46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Balance-sheet, which showed a substantial and increased balance at 

 the bank. On the motion of Mr. Webster, it was resolved to print and 

 circulate the Reports in the Proceedings of the Society. — On the motion 

 of Mr. Tait, seconded by Dr. Edwards, and supported by Messrs. 

 Webster, Stott, Cotton, and the Chairman, a vote of thanks was 

 accorded the retiring Secretary, Mr. Sopp, for his services to the 

 Society during the four years he had held office. It was further 

 resolved that the motion be specially recorded in the Transactions of 

 the Society. — The Annual Address, by Mr. Horace St. J. K. Donis- 

 thorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S., Vice-President, was then communicated. In 

 opening, tlie lecturer first dealt with the eighteen species of beetles 

 that had been added to the British list during 1905, and afterwards 

 summarized the more noteworthy papers that had appeared in current 

 entomological literature during the year. Later, in discussing the 

 science of entomology, he exhorted members to undertake original 

 research, and to collect with some special object in view. There were 

 the theories of mimicry and protective resemblance ; the courtship of 

 insects ; the uses of the scents they bear, attractive and repellant ; and 

 other equally interesting problems for solution. In many cases he 

 deprecated a protracted waiting for further evidence before venturing 

 to theorize, and insisted on the faculty of imagination, rightly used, 

 being as essential to a scientist as to a literary man, as instanced in 

 Darwin, and referred to the mass of material already accumulated in 

 the museums of the country. The lecturer then passed to a con- 

 sideration of our indigenous myrmecophilous Coleoptera, a subject 

 with which his name is inseparably associated. — On the motion of the 

 Chairman, a very cordial vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Donisthorpe, 

 whose paper it was resolved to print in full in the Proceedings of the 

 Society. — The following officers were elected to serve during 1906 : — 

 President : Samuel J. Capper, Esq., F.E.S. Vice-Presidents : Pro- 

 fessor T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, F.E.S., F.R.S.E. ; Richard Wilding ; 

 J. H. Bailey, M.B., Ch.B. ; E. J. B. Sopp, F.R.Met.S., F.E.S. ; 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. ; and J. R. Charnley, 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. Hon. Treasurer: J. Cotton, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 

 L.S.A. Hon. Secretaries: H. R. Sweeting, M.A. ; W. Mansbridge, 

 F.E.S.; and W. Delamere Harrison. Hon. Editor : J. R. le B. Tomlin, 

 M.A., F.E.S. Hon. Librarian: F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. Council: 

 H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S.; A. Tippins ; W. A. Tyer- 

 man; B. H. Crabtree, F.E.S.; J. Kidson Taylor; J. F. Dutton ; 

 W. Webster, M.R.S.A.I. ; F. R. Dixon-Nuttall, F.R.M.S. ; Rev. 

 T. B. Eddrup, M.A. ; C. E. Stott; R. Tait, Jun. ; and P. Edwards, 

 M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A. — The following were reappointed re- 

 corders : — Coleoptera, J. R. le B. Tomlin ; Hymenoptera, Edward 

 Saunders, F.R.S. ,F.L.S., F.E.S.; Lepidoptera, F.N.Pierce; Diptera, 

 C. R. Biliups, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., and E. E. Lowe, F.L.S. ; 

 Neuroptera, W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. ; Orthoptera, E. J. B. Sopp ; 

 and Hemiptera, Oscar Whittaker. — Exhibits were shown as follows : — 

 British Lepidoptera, by Mr. R. Tait, Jun. Tlu-ee cases of West African 

 Lepidoptera, captured on the Gold Coast during May, 1905, by Mr. 

 W. A. Tyerman. S. carpini as a weasel — a case of mimicry — by Dr. 

 P. Tiune ; the moth rests ou heather, with head downwards, and 

 antennae loosely folded to suggest whiskers : the resemblance probably 



