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Wednesday, October 16th, 1918.— Dr. S. A. Neave, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. — Mr. E. E. Green exhibited 

 specimens of a rare Coccid {Kennes quercus) taken on the stem of 

 a single oak, at Selby (Yorkshire). — Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited 

 specimens of Eupithecia helveticata var. arceuthata, Frey, and a 

 living larva from Surrey. — Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a remarkable 

 new form of Heliconius erato for which he proposed the name extrema. 

 It formed a connecting link between H. erato chestertoni and H. erato 

 colombina. — Mr. Hugh Main exhibited as transparencies in the epidia- 

 scope the larval skins of Dytiscus marginalis, which had been handed 

 round at the meeting on October 2nd. 



Wednesday, Novernber Qth, 1918, Special Meeting. — Dr. C. J. Gahan, 

 M. A., D.Sc, President, in the Chair. — The Treasurer formally proposed 

 to delete Clause 5 of Ch. viii, and to substitute — " The Council shall 

 nominate a chartered or incorporated accountant annually, who shall 

 audit the Treasurer's accounts. The Auditor shall be paid for his 

 services a fee, the amount of which shall be agreed by the Council 

 on behalf of the Society. The Treasurer shall furnish the Accountant 

 with all the facilities he may require for auditing the accounts." — 

 The Treasurer having fully explained his reasons for proposing this 

 alteration, it was seconded by Dr. Chapman and carried nem. con. 



Ordinary Meeting. — The Eev. Father O'Neil, S.J., Salisbury, 

 Khodesia ; Messrs. Ernest William Nimmy, 210, Whippendell Eoad, 

 Watford, Herts ; R. Stan way Parris, 6, High Street, Bishop's Stortford ; 

 the Eev. Alfred T. Stiff, Grantham, Victor Drive, Leigh-on-Sea ; 

 Capt. William Henry Tapp, F.E.A.S., F.E.G.S., and Mrs. Eleanor 

 Eva Tapp, of Loos, 88, Wickham Way, Beckenham, Kent ; and the 

 Eev. E. Adrian WoodrufTe-Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S., Cadney Vicarage, 

 Brigg, Lincolnshire, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. Lucas 

 exhibited Orthoptera from Salonica, sent by Mr. P. J. Barraud. — The 

 President exhibited a Chalcid, Toryvms elegans, Borkh., sent to him 

 by the Eev. E. A. WoodruCfe-Peacock, which had emerged from a 

 hawthorn-seed which had passed through the alimentary canal of 

 a blackbird, together with the seed from which it had emerged. — 

 Mr. L. B. Prout, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, exhibited species of 

 the genus Castnia and a mimetic Hesperid. Several of the Castnias 

 were new or doubtful forms not yet fully worked out.— The President 

 made further observations on the " Cuckoo-spit " insect. — The follow- 

 ing paper was read : " Notes on a Large Heliconine Collection made 

 in French Guiana in 1917, Compared with a Similar Collection made 

 in 1915," by J. J. Joicey, F.E.S., and W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. 



Wednesday, November 20th, 1918.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, 

 President, in the Chair. — Mr. Joseph Herrod-Hempsall, Orchard 

 House, Stockingstone Eoad, Eound Green, Luton, Beds, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. — The following list of Fellows nominated 

 by the Council to hold office during the ensuing year was read : 

 President, Comm. James J. Walker, M.A., E.N., F.L.S. ; Treasurer, 

 W. G. Sheldon ; Secretaries, Eev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S., 

 Dr. S. A. Neave, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. ; Librarian, George Charles 

 Champion, F.Z.S., A.L.S, ; other members of Council, E. C. Bedwell, 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Kenneth G. Blair, B.Sc, 

 Malcolm Cameron, M.B., E.N., W. C. Crawley, B.A., J. Hartley 



