148 THE ENTOMOLOGisT. 
Rev. Canon Fowler made some remarks on the subject of protective resem- 
blance; he said his attention had been recently called to the fact that 
certain species of Kallima apparently lose their protective habit in some 
localities, and sit with their wings open, and that Dr. A. R. Wallace had 
informed him that he had heard of a species of Aallima sitting upside dewn 
on stalks, and thus, in another way, abandoning its protective habits. Mr.’ 
W. L. Distant said that a species of butterfly in South Africa, which when its 
wings were vertically closed resembled the reddish soil on which it settled, in 
the Transvaal rested with open wings on quartzite rock, which the upper 
surtace of the wings protectively resembled. Mr. Barrett, Mr. McLachlan, 
Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Champion, Mr. H. Goss, Canon Fowler, and Mr. Frohawk, » 
continued the discussion. Mr. Goss informed the meeting that, in pursuance 
of a resolution of the Council passed in March last, he and Mr. EKlwes had 
represented the Society at the recent Government enquiry, as to the safety 
and suitability of the proposed Rifle Range in the New Forest, held at 
Lyndhurst by the’ Hon. T. W. H. Pelham, on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 
23rd inst., and that they had given evidence at such enquiry, and addressed 
a large meeting of counsel, solicitors, War-Office officials, Verderers, and 
Commoners. 
May 11th.—Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, in the 
chair. Dr. Edward A. Heath, M.D., F.L.S., of 114, Ebury Street, Pimlico, 
S.W.; and Mr. Samuel Hoyle, of Audley House, Sale, Cheshire, were 
elected Fellows of the Society. The President announced the death, on the 
4th of May, of Dr. Carl August Dohrn, of Stettin, one of the ten Honorary 
Fellows of the Society. Mr. Stainton expressed regret at the death of Dr. 
Dohrn, whom he had known for a great number of years, and commented 
upon his work and personal qualities. Dr. D. Sharp exhibited drawings of 
the eggs of a species of Hemiptera, in illustration of a paper read by him 
before the Society; and also a specimen of a mosquito, Megarhina hemor- 
rhoidalis, from the Amazon district, with the body, legs and palpi furnished 
with scales as in Micro-Lepidoptera. The Rev. Canon Fowler, on behalf 
of Mrs. Venables, of Lincoln, exhibited cocoons of a species of Bombya from 
Chota Nagpur; also the larve-cases of a species of Psychide, Cholia 
cramert, from Poona; and a curious case, apparently of another species 
of Psychide, from the island of Likoma, Lake Nyassa. Mr. McLachlan, 
Mr. Poulton, and Mr. Hampson made some remarks on the subject. Mr. 
FE. W. Frohawk, on behalf of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, exhibited a 
specimen of Pseudacreéa miraculosa mimicking Danais chrysippus ; also a 
specimen of the mimic of the latter, Diadema misippus, and read notes on 
the subject. Mr. C.G. Barrett exhibited, and commented on, a long series 
of specimens of Melitea aurinia (artemis) from Hampshire, Pembrokeshire, 
Cumberland, and other parts of the United Kingdom; also a long and varied 
series of Coremia fluctuata. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. W. Borrer, jun., 
of Hurstpierpoint, a portion of a wasp’s nest which had been built with the 
object of concealing the entrance thereto and protecting the whole nest from 
observation. He also read notes on the subject, which had been communi- 
cated to him by Mr. Borrer. The Hon. Walter Rothschild communicated 
a paper entitled ‘* Notes on a collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Wm. 
Doherty in Southern Celebes during August and September, 1891, Pt. L. 
Rhopalocera.” He also sent for examination the types of the new species 
described therein. Dr. Sharp read a paper entitled ‘On the eggs of an 
Hemipterous Insect of the jamily Redwviide.’—H. Goss & W. W. LowLer, 
Zon. Secs. 
