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SOCIETIES. 
Entomonoaicat Socrery or Lonpon. — Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 
1908.—Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., Vice-President, in the chair. 
—Dr, Millais Culpin, M.B. (Lond.), F.R.C.S., of the Palace Hotel, 
Shanghai: Mr. E. M. Eustace, of Challacombe Rectory, Parracombe, 
R.S.0., North Devon; Captain F. H. Hardy, R.A.M.C., Medical 
Officer of the British Central Africa Protectorate; Mr. Jens M. A. 
Knudsen, of Noerre Nebel, Denmark; Captain Leonard Paul, of 
Brook House, Eastry, S.0., Kent; and Mr. B. C. S. Warren, of The 
Avenue, Amersham, Bucks, were elected Fellows of the Society.— 
Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited examples of the rare weevil Procas 
armillatus, taken in Sherwood Forest in 1908; and specimens of 
Phyllobius argentatus and P. maculicornis with deciduous mandibles 
attached.—Mr. P. de la Garde sent for exhibition specimens of the 
following new and rare Coleoptera :—Laccobius purpurascens, New- 
bery, recently described as new to science; Ceuthorrhynchus parvu- 
lus; and Phyllotreta diademata, recent additions to the British list ; 
Arena octavii, Sibinia sodalis, Neuraphes longicollis, Cardiophorus 
equisiti, rare and local species; and a species of Choleva, right-hand 
maxillary palpus in triplicate-——Mr. W. S. Sheldon exhibited a speci- 
men of Anthrocera achillee, from Oban, one of those taken by Mr. 
Renton and recently recorded as British, with forms of the species 
from the South of France; and of A. filipendule and A. exulans 
from Scotland, for comparison——Mr. R. M. Prideaux, a gynandro- 
morphous specimen of Lycena zephyrus var. lycidas from the Simp- 
lon, taken in July last; an example of Chrysophanus alevphron var. 
gordius ab. female midas, Lowe, from below Salvan in the Rhone 
Valley; and a striking aberration of Melitea didyma with the spots 
of the lower wings coalescent in thick splashes, captured near Bérisal 
in July, 1905.—Mr. A. Harrison, the resulting series obtained by cross 
pairings of successive broods of Pieris napi var. bryonie. He said 
that as a demonstration of Mendelian proportions they were quite 
negative. So far it would appear that the bryonie characters were 
not transmitted by the male, but in an exaggerated degree by the 
female.—Mr. L. W. Newman read a note on the life-history, and ex- 
hibited examples, of the imago of Polygonia c-album. He said that 
his observations led him to conclude that the first twelve to twenty 
ova laid by the hybernated females are the only ova which produce 
the var. hutchinsoni, and that this variety is the only form which 
pairs and produces the second brood.—Dr. Karl Jordan exhibited 
examples of Charaxes zoolina, and its nearest allies C. betsimiseraka 
and betanimena from Madagascar, zoolina and neanthes from East 
Africa, phanara and ekinket from West Africa, and kahldent and home- 
yert from West Africa. This exhibit confirmed the result of Mr. G. F. 
Leigh’s breeding experiment mentioned by Professor EK. B. Poulton 
at the last meeting.—Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of the genera 
Colaenis, Heliconius and Pereute, to illustrate a mimetic relation 
between C. telesiphe, Hew., H. telesiphe, Doubl., and P. antodyca, 
Boisd.—The Rey. G. Wheeler, a pair of Melitea dictynna var. dictyn- 
-noides Horm., received from Herr Hormuzaki. They are the con- 
verse of M. britomartis, having the upper side of dictynna but the 
under much nearer to parthenie. This form is usually described as a 
