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of the same species for comparison, taken in the same localities during the rains. 

 He said that the exhibit illustrated the fact now widely recognised that these forms 

 varied in general correspondence with the meteorological conditions prevailing at 

 'the different seasons. Mr. Edward Harris, series of Hemeropliila ahruptaria, bred 

 ithrough two seasons by him, and showing the proportion of raelanic in light forms 

 ifroni combinations of the several parents— light and dark. Mr. Selwyn Image, 

 a (? specimen of Tortrix pronuhana, Hb., taken by Mr. Harold Cooper at East- 

 bourne, either at the end of September or the beginning of October last, and sent 

 to him on October 12th. The insect, which is about the size of T. hergmanniana, 

 is new to the British list. Commander J. J. Walker communicated a paper 

 entitled " Hymenoptera-Aculeata collected in Algeria by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, 

 M.A., and the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A. ; Part ii, Diploptera," by Edward 

 Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



Wednesday, December' 6th, 1905.— The President in the Chair. 

 Dr. O. M. Renter, of Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland, was elected an 

 Honorary Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Charles William Mally, M.Sc, Associate of the Society of Economic 

 Entomology of Washington, U.S.A., Government Entomologist for the Eastern 

 Province of the Cape Colony, and Mr. Howard Powell, of Rue Mireille, Ilyeres, 

 France, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. K. Joi'dan exhibited a series of varieties of the Mediterranean Carabus 



)fnorbill,osus, showing all intergradations from the ordinary morbillosus with broad 



prothorax and costate and catenulate elytra to the Moroccan aumonti, which has 



narrow thorax and smooth elytra. Mr. H. St. J. Donistliorpe, specimens of 



Ptinus pusillus, Sturm, recently discovered in a corn factor's shop at Edmonton. 



This species, which is common in France and Germany, has not been recorded 



hitherto in Britain. Mr. A. J. Chitty, a hermaphrodite Proctotrupid, probably 



3ne of the Spilomicrinse, Ashm. ; a sand-wasp without wings taken by Mr. Pool, 



running on a beech trunk, and named by Mr. E. Saunders as Didineis l'unicornis,'F.; 



and a J specimen of Apio7i semivittatum, Gyll. {germari, Walt.), taken many 



years ago by Mr. Walton near the Tivoli Gardens, Margate, together with a $ 



i>f the same species discovered while sweeping long grass near the Chequers Inn, 



Deal, on September 26th, 1904. Mr. F. B. Jennings, a <? and ? example of the 



, jDipteron Helophilus transfugus, L., taken from thistle heads in the marshes at 



J lEdmonton last July, and a specimen of Stenopteryx hirundinis, a parasite on 



f Iswallows and martins, found on Box Hill, Surrey, in August. Mr. G. T. Porritt, 



specimens of Odontopera bidentata ab. nigra, and stated that the melanic form was 



rapidly increasing in the Wakefield district of South Yorkshire. Dr. F. A. Dixey, 



specimens of South African Pierine butterflies taken by him in the dry season this 



year, further illustrating their forms ; and with them, for comparison, specimens 



iaken by other collectors during the rains. Mr. O. E. Janson, a <? and ? 



>f Ornithoptera chimxra, Rothsch., and some remarkable species of Delias collected 



•ecently by Mr. A. S. Meek in the mountain region of British New Guinea. 



jlPommander J. J. Walker, on behalf of Mr. A. M. Lea, Government Entomologist 



,j|)f Tasmania, a specimen of the Buprestid beetle Cyria imperialis, Don., having, in 



