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Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, May 4th, 1910. — 

 Dr. F. A. DiXET, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The decease was announced of Mr. G. S. Saunders, F.L S., a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Mr. J. J. Ward brought for exhibition an example of the ichneunion-fly, 

 Bhyssa 2}crsuasoria, 9 , together with a photograph of the living insect. The 

 specimen was captured at Coventry ; bvit whether that place was its natural 

 habitat is doubtful, as some packing straw from Geneva was lying in the 

 vicinity. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, on behalf of Dr. Nicholson, Mr. Dollman, 

 and himself, examples of a species of Olophrum new to science, and Scotch 

 specimens of Olophrum fuscum, Grav., the species to which it comes nearest, 

 for comparison. The specimens of the new beetle were taken by Dr. Nicholson 

 and himself in Wicken Fen under sedge refuse, and subsequently by Mr. Doll- 

 man in some numbers in the same locality. Mr. Donisthorpe pointed out the 

 characters in which it differed from 0. fuscum, and said he had described it, and 

 proposed for it the name of Olophrum nicholsoni. Mr. H. Eltringham stated 

 that in reference -to his previous paper describing experiments on the edibility 

 of certain Lepidopterous larvee (Trans. Ent. Soc, 1909, pp. 471-478), the 

 caterpillars there I'eferred to as Boarmia rhomboidaria had proved to be 

 Odontopera hidentata. Further, that some of the moths had been bred from 

 larviB fed exckisively on ivy, and thoiigh similar larvse had, as explained in the 

 paper referred to, proved extreraely distasteful to the lizards with which he had 

 experimented, the moths were found to be palatable. His lizards having failed 

 to siu'vive the winter, he had sent the moths to the Zoological Gardens where 

 Mr. Pocock had given one to a bird and two to some lizards {Lacerta viridis), 

 and all of the moths had been devoured at once. The result, therefore, appeared 

 to show that the distastefulness of the larvae was due to the particles of the 

 food-plant contained in the digestive tract. Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S., 

 communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from 

 Maru-itius, and the Chagos Isles." 



Wednesday June 1st, 1910. — President in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Merrifield, and Mr. E,. Trimen, F.R.S., were appointed to act as 

 additional delegates to the International Congress of Entomology at Brussels 

 in August. 



The President announced that the Conversazione, postponed from Friday, 

 May 27th last, by reason of the general mourning for His late Majesty King 

 Edward VII, would be held during the forthcoming session on some date not 

 earlier than the last week in November. 



Mr. Arnold Whitworth Boyd, The Alton, Altrincham, Cheshire ; Mr. Emile 

 Garcke, M.I.E.E., Witton House, Maidenhead; Mr. Henry Oliver Holford, 

 Elstead Lodge, Godalming ; Count Birger Morner, Consul for H. M. the King 

 of Sweden, Sydney, New South Wales ; Mr. C. W. Mason, S.E.A.C., St. Denis, 

 Shaftesbury, Dorset ; Mr. Martin E. Mosely, 13, Addison Eoad, London, W. ; 

 Mr. Eobert Tait, junior, Eoseneath, Harboro' Eoad, Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire ; 

 Mr. Frank Wray Terry, The Planters' Association, Honohdu, Hawaiian Islands ; 

 Mr. F. V. Theobald, M.A., South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye Court, near 



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