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single species consisted in reality of two. — Mr. W. E. Sharp showed 

 a small collection of Coleoptera intended to illustrate the tendency of 

 some species to micromorphism, and gave an account of the causes of 

 which these small forms were the result. — Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe 

 also exhibited, in further illustration of this characteristic, a number 

 of similarly stunted specimens. — Mr. Hamilton Druce, a case of 

 butterflies illustrating the interesting Lyc^nid genus Mimacrcca, 

 including two groups, the one mimicking the Danaine butterflies, the 

 other the Achrffiine. — The Kev. G. A. Crawshay, M.A., read a paper, 

 illustrated by lantern slides, on " The Life History of Tetropium 

 (labrieli, Weise " ; Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper, 

 illustrated by several exhibits, on " Some Teratological Specimens " ; 

 he also, with Mr. G. C. Champion, F.Z.S.. commmiicated a paper on 

 "Entomology in North West Spain"; Mr. Robert Shelford, M.A., 

 P.L.S., a paper on " The Larva of Collyris emarginatus, Dej. " ; Mr. 

 Malcolm Burr, B.A., P.L.S., "A Preliminary Revision of the Forficu- 

 lidas and Chelisochid® "; Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, F.Z.S., " Descrip- 

 tions of some New Butterflies from Tropical Africa"; and Mr. Arthur 

 M. Lea, F.E.S., "A Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian 

 Byrrhidse, with Descriptions of New Species." 



Wednesday, March 20th. — The President in the chair. — Dr. Ernest 

 Edward Octavius Croft, of 28, Hyde Terrace, Leeds ; Mr. Felix M. 

 Dames, of Berlin, W. ; Mr. Thomas Frank Partridge Hoar, of Quex 

 Lodge, West End Lane, Hampstead, N.W. ; Professor Dr. A. Jacobi, 

 Director of Zoology and Anthropology in the Ethnographical Museum 

 of Dresden ; and Mr. Harold J. White, of 42, Nevern Square, Ken- 

 sington, S.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. — It was announced 

 that the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., and Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, 

 M.A., F.R.S., would represent the Society at the forthcoming celebra- 

 tions at Upsala and Stockholm. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited several 

 species of Fhrissura and Mylothris, illustrating the remarkable 

 parallelism between different forms of the two genera, a correspon- 

 dence believed by the exhibitor to have a mimetic significance, the 

 mimicry being probably of the Miillerian kind. — The following papers 

 were communicated: — " Studies in the TetriginaB (Orthoptera) m the 

 Oxford Museum," by Joseph L. Hancock, M.D., F.E.S. ; " A List of 

 the Coleoptera of the Maltese Islands," by Malcolm Cameron, M.B., 

 R.N., and Dr. A. Camara Gatto ; " The Life History of Spindasis 

 lohita, Horsf.," by John C. Kershaw; " On the Egg Cases and Early 

 Stages of some South-Chinese CassididcB," by John C. Kershaw and 

 Frederick Muir ; " A Life History of Tesseratoma papillosa, Thunb.," 

 by John C. Kershaw, with " Notes on the Stridulating Organ and Stink 

 Glands," by Frederick Muir ; " The Vinegar Fly [Drosopkila funebris),'' 

 by Ernest E. Unwin, communicated by Professor L. C. Miall, F.R.S. ; 

 *' On the Structure and Life History of the Holly Fly," by Professor 

 Louis Compton Miall, F.R.S. , and T. H. Taylor ; " A Note on 

 Xanthorrhoe fernigata, Clerck, and the Mendelian Hypothesis," by 

 Leonard Doncaster, M.A., F.E.S. 



Wednesday, April IQth. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Sydney 

 R. Ashby, of 119, Greenvale Road, Eltham Park, Kent; Mr. Arthur 

 BuUeid, P.S.A., of The Old Vicarage, Midsomer Norton, Somerset; 



