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Wied., which show a striking resemblance when on the wing to the 
large and powerfully armed Scoliid wasps so common throughout 
Ceylon; a red spider found on a “bilimbi” tree (Averrhoa bilimbr) ; 
some newly-hatched Mantids closely resembling, both in colour, size, 
and the quick jerky movements, the common leaf-nesting ant, 
Oecophylla smaragdina; examples of a small Pyralid moth, Syngamia 
floridalis, when flying exactly like a Coccinnellid beetle; and a yellow- 
spotted Reduviid bug, Acanthaspis quinquespinosa, Fabr., an interest- 
ing case of warning coloration common to various Carabid beetles 
found in the same locality and situations (under logs, &c.). 
Wednesday, June 2nd, 1909.— Dr. F, A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., 
President, in the chair. Mr. Frank Price Jepson, of Pembroke 
College, Cambridge and Thanet Lodge, Bromley, Kent; Mr. Ernest 
Charles Chubb, of the Rhodesia Museum, Buluwayo, South Africa ; 
Mr, John F', Musham, of 53, Brook Street, Selby, Yorkshire; and Mr. 
Oscar Cecil Silverlock, of ‘ Allington,” Burbage Road, Herne Hill, §.E., 
were elected Fellows of the Society.—Mr. Selwyn Image exhibited an 
example of the North American sawfly, Sirex caudatus, Cresson, 
bred from a larva found at Highbury in a piece of wood, together 
with photographs of the larva and its galleries by Mr. Hugh Main.— 
The Rey. G. Wheeler brought for exhibition a series of Anthocharis 
tages var. bellezina from Aix-en-Provence taken this year, and of 
A. belia from the South of France for comparison; also a series of 
Lycena corydon with dark under sides—the typical form in the south. 
—Lord Walsingham showed two set examples and pupal cases of 
Holocacista riviller, Stn., called by the late Mr. Stainton ‘ The lost 
Pleiad,” because originally described in 1750 and not again found 
before 1870, mining leaves of the grape-vine.—Dr. T. A. Chapman 
exhibited specimens of Callophrys avis, a new species from the South 
of France, first taken by him at Hyéres three years ago, and in the 
following year, and now obtained by him this year from the Pyrénées- 
Orientales; and two examples of Pararge egeria from Southern 
France, with a typical Southern specimen (@geria) and an English 
one (@gerides), for comparison, the French form being as far from 
@gerva in one direction as @gerides is in the opposite, and possibly a 
Mendelian variety.— Dr. T. P. Lucas, who was present as a visitor, 
brought for exhibition a box containing thirty-one species of butterflies 
taken by him in the neighbourhood of Durban in two hours. He 
also gave a short account of the abundance of Lepidoptera at Bris- 
bane, Queensland.—Mr. EH. C. Bedwell exhibited examples of the 
myrmecophilous beetle, Heterius ferrugineus, Ol., from Boxhill, a 
species not recorded from Britain for forty-six years.-—Mr. H. St. J. 
Donisthorpe, specimens of Formica exsecta (one female and two herma- 
phrodites) from Aviemore, pointing out that it had never been recorded 
from Scotland or the North before; specimens of Formica rufa-pratensis 
(two females and two hermaphrodites), pseudogynes and micrergates, 
from Nethey Bridge, Inverness-shire, remarking that this was the 
dominant form there-—Mr. L. Doncaster, a drawer of Abraxas 
grossulariata and its var. lacticolor, illustrating breeding experiments, 
which showed that lacticolor is a Mendelian recessive to grossulariata, 
and that the sex-determinants also behave as Mendelian characters, 
femaleness being dominant; and that males are homozygous (pure) 
