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The Entomological Society of London. 



October Mi, 1922. — Obituary. — The deaths of the following 

 Fellows were announced, and a vote of condolence with their relatives 

 was passed : — Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., one of the special Life 

 Fellows of the Society, Mr. Hamilton H. Drace, Mr. Arthur Home, 

 Mr. Frank M. Littler, and Mr. G. 0. Sloper. 



The Collection of Portraits. — The Treasurer made a statement 

 as to four new portraits that had recently been hung in the Meeting 

 Room, and a portrait of the late Dr. Sharp presented by Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas, for addition to the collection, was gratefully accepted. 



Election of Fellows. — The following were elected Fellows of the 

 Society: — Messrs. Guy Babault, 10, Rue CamillePerier, Chaton, 

 Seine-et-Oise, France, and Albert E. Waight, Briinleigh, Kent Bank 

 Road, Grange-over-Sands. 



Exhibits. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited some moths from the 

 Farn Collection including the rare type form of Sarrothriptis revaijajia, 

 Scop., as well as ab. raimmnta, Hb., and ab. degenerana, Hb. ; also 

 Acrobasis tiiiiiidaua, Schiff., and A. zelleri, Rag. 



Professor Poulton, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks on the 

 position of the wings when at rest of living example of Polygonia 

 c-albuin. 



Mr. Arthui" Dicksee exhibited some rare butterflies from Ecuador. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey, F.R.S., commented on some recent observations 

 he had made on the scent of butterflies, chiefly Pierines. 



Mr. H. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Aulnninm riificorne, 01., 

 and Ili/pophloeiis fiaj'tni, Kug., two beetles new to the British list 

 taken in the Forest of Dean. 



October 18th. — New Fellows. — The following were elected : — 

 Messrs. S. Stuart Light, Redcot, Linton Road, Hastings ; G. H. E. 

 Hopkins, Downing College, Cambridge ; V. G. L. van Someren, CM. 

 25, Nairobi, Kenya Colony. 



Exhibitions. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a series of both sexes of 

 Leptiira rubra, taken in Norfolk. 



Dr. K. Jordan, F.R.S., exhibited some Notodontid Moths, the males 

 of which have a remarkable organ on the side of the abdomen, the 

 function of which seems to be to transmit scent from the abdomen to 

 the hairy hind tibia and hindwing. 



Professor E. B. Poulton read a communication from Dr. R. C. L. 

 Perkins, F.R.S., on seasonal changes in the colours of the female of 

 Agriades thetis (6(^^/«)v/;(*), and exhibited specimens of the males I'apilio 

 dardanm, from Kibwezi, Kenya Colony, in which the colouring of the 

 hindwing was of the western pattern. He also exhibited a living and 

 healthy larva of Abraxas (jrossidariata, the only survivor of a fifth 

 inbred generation that had been sleeved out on Prunua pissardii as long 

 ago as July 21st, 1921. 



Papers. — The following papers were read:— On Schmit-Goebl's 

 Types of Carabidac, by Mr. H. E. Andrewes. On the Larva and Pupa 

 of Sabatinea, by Dr. R. J. Tillyard. On Endomychiid Coleoptera, by 

 Mr. G. J. Arrow. On the Biology of some British Neuroptera, by Mr. 

 C. L. Withycombe. On the Rhopalocera of the 1921 Mt. Everest 

 Expedition, by Mr. H. D. Riley. 



