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Nomination of Officers and Council for 1904. 



Mr. H. Goss, one of the Secretaries, then announced that 

 the Council had nominated the following Fellows as Officers 

 and members of the Council for 1904, in accordance with the 

 new Bye-laws : — President, Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S. Treasurer, K. McLachlan, F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Secretaries, H. Goss, F.L.S., and H. liowland-Brown, M.A. 

 Librarian, G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. Other Members of the Council, 

 Colonel C. T. Bingham, F.Z.S. , Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., 

 F.Z.S., A. J. Chitty, M.A., J. E. Collin, Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 M.A., M.D., Hamilton C. J. Druce, F.Z.S., W. J. Lucas, B.A., 

 the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, 

 M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Colom^l C. Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., and Colonel J. W. 

 Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. G. C, Champion exhibited numerous specimens of both 

 sexes of Xyleborus dispar, from Moncayo, Spain, taken out of 

 beech-stumps. Canon Fowler said that the late Miss Ormerod, 

 who found this beetle abundantly in orchards at Evesham, had 

 prophesied that it would become a pest. As a matter of fact 

 the insect is now extremely rare, and there appear to be 

 hardly any $ s in the collections of the United Kingdom. 

 Mr. O. E. Jansen said he had found it in pear-trees, 



Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited (1.) on behalf of Mr. H. 

 Britten, of Great Salkeld, Cumberland, a specimen of Tropi- 

 pho7'US tomentosvs, ]\Iarsh., from Great Salkeld, showing the 

 deciduous false mandibles intact; (2.) a $ specimen of Ancho- 

 inenus parM?»^ni7?ctoi«5, F., from the same locality, showing a 

 n:al formation of the middle right tibia which was abnormally 

 thin, and bent in the centre, but thickened at the base ; the 

 right antenna also had the last seven joints flattened and 

 dilated. Mr. Jennings also exhi]>ited on his own behalf 

 Apion sanguineuin, De G., taken at Brandon, Suffolk, in 

 August last, on Rumex. Commenting on (2) the Rev. F. D. 

 MoRiCE remarked that similar malformations occurred in 

 Hymenoptera. The abdomen in the specimen exhibited 

 appeared to be normal, but he had found in hymenopterous 



