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Election of Felloivs. 

 Islv. F. M. Littler, Althome, High Street, Launceston, 

 Tasmania; Mr. H. Swale, M.B., Arawa House, Rotorua, 

 New Zealand ; Col. Jesse Griggs Pilcher, I.M.S., F.E.C.S., 

 133 Gloucester Road, Kensington, S.W. ; Mr. S. A. Neave, 

 B.A., Magdiilea College, Oxford; and Mr. C. A. Wiggins, 

 Ivisuraa, Lake Victoria Nyanza, British East African Pro- 

 tectorate, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited on behalf of Professor 

 Hudson Beare some specimens of a Niplus new to the British 

 list, captured at Messrs. Horsnaith and Reynolds' granary, 

 Strood, on May 1 1th, 1901. The specimens were found crawling 

 about on empty sacks inside the building, and were probably 

 numerous ; the insect being mistaken for another, only a few 

 were taken. 



Mr. C. O. Wateriiouse exhibited on behalf of Mr. 

 Charles Pool specimens of a beetle of the genus JViptus 

 closely resembling JV. crenatus, but with distinct shoulders, 

 and more parallel elytra which also are less strongly striated. 

 They were found in large numbers in a corn-chandler's at 

 Edmonton. The insect had no doubt been introduced, but 

 whence it was impossible to say. It was new to the Museum 

 collection, and Mr. Waterhouse had not been able to find 

 it described. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Apha- 

 nisticus emarginatus, a beetle new to the British list, from 

 Parkhurst Forest, where it occurred plentifully this year, and 

 a Scymnus new to science, from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. 



Mr. M. Burr exhibited a living adult male earwig, Lahidura 

 riparia, Pall., captured near Boscombe at the end of August 

 1903. He said that the very noticeable pale coloration be- 

 comes darker after death, sometimes nearly black, which 

 might account for some of the numerous "colour-varieties." 

 He had observed that the insect used its forceps with great 

 agility to seize a very active bluebottle which was placed with 

 it. It greedily devours flies, leaving the chitinous shell and 

 horny parts sucked dry. 



