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and sixty odd miles, much of which was literally, “ up hill and down 
dale,” admirably; hardly a pin or brace was loose. Of course I had 
some “packing,” consisting of some of my clothes outside the 
“ drying-house” to lessen the jolting. I should like to add that 1 
am desiring a companion for a three months’ collecting trip to the 
West Indies, starting in May.—WauterR DAnnNArtt, F.Z.8., &c¢. ; 
Donnington, Blackheath, 8.E. 
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Enromonoaican Society or Lonpon.— Wednesday, February 3rd, 
1909.—Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair.—The 
President announced that he had nominated Dr. Karl Jordan, Ph.D., 
Dr. George Blundell Longstaff, M.A., M.D., and Mr. Charles Owen 
Waterhouse, Vice-Presidents for the Session 1909-10.—Mr. Leopold 
Arnon Vidler, of the Camelite Stone House, Rye, was elected a 
Fellow of the Society —The President announced the resignation of 
Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Se., F.R.S., as a member of the 
Council, and the election of Professor Thomas Hudson Beare, I'.R.S.., 
to serve in his place. — Dr. K. Jordan exhibited some Oriental 
Papilios illustrating polymorphism, and demonstrated that in P. clytia 
and P. dissimilis we have to do with one dimorphic species ; and that 
P. paradoxa and P. caunus also are forms of one species only.—Mr. 
O. E. Janson showed a cockroach and a beetle from the Celebes, 
exhibiting a remarkable case of mimicry; the former apparently an 
undescribed species of Prasoplecta, the latter identified as Colo- 
phora formosa, Crotch_—Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis sent for exhibition 
two specimens, a male and female of Agrotis vestigialis, Rott., from 
Purbeck, Dorset. When working the sandhills he noticed the dead 
female apparently sitting on the grass, and then noticed that she had 
a part of the male appendages attached to her. He then found the 
male, which a common earwig was busily engaged in devouring. 
The earwig, he thought, had attacked the pair 7m cop., but he had 
never noticed a similar case before. Dr. T. A. Chapman felt it 
impossible to accept the conclusion arrived at by the exhibitor with 
regard to the earwig. An earwig would probably not attack a living 
Agrotis ; if it did the Agrotis would undoubtedly repel it successfully. 
He suggested that some accident had happened to the moths, 
whether from some bird or beast there was no evidence to show.— 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Acridiwm peregrinum 
from a swarm estimated to number 107,520,000, that visited Las 
Palmas, Grand Canary, in October, 1908; also a dragonfly, Z’ramea 
basilaris, a species which had occurred in such numbers on one 
occasion in Portuguese Congo that the natives mistook them for a 
swarm of locusts.—The Rev. F. D. Morice showed photo-micrographs 
of the “saws” in ten British sawflies-—species of the genus Dolerus. 
After briefly alluding to the specific characters presented by them, to 
certain points in which all alike differed from the ordinary tenon- 
saws employed by carpenters, he invited suggestions which might 
account for these differences. Might it be inferred, he asked, that 
