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The President announced that he had appointed Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, Mr. E. Ernest Gi'een, and Dr. G. B. Longstaff to act as Vice- 

 Presidents for the current session. — -Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited some 

 Rurahds from Southern Europe, including specimens from Digne, Le 

 Vernet, and La Granja — Mr. E. E. Green, specimens of the giant 

 glow-worm of Ceylon {Lamprophorus tcnchrosus), and its male— a 

 large firefly. — Dr. H. Eltringham, an instrument made to his in- 

 structions by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company for 

 cutting paraffin blocks perfectly square preparatory to placing them 

 on the microtome. — Mr. Lupton communicated notes on the life- 

 history of Agrotis lucernca at Torquay. — Prof. Poulton exhibited 

 specimens of the AustraHan Buprestid " fire-beetle," Merimna 

 atrata, Lap. & Gory, and read notes ; also the Australian 

 Buprestid beetles Stigmodcra conspicillata, White, and S. cyaimra, 

 Hope, and proved them to be female and male of the same 

 species — S- coyispicillata. Prof. Poulton said that he had recently 

 received notes upon the habits of the African ant Megaponera 

 foatens, F,, and its raids upon termites, from three different ob- 

 servers. — Mr. Talbot exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, a 

 number of new forms of Lepidoptera from Biak, the largest of the 

 Schouten Islands to the north of New Guinea. — The Hon. Walter 

 Kothschild, F.R.S., exhibited a series of the four geographical races 

 of Cocytia durvillei, Boisd., and Eucocytia meeki, Rothsch. & Jord. 

 — The following paper was read : " New Butterflies and a Moth 

 from Biak," by J. J. Joicey, F.L.S., F.E.S., and A. Noakes, F.E.S. 



Wednesday, March Srd, 1915.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — Prof. Wm. Blaxlaud Benham, 

 M.A., D.Sc, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. — Mr. P. A. Buxton exhibited a short series of 

 Brenthis pales and B. arsilache from Lesjevoerk and Surendal, Central 

 Norway, the former having been taken at an altitude of 3000 ft. to 

 4000 ft., the latter from 1000 ft. to 3000 ft.— Dr. Cockayne, (1) 

 Gynandromorphous Agriades coridon, from Royston. August, 1914. 

 (2) Gynandromorphous hybrid harrisoni {Ithysia zonaria male x 

 Lycia hirtaria female), bred in April, 1912, by Mr. Worsley-Wood. — 

 Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, a series of E. davione from Mt. Etna, comment- 

 ing on their lack of variation. Also a series of E. cardamincs var. 

 turritis, remarking on their small size. — Comm. Walker, on behalf 

 of Mr. Adams, (a) A magnificent series of varieties of Polygonia 

 c-album, including several strongly suffused examples, from the 

 Forest of Dean, (b) Two specimens of Araschnia levana, gen. ^st. 

 prorsa, from the same locality, taken in 1914. (c) A gynandro- 

 morphous Urbicola comma, right side female, left side male, from 

 Box Hill. (d) A very fine melanic aberration of Dryas paphia 

 female, from S. Wales. — Mr. F. W. Edwards, two species of apterous 

 Diptera, one belonging to the Borhoridce, the other to the Ephydridce, 

 both collected in the Falkland Islands by Dr. Malcolm Cameron, 

 Fleet Surgeon of H.M.S. ' Cornwall,' on December 7, the day before 

 the naval battle. Both appeared to be new to science, and probably 

 represented new genera. — Mr. L. W. Newman, a living pupa of 

 Pyramcis atalanta, and read notes on the copulation of P. atalanta 



