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in respect of sex, females heterozygous.—Mr. J. R. Tomlin, examples 
of Micropeplus celatus, Kr., taken on marshy ground last April, near 
Cloghane, Co. Kerry, by Dr. Norman Joy and himself, an interesting 
addition to a small genus, so far reported only from Germany and 
Sweden.—Dr. G. B. Longstaff, a number of specimens of Coccinella 
11-punctata, L., from the White Nile, taken during a migratory flight 
which lasted from 4.50 p.m. till nearly 6 p.m.; also a Scarabeus taken 
by him on the edge of the desert, within half a mile of the Sphinx, 
belonging to the Arabian species S. compressicornis.—Prof, H. 8, 
Poulton, F.R.S., made the following exhibits :—(a) a beautifully carved 
scarab of about the sixth century B.c., from Upper Egypt, apparently 
copied from Scarabeus sacer; (b) species of two different genera of 
Coccinellide taken in cop. at Tubney, Berks; (c) a collection of 
Diptera from Oxford and the New Forest, ‘with observations and 
captured by Mr. A. H. Hamm; (d) an example of the rare Castniid 
moth, Castnia therapon, Kollar (a Brazilian species) taken flying in 
his conservatory at Broadstone, Dorset, by Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S. ; 
(e) a series of forty-nine females and seven males of Hypolimnas 
misippus from British East Africa, to illustrate the heridarity ten- 
dencies of the female forms; (f) examples of Millerian mimicry in 
Hupleine; (g) and a collection of small moths captured at sea, one 
hundred and ninety miles from, and south-east of, the Cochin China 
coast, sent to him with a short note by Mr. F. Muir and My. J. C. 
Kershaw, Fellows of the Society. Prof. Poulton then made some 
observations on the use of the saw of the sawfly during oviposition, 
supplementary to the discussion on the subject at a previous meeting, 
and also communicated ‘ Notes on the Life-History of Awlacodes 
simplicialis, Snell,” by Mr. Muir and Mr. Kershaw.—Mr. T. Bainbrigge 
Fletcher exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera common to the African, 
Indian and Australian regions, some of them occurring in America 
also, and remarked that it was incredible that, being extremely 
variable, they should retain their specific facies over the wide area of 
distribution in the absence of some fairly constant syngamic connec- 
tion. He also showed a collection from Ceylon of black ants and 
their mimics; a mass of the Cingalese bug, Dysderus cingulatus, 
resembling a flower; and an example of the Coprid beetle, Scarabeus 
gangeticus taken on the wing carrying small winged Diptera of the 
Borboride. He suggested that the flies were rather passengers in 
search of their pabulum than parasites—Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, 
F:L.8., communicated a paper ‘‘On some new and little-known Neo- 
tropical Lycenide.’’— Mr. Claude Morley, F.Z.S., communicated 
‘“A Description of the Superior Wing of the Hymenoptera, with 
a view to give a simple and more certain Nomenclature to the Alary 
System of Jurine.”—Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe, F.Z.8., read a 
paper “On the Colonization of New Nests of Ants by Myrmeco- 
philous Coleoptera.’”—Mr. F. Enock, F.L.S., read a paper on ‘“‘ New 
Genera of British Mymaride (Haliday).” — H. Rownanp-Browy, 
M.A., Hon. Secretary. 
THe Souta Lonpon ENntTomMoLoGicAL AND Naturat History 
Socirety.—May 13th, 1909.—Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the 
chair.—Mr. F'. Coulsden, of Stoke Newington, was elected a member. 
