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SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, February 5th, 

 1908.— Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the chair.— The President 

 announced that he had nominated Dr. Thomas Algernon Chapman, 

 M.D., E.Z.S., Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S., and Mr. 

 Henry Rowland-Brown, M.A., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 

 1908-9.— The President announced that the Council had elected Mr. 

 James William Tutt to serve as a member of the Council in the place 

 of the late Mr. Arthur John Chitty, deceased.— Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 M.Sc, of the University, Manchester, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a collection of butterflies 

 made last summer at Gavarnie, in the Pyrenees, including a number 

 of specimens of Erehia lefebvrei, with E. melas from South-east 

 Hungary, for comparison. He pointed out, and illustrated by means 

 of enlarged photographs, the superficial differences in the wing- 

 markings between the two species, and also drew attention to the 

 fact that specimens of Lycana orbitulus taken on the Simplon, Swit- 

 zerland, are identical with L. orbitulus var. oberthiiri of the Pyrenees. 

 — Mr. H. St.-John Donisthorpe showed eleven species of ants taken 

 in the hothouses in Kew Gardens in December, 1907, and January, 

 1908, eight being new to the published Kew list, and six species not 

 before recorded as introduced in Britain.— Mr. J. E. Collin brought 

 for exhibition microscopically mounted specimens of Epidainis scabiei, 

 Hopk., a potato pest in the United States, and recently discovered in 

 England attacking narcissus-bulbs by Mr. H. J. Charbonnier, of 

 Bristol. — Commander J. J. Walker showed, on behalf of Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm, very young larvae of Bitaris muralis, hatched at end of 

 October and beginning of November from ova laid by females in 

 captivity (the natural place of deposit of these eggs being at the 

 entrance to the burrow of the bee, AntlwpJwra pilipes, in stone walls 

 near Oxford). He also exhibited two specimens of the rare Py rails 

 lienigialis, ZelL, female, taken at hght in his house at Summertown 

 August, 1906 and 1907.— Mr. Rowland E. Turner brought for exhibi- 

 tion a box of ThynnidoB from S. America, mostly from Chile, and 

 several new species from Mendoza and the Peruvian Andes. — Prof. 

 T. Hudson Beare exhibited a specimen of TrachypJilceus scabnculus, 

 taken at St. Margaret's Bay in August, 1907, with the two decidu- 

 ous mandibles still in place.— Lieut.-Colonel Manders exhibited the 

 female of Papilio pkorbanta from Bourbon, an aberrant member of 

 the Nire^is group of PapiHos, and compared it with the other mem- 

 bers of the same group from the African mainland, Madagascar, and 

 Mauritius, kindly lent for the purpose by Professor Poulton. He 

 pointed out that, whereas in all the other species the females were 

 some shade of green siiTiilar to the males, the Bourbon insect was 

 more or less uniformly brown. He suggested that this was due to 

 mimicry, Euplcea goudoti, a species strictly confined to Bourbon, 

 being the model.— Dr. K. Jordan exhibited, on behalf of the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, some interesting Papilionids, including Troides 

 alexawlrcB, Rothsch., remarkable for the beauty of the male, and the 



