THE 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



For the Year 1900. 



February 7th, 1900. 



Mr. George H. Verrall, President, in the Chair. 



Nomination of Vice-Presidents. 



The President announced that he had appointed Dr. Thojias 

 A. Chapman, F.Z.S., Mi\ William L. Distant, and Mr. 

 Charles 0. Waterhouse as Vice-Presidents for the Session. 



He then announced, with regret, the death of Mr. William 

 Blundell Spence, who had been a Member of the Society 

 since its foundation in 1833, and who was for some years past 

 the only surviving Original Member. 



Election of a Felloiv. 

 Mrs. M. de la B. Nicholl, of Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. O. E. J ANSON exhibited examples of Achias lomjividens, 

 Walk., a remarkable fly from New Guinea, in which the eyes are 

 set at the end of very long stalk-like processes. The specimens 

 showed great variation in the length of the eye-stalks, which 

 in the most fully developed males considerably exceeded the 

 length of the wings. 



Mr. J. W. TuTT exhibited a series of specimens of Epu,nda 

 lutulenta, collected by the Rev. Mr. Burrows, at Mucking in 

 Essex. It included those remarkable variations to which Mr, 

 Tutt had referred in his notes on the species, read at a 

 previous meeting. 



PROC. ent. soc, lond. i., 1900. A 



