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strawberry, and bramble blossoms, and later on lettuce leaves, which 

 they seemed to prefer. They pupated below the surface of the 

 ground in a strong cocoon. — Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited a male and two 

 females of a "stick-insect" {2 Lonchodes sp.), which is usually par- 

 thenogenetic. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse said he had bred three gene- 

 rations of this Phasmid and had had many hundreds of specimens, and 

 he congratulated Mr. Blair on having the only male he had ever seen 

 or heard of. — Dr. K. Jordan exhibited forty-six forms of Delias from 

 three mountain-ranges of New Guinea. Whereas in other districts 

 of the Oriental Region at the most seven or eight species (generally 

 four to six) may be found in any locality, a surprising number are 

 met with in the mountains of New Guinea from 3000 or 4000 ft. up- 

 wards. In suitable localities of the Owen Stanley Range no fewer 

 than twenty-four species have been obtained, of which eighteen are 

 confined to the higher altitudes. — The Rev. A. Miles Moss, the 

 following Sphingids from Para :- — AmiMmcea walkeri, Isognathus 

 excelsior, Gramviodia caicus, with pupa spun up in a leaf ; Hemero- 

 ].)lanes inuus, Eiyistor gorgon, male and female ; Pholus ^liorhas, 

 X7jlophanes nechus, with chrysalis, and X. cosmtus, female, the first 

 known specimen of this sex. — The President mentioned that the 

 University of Cambridge had decided to appoint a Demonstrator in 

 Medical Entomology. 



Wednesday, November 1st. — The Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., Presi- 

 dent, announced that the Council proposed Fr. Eric Wasmann, of 

 Valkenburg, Holland, as Honorary Fellow in the place of the late 

 Herr P. C. T, Snellen, of Rotterdam, and Prof. J. H. Comstock, of 

 Cornell University, U.S.A., for the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Dr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, both of whom 

 were then elected. The following gentlemen were elected Fellows 

 of the Society : — -Messrs. T. J. Anderson, Teaninich, Craig Millar, 

 Midlothian ; Edward Bernard Ashby, 33, Park Road, Whitton, 

 Middlesex ; W. A. Lambourn, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Omi Camp, Lagos, 

 West Africa ; J. Jackson Mounsey, 24, Glencairn Crescent, Edin- 

 burgh. — Dr. Nicholson showed a specimen of Aleochara discipennis, 

 Muls. and Rey, taken in the early part of this year from moss in a 

 small wood at Alphington, Devon. — Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, a terato- 

 logical specimen of the rare beetle Triarthron maerkeli, swept 

 in the WeUington College district this summer. It has the two last 

 joints of left antenna completely soldered together, making a two- 

 jointed instead of a three- jointed club. Also a specimen of Longi- 

 tarsus melanocephalus (?) taken by Mr. J. Collins at Oxford, with legs 

 and tarsi remarkably thickened. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, five specimens, 

 three males and two females, of Panorpa germanica, taken by Col. 

 Yerbury, four at Dingwall in May and one at Lochinver in July. One 

 male is practically immaculate, and the other two nearly so ; the 

 female from Dingwall is sparsely spotted, while the one from Loch- 

 inver is more nearly normal. — Mr. C. J. Gahan, a living specimen of 

 Aspidomorplia silacea. Boh., an African species of Cassididse, which 

 had been sent by Mr. G. St. John Mildmay from Nyali in British 

 East Africa on October 7th, reaching London on October 28th. — 

 Dr. K. Jordan announced that the Polyctenidse contained in the col- 

 lection of the British Museum, which are parasitic on bats in the 



