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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



2, Castle Street, Ashford, Kent ; Harold H. King, Government 

 Entomologist, Gordon College, Khartoum, Sudan ; Jal Phirozshah 

 Mullan, M.A., Assistant Professor of Biology, St. Xavier's College, 

 Chunam Kiln Eoad, Grant Eoad, Bombay, India ; Edward J. Pater- 

 son, Fairholme, Crowborough ; W. Eait-Smith, 86, Gladstone Street, 

 Abertillery, Monmouthshire ; and Dr. Adalbert Seitz, 59, Bismarck- 

 strasse, Darmstadt, Germany, were elected Fellows of the Society. — 

 The Kev. G. Wheeler exhibited, on behalf of the Rev. F. E. Lowe, a 

 series of Brenthis pales taken in the Heuthal, Bernina Pass, on June 

 24th, 27th and 28th, 1912. Some were of the var. isis and some of 

 the females of the ab. napcea, but the most remarkable were very 

 pronounced examples of the ak suffusa, Wh., both male and female, 

 some of the latter being almost completely black ; also, on behalf of 

 Mr. R. M. Prideaux, a series of unusually blue females of Polyommatus 

 icarus, taken in the spring of this year in the Westerham district. 

 — Mr. L. W. Newman, a long and constant series of Melitcea aurinia, 

 bred from two batches of ova laid by North Cornwall females ; the 

 series comprised several hundred specimens and was exhibited to 

 show the very small variation in such a large number of this variable 

 species ; also, on behalf of Mr. G. B. Oliver, a varied series of 

 M. aurinia, bred by the latter, also from North Cornwall larvffi. — 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn, two larvaj and two bred imagines with corres- 

 ponding pupa-cases of the Lycaenid butterfly Eulq^hyra mirifica, 

 Hall. The larvae were found in a nest of the ant Cb]cophijlla smarag- 

 dina var. longinoda, no less than nineteen being obtained from three. 

 — Professor Poulton read a letter, written May 27th, 1912, fromPera- 

 deniya, Ceylon, by Mr. E. E. Green, describing the production of the 

 spherical structures on the cocoons of the Tineid moth Epicephala 

 chalyhacma, Meyr., and exhibited the cocoons referred to therein. — 

 Mr. J. A. de Gaye, examples of the West x\frican Agaristid moth Messaga 

 monteironis, Butler, and its model the Hesperid Pyrrhochalcia iphis, 

 Drury, captured by him. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a living Buprestid 

 larva (species uncertain) which had been found in Messrs. Allen and 

 Hanbury's works at Ware in roots of sandalwood. — Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 made some remarks on the Pierine genus Pinacopteryx, illustrating 

 them by exhibiting ixiale and female specimens of most of the 

 species, side by side with which were shown drawings made to scale 

 of the plumules characteristic of each form. — Mr. Donisthorpe 

 exhibited a specimen of Thor ictus foreli var. honnairei, Wasm., a 

 small beetle, fastened on to the antenna of an ant, Myrmecocystus 

 bicolor, F. — Mr. A. Bacot, an Acridiine Orthopteron from the Ben- 

 guella Plateau, which bore a very perfect resemblance to the scorched 

 grass-stems, on one of which it was resting ; also specimens of the 

 Dipteron Glossma j)alpalis var. toelhnani, Austen, from Catumbella 

 River. — Mr. Eltringham, two specimens of an unusually large Lasio- 

 campid larva which had been presented to the Hope Department by 

 Mr. C. A. Foster, who took them in Sierra Leone. Each larva was 

 about seven inches in length. Professor Poulton suggested that the 

 larvae might perhaps be Gonometa suhfascia Walk., or G. regia, 

 Auriv. — The following papers were read : — " On New Species of 

 Fossorial Hymenoptera from South Africa, chiefly Elidiua3," by 

 Rowland E. Turner, F.E.S. ; "The Life-History of Psejidacrcea euryius 



