20 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — November 15t]i, 1905. — Mr. F. 

 Merrifield, President, iu the chair. — The decease was announced of 

 Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury 

 Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. — Mr. W. R. Dewar, Government 

 Entomologist, Orange River Colony ; Mr. William George Sheldon, of 

 Youlgreave, South Croydon ; and Mr. Francis C. Woodbridge, of 

 Northcroft, Cornwall Road, Uxbridge, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Mr. Arrow exhibited a flower-frequenting beetle from the 

 Transvaal, illustrating a remarkable device for the cross-fertilization 

 of flowers, one of the front feet being tightly clasped by the curiously 

 formed pollinia of an Asclepias. He remarked that he had seen no 

 similar instance amongst Coleoptera. — Mr, W. J. Kaye showed a 

 remarkable specimen of Agrotis tritici, bearing a close resemblance to 

 A. agathina. It had been taken this year at Oxshott, flying over 

 heather in company with ai/atJima, and was a good example of 

 syncryptic resemblance brought about by the common habit of resting 

 on heather. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a specimen of Forficula 

 auricidaria, taken by Mr. R. A. R. Prislie at Deal iu September, 1905, 

 having the left cercus normal, while the right was that of var. 

 forcipata. — Dr. F. A. Dixey showed forms of South African Pierine 

 butterflies, taken by him in Natal and Rhodesia during the dry period 

 of the present year, together with specimens of the same species for 

 comparison, taken m the same localities during the rains. He remarked 

 that the exhibit illustrated the fact, now widely recognized, that these 

 forms varied in general correspondence with the meteorological con- 

 ditions prevailing at the different seasons. — Mr. Edward Harris 

 exhibited a long series of Hemerophila abniptaria, bred through two 

 seasons by him, sliowing the proportion of resultant melanic and 

 light forms from combinations of the several parents, light and dark. — 

 Mr. Selwyn Image exhibited a male specimen of Tortrix pronubana, 

 taken by Mr. Harold Cooper at Eastbourne this autumn, and sent 

 to him on October 12th. The insect, which is about the size of 

 T. bergmanniana, is new to the British list, but an additional 

 capture from the Worthing district has been reported this year. — 

 Commander J. J. Walker communicated a paper, entitled, " Hymeno- 

 ptera-Aculeata, collected in Algeria by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, M.A., 

 and the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A. ; Part ii., Diploptera," by Edward 

 Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



December 6th. — The President in the Chair. — Dr. 0. M. Renter, of 

 Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland, was elected an Honorary Fellow 

 of the Society. — Mr. Charles William Mally, M.Sc, Associate of the 

 Society of Economic Entomology of Washington, U.S.A., Govern- 

 ment Entomologist for the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony; and! 

 Mr. Harold Powell, of Rue Mireille, Hyeres, France, were electedl 

 Fellows of the Society. — Dr. K. Jordan exhibited a series of varieties! 

 of the Mediterranean Carabiis morbillosns, showing all intergradationsd 

 from the ordinary morbillosus with broad proihorax and costate and 

 catenulate elytra to the Moroccan aximonti, which has a narrow thorax 

 and smooth elytra. It is one of the most striking cases of geographical l 

 variability. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe showed specimens of Ptinusi 



