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upon his interesting exhibition. He made a. few remai^ks 

 upon the melanic forms of the wet season, but expressed him- 

 self unable at present to understand the full significance of 

 the changes. In conclusion, Professor Poulton asked Dr. F. 

 A. Dixey whether it was likely that the females of Teracolus 

 regina exhibited in one season a synaposematic approach to 

 the females of other and very distinct species of the same 

 genus ; in the other season a similar approach to Pierinee of a 

 remote genus. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey said that he was not at present prepared 

 to give a complete answer to the question put to him by 

 Professor Poulton. The seasonal changes of Teracolus regina, 

 in relation to the sexual dimorphism of that species, were very 

 remarkable and required further investigation. He had, how- 

 ever, no doubt that both in this species and in T. phlegyas the 

 dry-season form of both sexes had a cryptic character, at any 

 rate in the resting position of the insect. He was quite con- 

 vinced of this in the case of the last-named butterfly and of 

 its congener, T. speciosus, from having watched both species 

 under natural conditions. 



Wednesday, November 7th, 1906. 



Mr. F. Meriufield, President, in the chair. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. Gerard H. Gurney, Keswick Hall, ISTorwich ; Mr. 

 Harold Armstrong Fry, P.O. Box 46, Johannesburg, 

 Transvaal Colony ; Mr. Frederick Albert Mitchell- 

 Hedges, 42, Kensington Park Gardens, London, W. ; Mr. 

 Gordon Merriman, Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; Mr. Percy A. 

 H. MuscHAMP, 20, Chemin des Asters, Geneva ; and Mr. 

 OswiN S. WicKAR, Crescent Cottage, Cambridge Place, 

 Colombo, Ceylon, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. H. J. Lucas exhibited a photograph of Panorpa 

 germanica, practically immaculate, taken by Mr. E, A 



