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London, S.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse exhibited a living Buprestid beetle of the Chrysobothris, 

 found in an orcliid-house in tlie north of London. It was probably 

 Brazilian, but there was nothing quite like it in the Natural History 

 Museum. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs brought for exhibition a case containing 

 a series of Parnassius apollo taken by him this year in the Valine de 

 Joux, Swiss Juras, at 3300 feet, and at Eclepens. He pointed out 

 that the species in the Jura shows a tendency toward the form 

 known as ab. pseudonomion, and this is most strongly marked in 

 examples from the lower level at Eclepens. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon 

 showed a series of characteristic butterflies collected by him in June 

 of this year at Herculesbad, South-eastern Hungary. They included 

 examples of Neptis lucilla, N. aceris, Melanargia cjalatea var. procida, 

 Erehia medusa var. psodea, and Pararge roxelana as described by him 

 in the current volume of the ' Entomologist.' — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited (a) two extremely small Gupido minimus taken with normal- 

 sized examples near Winchester on June 12th, 1909, the expanse 

 of wings being 15 mm. ; (h) an example of Anthrocera achillecB, in 

 which the blotches on the fore wings were all fused together, giving 

 at a casual glance the appearance of a small A, captured at Gex, Ain, 

 France, on August 11th, 1909 ; (c) a white aberration, ab. alba, of 

 Bumicia phlceas, taken at Brasted, Kent, on August 28th ; and 

 {d) examples of Heodes virgaurea var. miegii taken at Zermatt in 

 early August, a form said to be unusual outside Spain. Var. zarmat- 

 tensis was the usual form of the female met with. — Mr. G. C. 

 Champion exhibited specimens of Melanophila acuminata, De Geer, 

 Crioceplialus ferus, Muls., and other Coleoptera found on pines near 

 Woking. He called attention to the numerous interesting forms 

 that had been found on pines during recent years, not only in the 

 south of England, but in Scotland also. The Buprestid had probably 

 not been searched for previously at the right season — during the 

 driest time at the end of the summer and early autumn — at a period 

 when few insects are to be found. He stated that he had met with 

 various other Buprestids, both in Spain and in Tropical America 

 (e.g. Buprestis sajiguinea, F., and Actenodes chalybeitarsis, Chevr.), 

 in the clry season or when the trees had been scorched by lire. — Mr. 

 Norman H. Joy showed the following new British Coleoptera : 

 Epipeda nigricans. Thorns., Pityogenes trepanatus, Nordl., both taken 

 at Blair Atholl, Perthshire, September 1909 ; Lathrobiuni dilutum, 

 Er,, captured at Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire, September 1909 ; 

 Cryptophagus p)aUidus var. argentea, var. nov., differing from the 

 type form in having silvery pubescence ; he also exhibited Philonthiis 

 trossulus, Nord., from Dalwhinnie; the genitalia of Gnathoncus 

 nidicola, Joy, and G. rotundatus, Kugel, and of Anisotoma anglica, 

 Eye, and A. cinnamomea, Er. ; and a series of Sunius lyo7iessius, Joy, 

 from the Scilly Isles, pointing out the structural characters by which 

 this species may be distinguished from S. angustatus. — Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas exhibited a very fine female example of Sympetrum fonsco- 

 lombii, Selys, exhibited on behalf of Mr. F. W. Edwards, of Cam- 

 bridge, who took it on September 24th, 1908, at Frensham Ponds, in 

 Surrey. Probably this species is always an immigrant with us, and 

 but few specimens have been recorded. — Professor E. B. Poulton, 



