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through the typical and variant forms. The only other series bred 

 from British ova by Mr. Mills in 1908 displayed no variation of any 

 kind, and were all typical specimens. — The Hon. N. C. Eothschild 

 exhibited a number of Anthrocerids captured in Great Britain, and 

 called attention to some remarkable specimens secured at Ashton 

 Wold, Oundle, which belonged to the form known as Anthrocera 

 hijjpocrepidis. The exhibitor also showed some very large specimens 

 of A. fili'pcndulcR from the same locality, and pointed out that this 

 large race had apparently exterminated A. hippocreimlis in a locality 

 where that species had only recently appeared. — Mr. J. W. Tutt said 

 that he had also found A. liipp)ocre2)idis confined to rough pastures, 

 and also with a tendency to die out in one spot and appear in a 

 similar at no great distance. It was usually on the wing in June, 

 early or late, according to season, but in the same season well ahead 

 of A. filipendidcB. The two other sets of Anthrocerids exhibited by 

 Mr. Eothschild he thought were A. filipendulce..- — -Sir George H. 

 Kenrick communicated a paper " On some Undescribed Butterflies 

 from Dutch New Guinea." — Mr. A. E. Wileman read a paper on 

 " New Species of Heterocera from Japan." 



Wednesday, November 2nd, 1910. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., 

 F.E.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. H. E. Andrewes, of 8, North 

 Grove, Highgate, N. ; Mr. J. E. Charnley, of Lyndhurst, Fulwood, 

 Preston ; the Eev. Ai-chibald Downes-Shaw, of Kettlestone Eectory, 

 Fakenham, Norfolk; Mr. G. E. Frisby, of 40, Windmill Street, 

 Gravesend ; Mr. O. M. Schmidt Gottmann, of 2, Forest Villas, 

 Whipps Cross Eoad, Leytonstone, N.E. ; Mr. Ernest Purnell Jones, 

 of 7, Nantwich Eoad, Crewe ; and Count Emilio Turati, of 4, Piazza 

 S. Alessandro, Milan, w^ere elected Fellows of the Society. — The 

 President handed round for inspection a copy of the plaquette 

 designed in honour of M. J. H. Fabre, of Serignan, Vaucluse, an 

 Honorary Fellow of the Society. — Professor T. Hudson Beare 

 exhibited examples of the rare British lieetle PterosticJms aterrivius, 

 recently taken by him at Stalham, Norfolk. — Commander J. J. 

 Walker brought for exhibition the following rare Coleoptera : — (a) a 

 specimen of Lathrobiiim longipennc, Fairm., a beetle recently intro- 

 duced as a British species, taken at Tubney, Berks ; (b) a specimen 

 of a remarkable ants'-nest beetle, communicated by Mr. C. French, 

 from the Atherton district, N.S.W., and described by Mr. A. M. Lea 

 under the name Tretothorax cleistoma, representing a new family of 

 Coleoptera, the Tretothoracidse ; also the ant with which the beetle was 

 found ; and (c) two specimens of Thomosis (juanicola, Broun, a beetle 

 allied to Sphceridium, kc, taken by Dr. L. Cockayne among penguin 

 guano on the Bounty Islands, 490 miles south-east of New Zealand. 

 Mr. G. C. Champion was of opinion that this beetle was a member of 

 the Heteromrous section of the Coleoptera, and Mr. G. J. Gahan that 

 it belonged to the newly constituted family Ehypsopaussidae. — Mr. E. J. 

 le B. Tomlin brought for exhibition examples of the following British 

 Coleoptera :— (a) Macronychus 4-tuberculatus, MiilL, recently re- 

 discovered in the Eiver Teme ; {b) Enicmus histrio, Joy and Tomlin, 

 sp. nov. ; (c) Laccobius regnlaris, Eey, from small sphagnum pools 

 at Newbury ; (d) Cionus longicollis, Bris., taken at Harewood Forest on 



