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Neave, M.A., B.Sc, F.Z.S. ; Herbert E. Pcage.— The President 

 then delivered an address, after which Mr. Simes proposed a vote of 

 thanks to him, which was seconded by Dr. Eltringham ; the Presi- 

 dent, in returning thanks, spoke of the neglect of the biological 

 sciences on the part of the Government. — Mr. Collin then proposed 

 a vote of thanks to the officers, which was seconded by Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe, both of whom made special allusion to the regret felt by the 

 Society at the retirement of Mr. Jones from the Treasurership, after 

 so long a period of very efficient work in the Society's interests. — 

 The two Secretaries said a few words of thanks, the Treasurer and 

 the Librarian being absent. 



Wednesday, February 6th, 1918.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, 

 President, in the chair. — The President nominated Dr. H. Eltringham, 

 Mr. A. H. Jones, and Mr. S. A. Neave as Vice-Presidents for the 

 ensuing year. — Dr. John Adams Comstock, Curator of the South- 

 Western Museum, 1275, Bellevue x\venue, Los Angeles, California, 

 U.S.A., and Mr. James W. Monro, Lieut. E.A.M.C, 2nd Sanitary 

 Coy., Duke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea, S.W., were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a (^ and ? of 

 Ccenocara siibglohosa, Muls., a beetle new to Britain, which he had 

 bred from a "puff-ball" [Lycopcrdon gernmatum) taken at Barton 

 Mills, Suffolk, on September 9th, 1917, together with a specimen 

 (?) of Ccenocara bovistcB, Hoff. Also specimens of Cryptoiihagus 

 lovendali, Ganglb., which he had found in large numbers in a nest of 

 Vespa germanica in a tree in Eichmond Park on November 20th, 

 1917 ; a species of which only two specimens had been taken in 

 Britain before. — Hemipterous ova: Mr. E. A. Butler exhibited ova 

 of the following species of Hemiptera : Two species of Pentatomidae, 

 Piezodorus lituratus, Fabr., and Pentatovia ricfipes, L. ; Chorosovia 

 schillingi, Schml., a Coreid bug ; two species of Berytus ; three 

 Eeduviidas, Coranus subaptcrus, L., Nabis major, Costa, and N. 

 rugosus, L. ; a Capsid bug, Miris hevigatus ; three water bugs, 

 Naucoris cimicoides, L., Notonecta glauca, L., and Nepa cinerea, L. 

 — Mr. Kaye exhibited from Mr. Joicey's collection series of the two 

 Catagramma species, pastazza and excelsior, with races and forms of 

 each, pointing out that the two groups of insects were at once separ- 

 able by the different tips to the antennte ; also a striking new species 

 of Dynamine [D. agatha) from Bolivia. — Lord Eothschild exhibited 

 a series of Pseudacrteas in illustration of a paper on the mimetic 

 associations of these butterflies. — Prof. Poulton said that he had 

 recently received from Capt. G. D. H. Carpenter a new form of 

 Pseudacrma poggei, Dew., mimicking the Dorippus, Klug, form of 

 Dauaida chrysippits, L., in ex-German East Africa. He also exhibited 

 examples of sixty-six males and eighty females of Musca autumnalis, 

 captured December 14th, 1917, in the cistern-loft of St. Helen's 

 Cottage, St. Helen's, Isle of Wight. Prof. Poulton said that he 

 wished to draw attention to an unfortunate misconception in the 

 recently issued part of M. Cliarles Oberthiir's beautiful work 

 ' litudes de Lepidopterologie comparee,' Fasc. xiv, 1917 : The Sesias 

 being mimics and not models of the Hymenoptera. Prof. Poulton 

 said that he had just received a letter from Mr. C. 0. Farquharson, 



