94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, March ith, 

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

 Beecher, of 2, Berkeley Villas, Pittsville, Cheltenham ; the Eev. K. 

 St. Aubyn Eogers, M.x^., of Eabai, Mombasa, British East Africa ; 

 and Mr. Claude Eippon, M.A., of 28, Walton Street, Oxford, were 

 elected Eellows of the Society. — The decease of Mr. Herbert Goss, 

 F.L.S., for many years a Secretary of the Society, was announced in a 

 sympathetic speech by the President. — Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited 

 a specimen of the weevil Phyllobim maculicornis, Germ., retaining 

 both the " false " mandibles, and another in which one of them is 

 intact, both from Enfield ; also a single example of P. urtica;, De G., 

 from Cheshunt, retaining one of these appendages, the particular point 

 of interest in connection with these examples being that the "false 

 mandibles " were toothed in the centre ; also a remarkable specimen 

 of the common Chrysomelid beetle, Sermyla halensis, L., from Deal, 

 showing unusual coloration of the elytra, which were blue and coppery- 

 red, instead of bright green ; and on behalf of Mr. C. J. Pool, a speci- 

 men of Otiorrhynclms tenebricosus, Herbst, from Newport, Isle of 

 Wight, and of Barynotus obsciirus, F., from Galway, Ireland ; in the first 

 of which both the pupal mandibles were toothed, and not in the second. 

 — -Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition Otiorrhynchus 

 sulcatus, Polydrusus sericeus, and Osmius bohemanni with pupal man- 

 dibles. The Otiorrliynclius was dug up in its pupal cell at Oakham in 

 1905. — The Eev. G. Wheeler showed a case containing specimens of 

 Melitteid butterflies taken by him at Eeazzino in Tessin, near Bellin- 

 zona, which he had identified with Assmann's Melitcea aurelia var. 

 britomartis, they being absolutely identical with the specimens so 

 labelled in the Swiss national collections at Berne. The close affinity 

 with M. dictynna made separation superficially very difficult, and 

 until all forms were reared from the ovum it would be impossible to 

 determine whether britomartis constituted a separate species or not. — 

 The following papers were communicated : — " Descriptions of New 

 Species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from South-East of Brazil," 

 by H. Dukinfield Jones, F.E.S. ; " Erebia lefebvrei and Lyccena 

 pyrenaica," by Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. ; " A Contribution 

 to the Classification of the Coleopterous Family Dynastidse," by 

 Gilbert J. Arrow, F.E.S. ; " Hymenoptera-Aculeata Collected in 

 Algeria by the Eev. A. E. Eaton, M.A., F.Z.S., and the Eev. 

 F. D. Morice, M.A. Part III., Anthroinla," by Edward Saunders, 

 F.E.S. 



At the Special General Meeting adjourned from February 5th, the 

 proposal to raise the Life Composition from £15 15s. to £21 was 

 rejected by a majority of three votes. — -H. Eowland-Brown, M.A., 

 Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 ^ocmTY.— February ISth, 1908.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. E. Adkin exhibited a bred series of Anticlea riibidata 

 from Devonshire, and called attention to the pale olive-brown forms 



