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March 7th, 1900. 

 Mr. G. H. Yereall, President, in the Chair. 



Election of Secretary. 

 Mr. H. Eowland-Broayn, M.A., was elected into the Council 

 and as joint-Secretary in the place of Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., 

 who had resigned. 



Election of Felloios. 



Prof. Christopher Aurivillius, of Stockholm ; and Prof. 

 Frederick Moritz Brauer, of Vienna, were elected Honorary 

 Fellows : and Mr. W. D. Drury, of Rocquaine, West Hill Park, 

 Woking ; the Rev. W. Westropp Flemyng, of Coolfin, Portlaw, 

 Waterford; and Prof. Percy Groom, M.A , F.L.S., of the 

 Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, wex^e elected 

 ordinary Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a series of varieties of Spilosoma 

 dorsalis from South Africa, showing variation in some degree 

 parallel with that of >S. luhricipeda in Great Britain. 



Mr. G. W. KiRKALDY exhibited several Rhynchota of 

 economic interest, from the United States, Ceylon, and 

 British Central Africa, among them being the new jEyaleus 

 bechuana, Kirk., from Africa, which attacks coffee, and Parla- 

 toria victrix, Ckll., from Phoenix, Arizona, found on date palms. 

 The last-named Coccid was originally introduced from Egypt, 

 and all attempts at eradication had hitherto failed. He also 

 showed a series of thirteen colour-varieties of the oriental 

 Scutellerine Cantao ocellatua (Thunb.), and examples of 

 Distantidea vedda (a new genus and species of Lybantin^) 

 from Ceylon, in which the rostrum was very long, extending 

 as far as to the apex of the abdomen. 



Paj^ers. 

 Papers were communicated by Mr. W. L. Distant on 

 " Undescribed genera and species belonging to the Rhynchotal 

 family Pentatomidee,," and by Mr. G. J. Arrow " On Pleurostict 

 Lamellicorns from Grenada and St. Vincent (West Indies)." 

 Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper on " Sti'idulating organs in 

 Coleoptera," in which he remarked that one of the best 

 accounts of them was to be found in " The Descent of Man," 



