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The Entomologicai, Society of London. — March 20lli. — The 

 following weie elected Fellows of the Society: — Messrs. T. W. Alien, 

 M.A., 30, Blenheim Gardens, Cricklewood. N.W.; Edward S. A. Baynes, 

 120, Warwick Street, Eccleston Square, S.W. ; Gerald Bedford, 

 EntomoloGrist to the Union of South Africa Dept. of Veterinary 

 Science, Oudestepoort, Transvaal; Capt. Kenneth A. C. Doig, R. A.M. C, 

 M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., Villa Sorrento, York Road, Woking; Messrs. 

 Herbert L. Earl, 35, Leicester Street, Southport, Lanes.; C. Jenimett, 

 Ashford, Kent, and South-Eastern Airricultural College, Wve, Kent ; 

 R. D'A. Morrell, Authors' Club, 1. Whitehall Court, S.W.'; Charles 

 A. Schunk, Ewelme, Wallingford. The death was announced of Mr. 

 H. J. Adams, of Roseneath, Enfield. A Coleopteron new to 

 Britain. — Commander J. J. Walker exhibited specimens of Clavitier 

 loni/irontis, Miill. (with ('. festaceiift, Preyssl., for comparison), a species 

 of Colenptern new to the British list. Ants and Dipterous Larvae. — 

 Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Micmdun mntahilix, bred in his 

 observation nest of Formica fi(.<<ra, from Porlock, also the nest itself 

 with the ants and a live larva of Microclon taken at Porlock, April 

 27th, 1911, and pupa cases and larvae of the Hy in spirit. Mr. W. C. 

 Crawley said that he had found one larva in a nest of Mifnnica 

 riif/inndis instead of the usual host Formica /W.sca. Lepidoptera with 



the " NePTIS " pattern, t'OLIiE(;TED BY C. A. WkJGINS NEAR EnTEBBK 



IN 1909. — Professor Poulton exhibited the insects in the following 

 list ; all the specimens had been captured in forests within a few 

 miles of Entebbe, between May 23rd and July 25th, 1909. Xe/ititloi'i^is 

 ophione, Cram., Xeptin ineliccrta, Drury, A', m/at/ia, Stoll., X. nietella. 

 Dbl.-Hew., xV. nianiiedes, Hew., var. qiiintilla, Mab., .V. neuietes, Hew., 

 N. mclara, Boisd., A\ nyaiadea, Hew., ab. cimtinuata, Holl., .V. pucllu, 

 Auriv., Deilemera lenconoe, Hopff., D. tranaitella, Strand. Two African 

 Species of the Danaine genus Tirumala (Melinda) as Models, and 

 ONE AS a Mimic— Professor Poulton exhibited T. j'i)rmosa, Godman, 

 and its mimic Papiiio rcr, Oberth., from the Kikngu Escarpment, near 

 Nairobi, British East Africa: the same Danaine, and the transitional 

 Papiiio coiiniii.vta, Auriv., from Nyangori, at the N.E. corner of the 

 Victoria Nyanza; /'. merccdonia, Karsch, and Papiiio niimeticici, 

 Rothsch., from Buddu on the W. shore of the lake : and T. inorf/cni, 

 Plonrath, with three of its Amatnis. models — pai/ftalca, Plotz, hecate, 

 Butler, and an undetermined species, probably new, from the 

 Cameroons. Neptis swynnkrtoni, a new species from S.E. Rhodesia. 

 — Professor Poulton exhibited the male and female types, described by 

 Mr. Rowland Trimen, P.R.S., together with a specimen captured in 

 the garden at Chirinda (3800 ft.) on March 28th, 1911, by Mr. C. F. 

 Swynnerton. Two W. African Lycenid.e of thk genera Epitola 

 and Hewitsonia. — Professor Poulton exhibited the three largest 

 L//cfl^;i/'/rt*' captured by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, and suggested that an 

 undetermined pupae in the nest of OecoplnjUa might possibly belong to 

 one of them. The three large species were Fjiittda honor iitu, F., male 

 and female, /*,'. postliKiims, F., male, and Hcnitaonia hoisdnrali. Hew., 

 male and female. .\mauris eijialea stroking the brands of the 

 HiNDwiNGs WITH ITS AN'AL TUFTS. — Professor Poultou exhibited a male 

 Aiiiaaris et/ialeo. Cram., recently received from Mr. W. A. Lamborn. 



