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We(hicsday, March IQDi, 1910. — The President in the Chair. 

 Mr. Echnond AVace Carlier, M.S.C., M.D., F.K.S.E., of the University, 

 Birming-hani ; Mr. Herbert Alfred Green, of the Central Fire Station, Dui-ban, 

 Natal ; Mr. Philip Harwood, of 23, Northgate End, Bishop's Stortf ord ; Mr. J. 

 Henderson, of Clifton, Ashbormie, Derby ; Mr. Lionel Leslie Jacobs, Shelford, 

 Copers Cope Eoad, Beckenham ; Mr. William LaitUaw, 73, Endsleigh Gardens, 

 Ilford, Essex, and 74, Great Tower Street, E.C. ; Mr. H. S. Leigh, of the 

 University, Manchester ; Mr. F. Graham Millar, of Seafield, Batu Tiga, 

 Selangor ; Mr. Francis AUcock Oldaker, M.A., of the Eed House, Haslemere ; 

 Mr. Aiya^jpa Raman Pillai, Trivandrum, India, and 13, Biiccleuch Place, 

 Edinburgh ; Professor Reginald Crundall Punnett, M.A., of Gonville and Caius 

 College, Cambridge ; and Messrs. James M. Williams and ¥. E. Scott, of 

 the Howard Motor Garage, Cardiff, and Canford Cliffs, Hants. ; were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited examples of Cremastogaster scutellaris 

 5 5 , Colobopsis truncatus $ $ ," and a beetle, Fonnicomus pedestris, a good mimic 

 of the latter ant, all taken in virgin cork at Kew, May, 1909. Commander J. J. 

 Walker, E..N., living specimens of Holoparamecus caularum, Aube, taken com- 

 monly in haystack refuse at Water Eaton, Oxon., on Mai'ch 14th. Mr. H. M. 

 Edelsten, photographs of the anal appendages of Tajnnostola hellmanni, 

 T. concolor, and T. fulva, showing their remarkable similarity ; also ova of the 

 same species in situ. The photographs were the work of Mr. H. Main and 

 Mr. A. E. Tonge. Mr. G. W. Nicholson, a specimen of Dyschirius angustatus, 

 Ahrens, from Littlestone, Kent, taken in July, 1906 ; two specimens of Bem- 

 bidium 4-23Ustulatum, Dej., taken at Pvdborough in June, 1909; and two specimens 

 of Conosoma hip^uictatum, Gr., f oiuid by Mr. Jennings and himself at Broxboui-ne, 

 Essex, in January of this year. Dr. T. A. Chapman, series of Gallophrys avis 

 bred this spring, together with C. rubi for comparison, and pointed out the princi- 

 pal superiicial differences between these two closely allied species. The s]3eciinens 

 show much vmiformity in size, more on measvu'ement than in appearance (due to 

 setting ?) the range being 33 to 3(3 mm. They show, when placed together, a very 

 bright and fairly uniform red tint, markedly contrasting with the ruddiest rubi 

 he has, and looking brilliant beside them. The females are rather larger than the 

 males. Mr. J. W. Tutt read a note on the several forms of Hydrsecia occui-ring 

 in Britain, and showed examples to illusti-ate the superficial differences where 

 discoverable, and the marked difference in the anal appendages of the several 

 species, Hydrsecia nictitans, H. paludis, U. lucens, and H. crinanensis. Excellent 

 photographs of the genitalia of the four British species (both sexes) made by 

 Mr. F. N. Pierce were handed round for examination. The Eev. C. E. N. 

 BuiTOws, to whose research the discovery of H. crinanensis is due, stated that 

 it seemed to him amazing that two species showing so much difference as 

 Hydrsecia lucens and H. crinanensis in their genitalia, should present no 

 definitely marked superficial character in the imago. Dr. Karl Jordan con- 

 sidered that the four species, as proved by the differences in the genitalic 

 strixctures, were abundantly distinct, and brought forward a parallel case among 

 the Attacids. Mr. J. C. Kershaw contributed a paper on '' The Oothecse of an 

 Asilid {Promachus sp.)." Dr. T. A. Chapman read a note entitled " Xanthandrus 

 comtus, Harr., a Correction." — H. Row land-Beg wrN, Hon. Secretary. 



