142 Proceedings. 



On the motion of Mr. C. Bailey, seconded by Mr. J. 

 'Cosmo Melvill, the report and accounts were adopted. 



Mr. F. R. Curtis was elected an associate of the section. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers and 

 members of council for the ensuing session : — 



$lrcsibcut. 



J. COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S. 



CHARLES BAILEY, F.L.S. 



ALEX. HODGKINSON, B.Sc, M.B. 



Prof. W. C. WILLIAMSON, LL.D., F.R.S. 



%)on. 'Olrciisucei-. 



MARK STIRRUP, F.G.S. 



gioiu §aTCtiiri). 

 JOHN BOYD. 



dLoxuxcii, 



W. BLACKBURN, F.R.M.S. 

 PETER CAMERON, F.E.S. 

 H. C. CHADWICK. 

 R. E. CUNLIFFE. 



R. D. DARBLSHIRE, B.A.,F.G.S. 

 F. NICHOLSON, F.Z.S. 

 THOMAS ROGERS. 

 THEODORE SINGTON. 



Mr. P. Cameron, F.E.S., exhibited specimens of spiders 

 and ants to show mimicr}% also Arenetra pilosella, Grav., a 

 genus and species of IcJincmnonidce new to the British fauna. 

 It was taken on Ben Lawers at Easter last year, on the 

 snow, at an elevation of over 2,500 feet. 



Mr. H. C. Chadwick showed under the microscopes 

 specimens of a new species of parasitic Copepoda LicJio- 

 molgiis sabellcEy discovered by him August, 1887, clinging by 

 means of its peculiarly modified posterior antennae to the 

 branchial filaments of Sabclla penicillus, a tubicolous annelid 

 found in great abundance on the beach at Beaumaris. 



Mr. P. Cameron, 1\E.S., read a paper entitled " Descrip- 

 tions of twenty- three new species of Hymenoptera." 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited his 

 collection of Cyprcea^ and read a paper entitled "A survey of 

 the genus Cypra^a (Linn.), its Nomenclature, Geographical 

 District, and Distinctive Affinities ; with descriptions of two 

 new species, and several varieties." 



