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an address, illustrated by slides shown in the epidiascope, after which 
a vote of thanks to him was proposed by Lord Walsingham, seconded 
by Mr. W. J. Kaye, and carried unanimously, with the request that 
the address might be published as a part of the Proceedings of the 
Society——The President having shortly replied, Mr. J. Hartley 
Durrant proposed a vote of thanks to the Officers of the Society for 
their services during the past year; this having been seconded by 
Mr. A. W. Bacot and carried, the Treasurer and both the Secretaries 
said a few words of thanks in reply. 
Wednesday, February 2nd, 1916.—The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, 
M.A., F.L.8., F.Z.S8., President, in the chair.—Messrs. Frederick 
Laing, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W.; Robert Latta, 
D.Phil., Prof. of Logic, University of Glasgow; Arthur Raymond 
Palmer, Inglehome, Norton Way, Letchworth, Herts; and Yelseti 
Ramachandra Rao, M.A., Assistant Government Entomologist, Agri- 
cultural College, Coimbatore, India, were elected Fellows of the Society. 
—The President announced that he had nominated Dr. T. A. Chapman, 
Dr. C. J. Gahan, and Commander J. J. Walker as the Vice-Presidents 
for the current year.—The Secretary read a notice, signed by the 
President and six members of the Council, that a Special Meeting 
should be called to consider alterations in the Bye-laws.—Mr. G. T. 
Bethune-Baker proposed the following resolution: ‘That this Society 
would view with deep regret the closing of the Natural History 
Museum.”’—This was seconded by Mr. H. Rowland- Brown, and carried 
unanimously.—Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited a beautifully illustrated 
book entitled ‘Moths of the Limberlost,’ by Mrs. Gene Stratton 
Porter—Dr. H. Eltringham, a new mechanical stage for examining 
pinned insects.—Mr. G. T. Porritt, the three forms of Cidaria suffu- 
mata as it occurs in south-west Yorkshire-—Mr. Donisthorpe, two 
ants taken at the front—Myrmica rugulosa, Nyl., 9, taken by Mons. 
Bondroit at Ramseapelle (Yser), December 14th, and Messor barbara 
var., winged @ taken in the fire trenches at Gallipoli on December 
21st, 1915, by Lieut. Noel S. Sennett. Also specimens of the 
“Argentine Ant,” Iridomyrnex humilis, taken at Enfield and East- 
bourne.—Mr. A.W. Bacot, specimens of the butterfly Lzbythea labdaca, 
and read notes on a very numerous migration of the species at 
Freetown, Sierra Leone, on May 6th, 1915. He also exhibited a box 
containing recently hatched lice resulting from a pairing between 
Pediculus capitis, f, and P. humanus (vestementi), 2 , and remarked 
that there was no difficulty in obtaining pairings between the two 
insects in either direction.—The following paper was read: ‘On the 
Pairing of the Plebeiid Blue Butterflies,” by T. A. Chapman, M.D., 
BYZi8), HES. 
THE Sours Lonpon Entomotoaican AnD Narorau History 
Socrety.—January 13th.—Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice-President, 
in the chair.—It was reported that Mr. A. C. Morris, of Norwood, 
had been killed in action in France. Mr. Leeds exhibited a rare 
form of gynandromorphism shown in a specimen of Agriades coridon, 
the upper side of both fore wings showing male colour characteristics, 
the hind wings being completely female in colour, and females of the 
same species showing the range of ground colour on underside of 
