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President, in the chair. — The death of Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a member 

 of the Council, and for five years a most valued member of the 

 Business Committee was announced. — Mr. E. A. Butler exhibited 

 two species of S. Indian Hemiptera received from Mr. T. V. 

 Campbell, M.B., who captured them at Chikkaballapura in the 

 Mysore State; viz. Urentnis echinus, Dist., and Apollodotvs 

 'prcefectus, Dist. ; also several recently described species of S. Indian 

 FulgoridcB, together with the ($ of Euryhrachys tomentosa, Fabr., 

 which has only recently been recognised. — Prof. Poulton said that 

 he had recently received interesting notes on mimicry in Oriental 

 butterflies from Colonel Jermyn, who had forwarded with his 

 manuscript the illusti'ative specimens exhibited to the meeting. 

 Prof. Poulton also exhibited a male of Ammophila sabulosa, L., with 

 only two submarginal cells to both fore wings. — The President 

 stated that, at Prof. Poulton's request, he had recently examined 

 the specimen from the Burchell collection (No. 1330), which was 

 shown that evening, and he had no hesitation in saying that it j 

 was either a larva or female of the group Phengodini. The females 

 of this group are completely larvi-form. Both larvae and females 

 may be distinguished from Elaterid larv£e by the fact that the tenth 

 abdominal segment is somewhat conical or tubular in form, and 

 projects beyond the ninth segment so as to be visible from above. — 

 Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited the four new species of CetoniidcB of 

 the genera Clerota, Pseudocalcothea, and Anatona, described in 

 the paper subsequently read, and made some remarks on their 

 characters. — Mr. A. Bacot desired to call attention to a very valuable 

 paper in the Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India 

 (November, 1916, vol. iv. No. 6) dealing with the insects attacking 

 stored wheat in the Punjab, and the methods of combating them, 

 by Barnes and Grove. — Gift of a microscope : The Secretary said 

 that Mr. E. E. Green had offered to the Society a valuable binocular 

 microscope, for which objectives of 2" to ^" were required, and 

 asked whether any Fellow had spare objectives which he would 

 present. — The following papers were read ; " On the new and little- 

 known LagriidcB from S. America," by G. C. Champion, A.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; "Additions to the Knowledge of the Cetoniidee of 

 British India," by 0. E. Janson, F.E.S. ; "The Condition of the 

 Scales in leaden Males of Agriades thetis and other Lycaenids," bv 

 E. A. Cockayne, M.A., M.D., F.E.S.; "Some Notes on Butterfly 

 Migrations in British Guiana," by C. B. WilHams, M.A., F.E.S. 



Wed7iesday, March 21st, 1917.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, 

 President, in the chair. — Messrs. David Hunter, M.A., M.B., The 

 Coppice, Nottingham ; Nicholas J. Kusnezov, The Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences, Petrograd ; and Percy A. H. Muschamp, Charterhouse 

 School, Godalming, Surrey, were elected Fellows of the Society. — 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a supposed hybrid between Callophrys 

 avis and C. r^ihi. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited two specimens of an 

 Elater, from Ireland, not in the British list, taken in Co. Kerry, 

 in June, 1902. — Mr. CoUin said that he had observed that certain 

 Diptera. usually to be seen about sunset were also on the wing about 

 dawn, and inquired whether the same fact had been observed in 

 other Orders. — The President asked whether any Fellow could state 



