68 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
an ash tree in Wicken village on July 31st, 1907.—G. B. Browne; 
“ Thorndene,’’ South Benfleet, Essex. 
SOCIETIES. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL Society oF Lonpon.— Wednesday, November 3rd, 
1915.—The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, M.A., F.LS., F.Z.S., 
President, in the chair.—Messrs. H. C. Tytler, Vacoas, Mauritius, 
and Albert F. Winn, 32, Springfield Avenue, Westmount, Montreal, 
Canada, were elected Fellows of the Society.—Mr. 8. A. Neave 
exhibited a remarkable and unrecognised species of Acrea, which 
was described and figured by Lathy, in the Transactions of 
the Society for 1903, as a Lycenid, and placed in the genus 
Telipna. The name for this species will therefore stand as 
Acrea actinota, Lathy.—Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a series of the 
beetle Scymnus arcuatus. He also communicated a short paper 
descriptive of the life-history of the insect, sent to him by Fr. J. F. 
Perry.—Mr. Willoughby Ellis exhibited a teratological specimen of 
the common Lucanid beetle Sinodendron cylindricum, L.—Prof. 
Poulton a collection of insects captured February 20th, 1915, at the 
flowers of a Eucalyptus at Healesville, Victoria, by Mr. R. Kelly.—Mr. 
Arrow exhibited specimens of a new species of Thawmaglossa, bred 
from the egg-clusters of Mantidw, and read notes.—Mr. G. Talbot, 
on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, a number of new Lepidoptera from 
Dutch New Guinea, and read notes.—Mr. Stanley Edwards, a small 
box of aberrant butterflies taken by Mr. Dawson, viz. an albinistic 
specimen of Hpinephele jurtina (ab. semialba) ; melanic specimens of 
Brenthis pales, Melitea dictynna, and M. didyma, a striated specimen 
of Agriades escheri and a specimen of Polyommatus hylas with obso- 
lescent spotting. The specimen of M. didyma was taken at Digne, the 
other in Switzerland. Paper.—The following paper was read, ‘‘ On 
New and Little Known Species of Xylophilide,” by G.C. Champion, 
A.TS., FHS. 
Wednesday, November 17th, 1915.—The Hon. N. Charles Roth- 
schild, M.A., F.L.S.. F.Z.S., President, in the chair.—Messrs. John 
Wesley Carr, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Professor of Biology in Univer- 
sity College, Nottingham, and Albert Harry Hamm, 22, Southfield 
Road, Oxford, Assistant in the Hope Department, Oxford University 
Museum, were elected Fellows of the Society.—The President said 
he was sure the Fellows would wish, without passing any formal 
vote, to express their regret at the death of the late Professor 
Meldola, formerly President of the Society.—The Secretary announced 
that the Council had nominated all the officers for re-election, and 
proposed the following Fellows to act as the Council for 1916: 
Messrs. A. W. Bacot, E. A. Butler, B.A., B.Sc.. T. A. Chapman, 
M.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., E. A. Cockayne, M.A., M.D., J. C. F. Fryer, 
M.A., C. J. Gahan, M.A., E. E. Green, F.Z.S., G. B. Longstatf, M.A., 
M.D., G. Meade-Waldo, M.A., 8. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc., H. Rowland- 
Brown, M.A., A. E. Tonge.—Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited on behalf of 
Mr. L. H. Bonaparte Wyse a number of Coleoptera taken by him in 
Ireland this year.—Dr. Cockayne exhibited a series of Dysstroma (?) 
