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nipple-like, erectile, sac- shaped meso-pleural type of appendage seen in 

 P. fusi-a ; while Pcriroma palusitris, mutna and the nameless species 

 from the Schwarzwald, together with P. cognata, which was not 

 exhibited, have the tentacular type of meso-pleural appendage seen 

 in P. auriculata. Mr. H. St. J. Douisthorpe read a paper entitled 

 " The Life-history of Ch/thra qiiadnpiinctata," and Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy 

 communicated "A Memoir upon the Rhynchotal Family Capsidce." — 

 H, Rowland Brown, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



Jan.. 15th, 69th Annual Meeting. — The Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., 

 F.L.S., President, in the chair. — After an abstract of the Treasurer's 

 accounts, showing a large balance in the Society's favour, had been read 

 by Colonel Yerbury, R.A., one of the Auditors, Mr. H. Goss, one of the 

 Secretaries, read the Report of the Council. It was then announced 

 that the following had been elected Officers and Council for the 

 Session 1902-1903 :— President, the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; 

 Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert 

 Goss, F.L.S. , and Mr. Henry Rowland-Brown, M.A. ; Librarian, Mr. 

 George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of Council, Mr. 

 R. Adkiu, Professor T. Hudson Beare, F.R.S.E. ; Mr. Arthur J. 

 Chitty, M.A. ; Mr. W. L. Distant, Mr. F. DuCane Godman, D.C.L. ; 

 F.R.S. ; the Rev. Francis D. Morice, M.A. ; Professor E. B. Poulton, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S.; Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S.; Dr. David Sharp, 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; and Colonel C. Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S. The President 

 announced that he should appoint Dr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. ; aud Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., as Vice- 

 Presidents for the Session 1902-1903. The President referred to the 

 losses the Society had sustained during the past Session by the deaths 

 of Mr. C. E. Collins; the Rev. Professor William P. Dickson, D.D. ; 

 Dr. H. W. Livett, M.D. ; Mr. Lionel de Niceville, F.L.S. ; Miss 

 Eleanor Ormerod, LL.D.; and Mr. H. Vivian, M.A. He then 

 delivered an Address, in which he dwelt chiefly with the question of 

 protective resemblance and mimicry in the case of the Coleoptera. At 

 the conclusion of the Address a vote of thanks to the President was 

 proposed by Professor Poulton, seconded by Professor Meldola, and 

 carried. A vote of thanks to the other officers was tben proposed by 

 Colonel Swinhoe, seconded by Mr. Distant, and carried. Canon 

 Fowler, Mr. Goss, and Mr. Rowland-Brown replied, and the pro- 

 ceedings terminated. — H. Goss and H. Rowland-Brown, Hoyi. Sees, 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Nocember 28th, 1901.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A.,F.E.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. The evening was set apart for a special exhibition of 

 varieties and notable captures. A considerable number of members 

 and friends attended, and a large number of specimens were exhibited. 

 — Mr. Carpenter exhibited a long and fine bred series of ( 'alias hyale, 

 from ova laid by a female from Sheerness, taken Aug. 18th, 1900. — 

 Mr. Lucas, male and female of the rare British dragonfly Libel lulafulva, 

 taken near Bournemouth by Major Robertson ; male Oxygastra curtisii 

 from the same district ; and male, female, and female var. aurantiaca 

 of Ischnura elegans, from the New Forest. He also showed two large 

 and perfect bubble-shells, Haminea hydatis, from South Devon, with a 

 curious thickened and eroded specimen of Anodonta anatina, from the 



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