116 THK KNTO.MOT.OGISt's RKC'OKD. 



tort'cr, after an operation at Munich, whose addition of thousands of 

 new ncimes to our lists will not cease to give trouble to all systematists 

 and students of racial distribution. 



The South London Entomological Society propose to celebrate its 

 Jubilee this year by a Pocket-box Exhibition, to be followed by a 

 Supper, after the manner of the Verrall Supper. A committee is to be 

 appointed and arrangements will be made to carry the proposal into 

 effect in the autumn. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. 



Fehrnari/ 1st, 1922. — The President announced the Vice-Presidents 

 for the ensuing year to be Mr. R. Adkin, Mr. E. C. Bedwell, and 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S., etc. 



The Treasurer read a letter from the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 

 announcing the death of Mr. W. Purdey, of Thauet Gardens, Folke- 

 stone, and a vote of condolence was passed to his relatives. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice also gave a short account of the life of the 

 late Mr. F. W. Sladen, who was accidentally drowned in Canada. 



New Fellows. — Dr. R. E. McConnell, Arua, Uganda; H. T. 

 Fernald, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, Mass., U.S.A.; and Alfred Moore, M.D., 31, 

 Alfred Place, South Kensington. 



Exhibits. — The President, Mr. Sheldon, and Mr. Adkin, all brought 

 for exhibition some remarkable series of Cidaria trnncata, C. citrata, 

 and (.'. cnncinnata. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice made a short communication on the life- 

 history of a British sawfly, PriatipliDra pallipes, Lep. 



Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Thomas Greer, a 

 series of aberrations of British Lepidoptera from Co. Tyrone. 



Mr. Ashby exhibited some butterflies from Piedmont, Italy, and 

 said that be considered the Val di San Bartelemi, close to Nus, to be 

 one of the best collecting grounds in Northern Italy. 



Mr. J. H. Durrant, on behalf of Dr. Gahan, exhibited some living 

 examples of the Cassid beetle, Afipuloiiwrp/ia xanctaecnicis, from India ; 

 the causes of the brilliant metallic coloration of this beetle were dis- 

 cussed by Mr. Arrow, and by Mr. Willoughby Ellis, and Dr. Neave 

 commented on the habits of similar African species. 



p^PER. — A paper by Mr. Martin E. Moselj' was read on " Two new 

 British species of Hiphoptila.''' 



March 1st. — New Fellows. — The following were elected Fellows 

 of the Society: — Mrs. Margaret Rae, Courthill, Birkenhead; A. F. 

 Rosa, M.D., 28, Pitt Street, Edinburgh; Mr. Frank Russell, F.G.S., 

 Auldam House, Worksop; and Captain Francis Moysey, Sufiblk Regi- 

 ment, Talodi, Nuba Mountains, Sudan. 



Tkkasukek's announcements. — The Treasurer made a statement on 

 the Wicken Fen Fund. He called attention to the valuable work that 

 is being done on this Nature Reserve, and made an appeal for contri- 

 butions towards its maintenance. Pie also announced that the late 

 Mr. G. A. .1. Rothney had bequeathed the sum of £150 to the Society. 



Decease of a Fellow. — The President announced the death of 



