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the flora which of course largely determines it, is much more English 

 than that of the fauna of, say, the south of France, and the fact that 

 a large proportion of the forms are either the same as, or nearly akin 

 to English species, at once strikes the collector ; inachaon, for instance, 

 is the only Papilio found below the highlands; and other examples of 

 English forms are rapae, daplidice, croceus, painphilus, and atalanta ; 

 besides the more widespread astiarclie = iiiedon, )iic;/era, icarns, and 

 llava = t/iaiiiiios ; and of course the ubiquitous cardin." 



The Annales Snc. Knt. de France for 1921 have been recently com- 

 pleted. Most of the papers deal with Coleoptera and Diptera. Only 

 one each is devoted to Lepidoptera and Odonata. There are six plates 

 and 856 pages of letterpress. The Ihdletin (Proceedings) for the 

 same year occupies another 308 pages. 



isi C I E T I E S . 



The Entomological Society of London. 



Maij 'drd. — Decease of two Fellows. — The President announced 

 the death of Mr. A. W. Bacot, of York Cottage, York Hill, Loughton, 

 Essex, and of Mr. Gilbert Storey, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Cairo, Egypt, and a vote of condolence was passed to their relatives. 



New Fellows. — The following were elected Fellows of the Society : 

 Mr. C. L. Collenette, c/o Messrs. Barker and Co., Singapore ; and Mr. 

 Michael G. L. Perkins, 4, Dean's Y'ard, Westminster Abbey, S.W. 1., 

 and Trinity College, Cambridge. 



PoRTKAiTs OF Eminent Fellows. — The Treasurer called attention to 

 additions to the collection of portraits in the meeting room, and 

 especially to a beautiful pencil drawing, from a photograph, of the late 

 Dr. Longstafit". 



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

 , roxelana from Herculesbad, and P. climene from Sarepta. 



Professor E. B. Poulfcon, F.R.S., read some notes on the life- 

 history of Catachri/sops phamiia, and on the life- history of a Bethylid of 

 the genus Cephalonomia, Westw., observed at Oxford by Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm, and illustrated some of his remarks with lantern slides ; he 

 also read some interesting notes on the habits of the Driver-ant, 

 Dorylus 7iii/ricans, Illig., in Tanganyika Territory. 



Mr. C. L. Withycombe exhibited larvae and an adult of Osnujlus 

 chrysojjs with some enlarged figures of them, and also some larvae of 

 the mosquito Taeniorlii/ncus rirhardi taken in Epping Forest. 



Papers. — " The Mdllnphcuja of the Oxford University Expedition to 

 Spitzbergen," by Dr. J. Waterston, B.D., D.Sc. ; "The Dasi/tinae of 

 South Africa," by Mr. G. C. Champion, F.Z.S., A.L.S. ; "A 

 monograph of the genus Catnclirysnps,'' by Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, 

 F.L.S. ; and " The Species of the genus Larinojioda," by Dr. H. 

 Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



Jioie Itlt. — Decease of a Fellow. — The President announced the 

 death of Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., formerly Secretary of the 

 Society, and a vote of condolence with his relatives was passed. 



New Member of Council. — He also announced that Mr. H. 

 Willoughby Ellis, F.Z.S. , had been co-opted on the Council in the 

 place of the late Mr. Rowland-Brown. 



