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in October, and the hybernating of the species in the pupal stage. — 

 Prof. Poulton, a portion of a large family of Acrcea encedon, L., bred 

 at Durban from a known female parent by Mr. E. E. Piatt. Prof. 

 Poulton described the hybernation of vast numbers of Musca corvina 

 in the cistern-loft of St. Helen's Cottage, St. Helen's, Isle of Wight. — 

 The following paper was read as a basis for a discussion on mimicry : 

 " The Mimetic Theory—' A Crucial Test,' " by Colonel N. Manders, 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. A most important reply was made by Mr. C. F. M. 

 Swynnerton, which he has embodied in the following paper : " A 

 Brief Preliminary Statement of a few of the Kesults of Five Years' 

 Special Testing of the Theories of Mimicry." Several Fellows took 

 part in the discussion. 



Wed7iesday, March 17th, 1915.— The Hon. N. C. Eothschild, 

 M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in tlie chair.— Prof. Poulton, a female 

 Asilid, Promachus sp., captured with its prey, a male Delias des- 

 combesi, Boisd., August 18th, 1914, at Takdah (5000 ft.), Sikkim, by 

 Major T. D. Broughton. Prof. Poulton, the specimen of the African 

 Hesperid butterfly Plcctzia cerymica, Hew., referred to in the follow- 

 ing note written December 26th, 1914, by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter, 

 from Kakindu, about thirty miles west of the Victoria Nyanza and 

 500 ft. above it: "I send you a skipper of much interest. It came 

 to light one night [December 23rd] about 9 p.m., and behaved much 

 like a moth ; the large wliite patch on the antenna was extremely 

 conspicuous and really glistened in the light, almost as if it were 

 phosphorescent." Prof. Poulton said that the species was usually 

 diurnal. — Comm. J. J. Walker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. F. C. 

 Woodforde, bred specimens of Zonosoma peiidularia, L., var. sicb- 

 roseata, Woodforde, and var. sicbochreata, Woodforde, with the type- 

 form of the species for comparison. — Mr. W. C. Crawley, drawings 

 in various species of ants of two kinds of organs in the funiculi of 

 antennge. They are often, if not always, in the living insects filled 

 with air, and may possibly be connected with the sense of hearing. 

 He also exhibited several drawings of the genital armatures of male 

 ants. — Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, two teratological specimens of 

 Coleoptera, viz. a male specimen of Garabits nemoralis, Mull., and a 

 specimen of the dark variety of Caynpylus linearis, L. — Mr. Champion 

 exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. West, of Greenwich, specimens of 

 Bruchus chinensts, L. {pectinicornis, L.j, found in lentils in a London 

 warehouse, also a male found at large at Dartford. — Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 made a communication on the nuptial flight of butterflies. 



Wednesday, April 1th, 1915.— Dr. G. B. Longstaff, M.A., M.D., 

 Vice-President, in the chair. — Ac the unanimous request of the 

 Council, the Chairman proposed that a letter should be written to 

 the President, on behalf of the Society, offering condolences on the 

 sudden death of his father, the late Lord Eothschild. The reso- 

 lution was unanimously passed, the whole meeting rising in their 

 places. — Mr. William Carr, B.Sc, Station Eoad, Bentham, Lan- 

 caster, and Dr. A. Eland Shaw, Samarai, British New Guinea, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. — The Eev. G. Wheeler exhibited a 

 box of Algerian butterflies, of species treated of by Mons. Ch. 

 Oberthiir in the recently published Fascicule X. of his ' Lepidoptero- 



