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June 6th, 1900. 

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



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. Hedworth Foulkes, B.Sc, of The College, Reading; 

 and the Rev. H. C. Lang, M.D., of All Saints' Vicarage, 

 Southend-on-Sea, wei-e elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. G. H. Verrall exhibited a species of the genus Ceratitis, 

 MacLeay, apparently identical with Bigot's C. pejiicillatus 

 from the Gold Coast (W. Africa). Mr. Claude Fuller, 

 State Entomologist for the Department of Agriculture, Natal, 

 writes of this as " one of our greatest local pests which is 

 responsible for the destruction of tons of fruit ; the larvae 

 infest apples, apricots, peaches, plums, oranges, mangos, 

 guavas, and I have reared them from the berries of Solanurn 

 giganteum." Mr. Verrall also exhibited a very handsome 

 Trypetid reared from the fruit of Mimusops caffra by Mr. 

 Fuller at Durban. 



Mr. C. 0. Watebhouse exhibited specimens of a Hemipteron, 

 Aspongoptis nepalensis, received from Capt. Gorman, I. M.S., who 

 states that they are found under stones in the dry river-beds of 

 Assam. They are much sought after by the natives, who use 

 them for food pounded up and mixed with rice. 



Mr. Merrifield exhibited a number of pupte of AjJoria 

 erativgi, and called atteiition to the want of coi'respondence 

 between the markings on the pupal and those on the imaginal 

 wing. On the latter, as is well known, there are no spots, only 

 darkened nervures, the darkness spreading out a little on the 

 outer margin, but on the former there are black spots, some of 

 them forming an oblique black I'ow across the wing, a series of 

 black marginal spots and no darkened nervures ; and, when the 

 imago is about to emei'ge, so that its markings show through 

 the transparent pupal wing, it is seen that its nervures run 

 between the black marginal spots on the pupal wing, which 

 in no way correspond with the broadening out of the marginal 

 terminations of the dark nervures on the imaginal wings. 



PROC. ENT. see. LOND. II., 1900. B 



