological Society of London was great, and highly 

 appreciated, a proof that a really energetic man with scientific tastes 

 may make an excellent secretary without being in any way a scientist. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited at the City of London Meeting on January 

 7th, amongst a large series of A<iriades bellay<n(s, a ? specimen in 

 which two-thirds of the lower left wing was of the <? blue, and some 

 small dashes of the same colour were on the upper left wing. The 

 abdomen was ? . 



At the same meeting Mr. H. M, Edelsten exhibited ^Egeria 

 andrenifurwis, reared from Kent and Bedfordshire larvae, together with 

 Meniscus hilineatus, a parasite of this species. 



At the meeting on January 21st, Mr, A. J. Willsdon exhibited 

 examples of Faran/f ei/cria, bred January 20th, 1908, from ova laid by a 

 female taken at Torquay, towards the end of September, 1907. The first 

 imago emerged on December 25th, and it Avas noticed that, although 

 the pupae remained in a warm room in which the larvae were reared, 

 emergence ceased whenever frost set in, and was not resumed until 

 milder weather returned. 



At the same meeting Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson read a paper in which 

 he advanced the theory that variations in climatic conditions tended to 

 increase or decrease sexual dimorphism. From observations made, 

 and material collected during a number of years, he deduced the theory 

 that in hot sunny years sexual dimorphism is increased, while in cold 

 rainy seasons this dimorphism is lessened. One wonders to what forms 

 of sexual dimorphism this generalisation is assumed to apply. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held on 

 February 5th, 1908, the President announced that he had nominated 

 Dr. Thomas Algernon Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Professor Raphael 

 Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S., and Mr. Henry Eowland-Brown, M.A., as 

 Vice-Presidents for the Session 1908-9. The PKEsmENT also 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. 



At the same meeting Mr. H. St. John K. Donisthorpe showed eleven 

 species of ants taken in the hothouses in Kew Gardens in December, 

 1907, and January, 1908, eight I being new to the published Kew list, 

 and six -■' species not before recorded as introduced in Britain. The 

 species were: — (1) Prenolcpis lonyiconds, Latr., ?s and ^ s. (2) 

 f Tetramoritim simillimum, Smith, ^ s. (3) Teclinomyrmex albipes, 

 Smith, 3 , ergatoid ^ and ^ s. (4) * f Wasmannia atiropunctata, 

 Roger, J , $ s and ^ s. (5) Trit/li/phothrix striatidens, Emery, 

 ^ s. (6) ■■' 1 PrenoleiJis fiaripes, Smith, <? , 2 s and ^ s. (7) 

 '■' f Flagiolepis alluardi, Forel, ^ s. (8) * t Prenolepis caeciliae, 

 Forel, "^ s. (9) f P. vividula, Nyl, ^ s. (10) '■■- f Strum ifjenys 

 royeri, Emery, ^ s. (11) * t Ponera pitnctatissiwa, sub. sp. hoerorum, 

 Forel, $ and ^ s. All found in numbers, except the Ponera and 

 the St.riiwiyenys 



Commander J. J. Walker also exhibited two specimens of the rare 

 Pijralis Ucniqialis, Zell., $ , taken at light in his house at Summertown, 

 August, 190'6 and 1907. 



Dr. K. Jordan exhibited tlie Papilionid, Troidcs alc.vandrae, Rothsch., 

 remarkable for the beauty of the J and the gigantic size of the $ , newly 

 discovered by A. S. Meek, in the north-eastern portion of British New 



