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half grown) of TripJiosa duhitata were found on the under sides of 

 buckthorn leaves. This larva has a habit of resting in a curved 

 position, with the head touching the eleventh segment. — Frank 

 LiTTLEWOOD. (To be continued.) 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, March 20th, 

 1912. — Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the Chair. —The 

 following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society :■ — Messrs. 

 T. W. Allen, M.A., 30, Blenheim Gardens, Cricklewood, N.W. ; 

 Edward Stuart Augustine Baynes, 120, Warwick Street, Eccleston 

 Square, S.W. ; Gerald Bedford, Entomologist to the Union of 

 South Africa, Department of Veterinary Science, Churchfelles, 

 Horley, and Ondestepoort, Transvaal ; Capt. Kenneth Alan Crawford 

 Doig, R.A.M.C, M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., Villa Sorrento, York Eoad, 

 Woking ; Messrs. Herbert L. Earl, 35, Leicester Street, Southport, 

 Lanes ; C. Jemmett, Ashford, Kent, and South-Eastern Agricultural 

 College, Wye, Kent ; R. D'A. Morrell, Authors' Club, 1, Whitehall 

 Court, S.W. ; Charles A. Schunck, Ewelme, Walhngford. — The death 

 was announced of Mr. H. J. Adams, of Roseneath, Enfield. —Com- 

 mander J. J. Walker exhibited specimens of Claviger longicornis, 

 -Mull, (with G. testaceus, Preyssl., for comparison), a species of 

 Coleoptera new to the British list. They were taken under stones 

 near Kirtlington, Oxfordshire, in May, 1906, and April, 1907, in nests 

 of small yellow and black ants of a species not determined, but 

 suggested by Mr. Donisthorpe to be Lasius wnbraUis. — Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe exhibited specimens of Microdon mutahilis bred in his 

 observation nest of Formica fusca from Porlock, also the nest itself 

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

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

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

 ruginodis instead of the usual host Formica fusca. — 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 : — Neptidopsis ophione, Cram., Neptis 

 melicerta, Drury, N. agatha, StoU, N. metella, Dbl., Hew., N. nico- 

 medes, Hew., var. qidntilla, Mab., N. nernetes, Hew., N. saclava, 

 Boisd., N. nysiades. Hew., ab. continuata, Holl., N. puella, Auriv., 

 Deilemera Zewconoe, Hopff., D. transitella, Strand. — Professor Poulton 

 exhibited the male and female types of Neptis swynnertoni, a new 

 species from S.E. Rhodesia, described by Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., 

 together with a specimen captured in the garden at Chirinda (3800 ft.) 

 on March 28th, 1911, by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton. — Professor 

 Poulton exhibited T. formosa, Godman, and its mimic, Papilio rex, 

 Oberth., from the Kikuyu Escarpment, near Nairobi, British East 

 Africa ; the same Danaine, and the transitional Papilio commixta, 

 Auriv., from Nyangori, at the north-east corner of the Victoria 

 Nyanza ; T. mercedonia, Karsch, and Papilio vmneticus, Rothsch., 

 from Buddu on the west shore of the lake ; and T. morgeni, Honrath, 

 with three of its Amauris models — psyttalea, Plotz, hecate, Butler, 



