166 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



dated December 13th, 1917, from Ibadan, describing Harpagomyia 

 and other Diptera being fed by Cremastogaster ants in S, Nigeria. 



Wednesday, March &th, 1918.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, 

 President, in the chair. — Col. Wilfrid Wm. Ogilvy Beveridge, 

 E.A.M.C., C.B., D.S.O. (on active service), c/o Mr. J. H. Durrant, 

 Natural History Museum, S. Kensington, S.W., and Messrs. Patrick 

 Aubi'ey Hugh Smith, Sconner House, St. German's, Cornwall, and 

 28, Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, W., and Lionel Julian Walford, 

 The Cavalry Club, Piccadilly, W., were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Prof. Poulton exhibited the Myrmecoj)hile diptera collected 

 and the Culicid toxorhynchites bred by Mr. C. O. Farquharson in 

 S. Nigeria. Prof. Poulton said that he had recently received a letter 

 from Dr. G. Arnold, in Bulawayo, correcting the statement that he 

 had bred Osmia aurulenta from whelk shells, on the Wallasey sand- 

 hills. The shells were a species of Helix, probably nemoralis. He 

 also drew attention to " Observations on Protective Adaptations and 

 Habits, mainly in Marine Animals," published, in English, as one of 

 the papers on Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition, 1914-16 

 (' Vidensk. Medd. fra. Dansk naturhist. Foren.,' Bd. 69, pp. 57-96, 

 pi. 1), and especially the " Observations on Insects," p. 83. — Mr. 

 W. J. Kaye exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, an apparently 

 very rare Dioptid moth, Dioptis pelbtcida, Warr., and contributed 

 notes on its mimetic association with a group of small Ithomiine 

 species. — Mr. Frisby exhibited an ants' nest, and also three cells of 

 Zethus cyanopterus, a wasp of the family EuvienidcB, sent by Mrs. 

 M. E. Walsh, F.E.S., from Soekaboemi, Java, and read notes. The 

 ants, which were sent in spirit, appear to be a species oi Polyrhachis. 

 — The President exhibited a coleopterous larva, together with the 

 box in and on which it had been living for some years. He said that 

 it was the larva of a Longicorn beetle, but was unable to state the 

 species, and observed that similar instances of longevity were on 

 record. — Dr. A. J. Turner read notes on Mr. Tillyard's discovery of 

 the jugo-frenate wing structure of certain Australian Micropterygidae. 



Wednesday, March 20th, 1918.— Dr. T. A. Chapman, 'm.D., 

 F.Z.S., in the chair. — Second Lieut. William Proctor Smith, F.Z.S., 

 Haddon House, Ashton-on-Mersey, and Messrs. John Henry Watson, 

 70, Ashford Eoad, Withington, Manchester, and Ronald Senior 

 White, Suduganga Estate, Matale, of the Board of Agriculture, 

 Ceylon, were elected Fellows of the Society. Dr. Paul Marchal, 

 President of the Entomological Society of France, 89, Rue du 

 Cherche-Midi, Paris, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 

 — Dr. Turner gave an abstract of liis paper, entitled " Observations 

 on the Lepidopterous Family Cossidcc, and on the Classification of 

 the Lepidoptera," illustrated by drawings of neuration, shown in the 

 epidiascope. 



Wednesday, April 3rd, 1918.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, 

 President, in the chair. — -Dr. Allan Chilcot Parsons, M.R.C.S., 

 L.R.C.P., D.Ph., Sanitary Officer West African Medical Staff, and 

 Temp. Capt. R.A.M.C., School of Army Sanitation, Aldershot, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. — On behalf of Mr. Prideaux the 

 Secretary exhibited two black and two greeti living pupge of P. 



