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Green exhibited two specimens of an Anthrocera [ZygcRna) from Cam- 

 berley, taken August 20th, 1914, which appeared to be ^. meliloti, 

 though South states that " the only part of Britain that the species 

 inhabits is the New Forest, Hampshire." He also exhibited a speci- 

 men of the rare Hypenid Parasestia fuliginosa taken at light at 

 Camberley, July 21st, 1914. The President said that he should have 

 named the specimens mdiloti without hesitation, and Mr. Jones con- 

 curred. — Mr. E. B. Ashby, on behalf of Mr. Dickinson, a few butter- 

 flies from Hinterzarten in the Black Forest and from Pontresina. — 

 Mr. Prideaux, a cocoon of Bombyx quercus, with the dead, shrivelled 

 larva inside, together with the empty puparium of a dipterous para- 

 site, which, with the wings unexpanded, lay beside it, imprisoned 

 within the cocoon of its host. — Mr. Simes, a series of Agriades ther- 

 sites, Plebeius zephyrus var. hesperica, and Melitaa desfontainii from 

 Albarracin taken in the end of May and the beginning of June 'this 

 year. The females of A. ther sites were strongly marked with blue, 

 and amongst the males was a specimen the under side of which had 

 only the discoidal and marginal spots. — The following papers were 

 read : " A Revision of the Mexican and Central American Tele- 

 phorinse (Fam. Telephoridae), with Descriptions of New Species," by 

 George Charles Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; " Descriptions of 

 two New Genera and New Species of Mymaridse from Tasmania," 

 by Chas. 0. Waterhouse, I.O.S., F.E.S. 



Wednesday, December 27id. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., President, in the chair. — Prof. Lameere, of Brussels, was elected 

 to the Honorary Fellowship vacant by the resignation (and subsequent 

 death) of Dr. August Weismann. — The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited 

 a few Hymenoptera of various groups from Egypt, Algeria, &c., 

 showing the silvery pubescence and pale colours frequently charac- 

 teristic of Desert insects. Also a lantern slide showing the seventh 

 ventral segment in the male Prosopis commimis. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited a striking aberration of Argynnis niobe, with symmetrically 

 coalescent dark markings on the upper side and the silver spots on 

 the under side hind wing forming a triple basal blotch and marginal 

 streaks. — Mr. S. A. Neave exhibited a large series of insects, 1326 

 in all, forming the prey of a common Asilid, Promaclms fasciatus. 

 — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a specimen of Drepanepteryx phalcen- 

 oides, Linn., taken about the end of July, 1914, by Mr. E. A. C. 

 Stowell, B.A., at Bexhill. — Dr. H. Eltringham exhibited a little 

 machine of his own invention consisting of a mechanical stage 

 specially adapted for the microscopical examination of pinned insects. 

 — Prof. Poulton exhibited the flower of an Acacia, probably A. 

 haileyana, F. v. Muell., together with a female Lyc£enid, Nacaduba 

 biocellata, Feld., and the pupa-case from which it had emerged; the 

 larva bore the most remarkable resemblance to the yellow fluffy balls 

 of the inflorescence. The likeness, mainly due to the long yellow 

 hairs with which the larva was clothed, was increased by its atti- 

 tude, the body being rather strongly curved. — Prof. Poulton also 

 read notes on Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter's observation of the epigamic 

 use of its anal brushes by the male Amauris psyttalea, and also Dr. 

 Carpenter's further observations on the Driver Ant, Dorylus nigricans. 

 — The following paper was read : " Further Observations on the 



