SOCIETIES. 199 



The "paper" enclosing the speciuiea boi-e the following note: — 

 " 8 a.m. Half mile [from Oni clearing]; January 80th, 1912. 

 Observed flying up and down. It then settled on upper surface of leaf 

 and started to pass its brushes to and i'ro over its scent patches, exactly 

 as Aiiiauris niaciim did. Wings were rather over-flexed." Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey and Professor Kellogg, of California, commented on this exhibit. 

 A/iril Srtl. — The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr. 

 Henry Hacker, Queensland Museum, Bowen Bridge Road, Brisbane, 

 Queensland ; Mr. Cyril Engelhart Latour, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 

 British West Indies ; Signor Omzio Querci, Macerata, Marche, Italy. 

 The Council having been invited to elect Delegates to represent the 

 Society at various functions, the following bad been elected : — for the 

 Centenary Celebration of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Professor Comstock and Dr. Holland ; Professor Fernald, 

 who had also been elected, was unable to attend; for the First Eugenic 

 Congress, in July, Professor Bateson ; for the 250th Anniversary of 

 the Royal Society, in July, the President; for the International 

 Congress of Entomology, in August, the President, the Rev. G. 

 Wheeler, Secretary, and Messrs. G. T. Bethune-Baker, H. Rowland- 

 BroAvn, and the Hon. W. Rothschild. Parasites on a Parasite. — Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker exhibited a specimen oiCi/clo/wdia hnpei, Westw., 

 a parasite on the Indian Flying-fox ; this was itself parasitized by an 

 Aranoi of the Genus GainaKSKs, there being no less than seventeen of 

 this small species on one specimen of f. hopei. There being no other 

 exhibits and no papers to be read, the President said that he thought 

 it would be a good opportunity to discuss the important subject of 

 Nomenclature, and a long discussion took place, in which many of the 

 Fellows present took part. Eventually Mr. H. J. Turner proposed that a 

 small Committee be appointed to consider the subject of Nomenclature 

 and report to the June meeting, with a view to the coming Interna- 

 tional Congress. This was seconded by Mr. A. E. Gibbs, and carried 

 neui. con. The following Fellows were proposed as forming the 

 Committee, and the names being put from the Chair were unanimously 

 accepted : — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker. Dr. T. A. Chapman, Messrs. 

 J. H. Durrant, H. J. Turner, C. 0. Waterhouse and Rev. G. Wheeler, 

 with power to add to their number. (Subsequently ]\Ir. L. B. Prout 

 was asked to join this Committee.) 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 —Febniari/ 8t/i. — Aberration of P. atalanta.— Mr. R. Adkin ex- 

 hibited an aberration of Pijranieis atalanta with a flesh coloured band 

 on the forewing. Aberration of E. annulata.— Mr. Newman, a series 

 of Ephyra annulata var. ohsoleta, in which the discoidal rings on the 

 forewings were absent. Microscopic slides. — Messrs. Mitford, 

 Edwards, Coxhead and West (Ashtead) exhibited slides under the 

 microscope. Febnianj 22n(l. — Diptera from ^Milford. — Mr. Andrews, 

 a number of species of the Tri/iielidae family of the Diptera, all from 

 near Milford Haven. Dwarf C. edusa. — Mr. Turner, a dwarf example 

 of Colias ediisa from Villeneuve, measuring 32mm. in expanse. Lap- 

 land Brenthids. — Mr. Sheldon, the Brenthids he took last year in 

 Lapland, B. friijfja, B. freija, B. polarifi, &c., and gave full notes on 

 their characteristics and habits. Lantern slides. — Lantern slides 

 were exhibited by Messrs. West (Ashtead), Dennis, Tonge and Main. 

 March 14/A.— Wm. Bateson, Esq., M.A.. F.R.S., F.E.S., and Prof. E. 



