80 THK entomologist's KEC0KI>. 



was announced, and a vote of thanks to him was carried with 

 acclamation. 



Nkw Fellows. — Messrs. Norman E. Miller, Dar-es- Salaam, East 

 Africa ; Oliver Richardson Goodman, 210, Goswell Road, E.G. 1 ; 

 K. P. U. U. Nair, M.A., Training College, Trivandrum ; Frank 

 Balfour-Browne, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., Oaklands, Fenstanton, St. 

 Ives, Hunts ; E. Melville Du Porte, M.Sc, Ph.D., Macdonald College, 

 Quebec, Canada ; Oliver C. Cassels, D.F.C., N.D.A., West Hill, Ottery 

 St. Mary, Devon ; 0. C. Ollenbach, Survey of India Dept., Dehra 

 Dun, India ; J. B. Corporaal, Pieter Bothstraat, 39, The Hague, 

 Holland; Douglas Cator, 13, Westminster Mansions, Great Smith 

 Street, S.W' . ; Marco Pallis, Tatoi, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool ; and 

 Samuel Walker, 53, Micklegate Hill, York. 



Exhibits. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited a series of Epinepltele 

 jnrtina from Sutherlandshire, showing an approach to var. hisindla ; 

 also Pieris napi showing an approach to var. brijoniae ; Mr. Bethune- 

 Baker a, seviesoiZ yt/aeiia /Hi iii')i(liilaeSih.clrrt/santhL')iii from Birmingham; 

 Mr. F. W. Edwards a remarkable new insect from Kashmir, which, 

 though probably representing a now family of Diptera, shows curious 

 resemblances to the Mayflies ; Mr. L. Newman a gynandromorphous 

 example of Amphidasis hetularia ab. doiibledai/aria, and an Ichneumonoid 

 parasite from Sphiux ligmtri ; Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., the 

 warble-fly of the reindeer captured with its model Bombns lapponiciis 

 var. anxrneanicus ; he also read a note regarding observations made by 

 Mr. Arthur Loveridge on the oviposition of the Mylabrid beetle, il/. 

 ocnlata, Thunb., var. tricolor, Gerst ; Canon'St. Aubyn Rogers, butter- 

 flies from East Africa, including remarkable females of Papilio 

 dardanus, examples of Papilio rex and Miiiiacraea inarshalli var. 

 dohertyi ; Dr. W. A. Lamborn, an oriental Danaine butterfly brushing 

 the brands on its hindwings ; Mr. G. Talbot (on behalf of Mr. J. J. 

 Joicey), new and rare butterflies from New Guinea and Peru ; Mr. H. 

 Donisthorpe, a rare British Aphid, Stotiiaphifi qnercas, L. 



Lantern slides. — Mr. A. T. J. Janse concluded his account on 

 methods of collecting while travelling in South Africa, illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



Xovt'i)d>er IQtIi. — Aitev some discussion it was decided to hold an 

 informal meeting on January 4th, 1922, from 5.30-7.30 p.m. 



Exhibits. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, a new race of the Ithomiine butterfly, 

 Dirvenna lenea, from Trinidad, with a series of the typical forms from 

 the Potaro district of British Guiana ; Mr. A. W. Bacot, enlarged 

 microphotographs of the eggs of bed bugs ; Mr. W' . G. Sheldon, Lepi- 

 doptera from Sutherlandshire; Dr. E. A. Cockayne, an example of 

 Pip-aineis aUdanta with larval head ; Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 discussed the question of fluorescence as evidence for the evolution of 

 the pigments of mimetic females from those of their non-mimetic males, 

 and said that with the help of Dr. Cockayne, he had been able to 

 examine for fluorescence the Nairobi forms of Papilio dardanim that 

 had been shown by Canon St. A. Rogers at the last meeting; Mr. H. 

 Donisthorpe, specimens of theChalcid, Spalamjia erjithromera, together 

 with its ])iptei'ous host, and the ant Acant/ioini/ops fidipinosus in the 

 nest of which those insects live. 



Communication. — Dr. Neave read a translation from the German of 

 an amusing skit on modern systems of Zoological Nomenclature. 



