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of the colours and pattei'iis of butterflies' Avings. The insects 

 had been photographed on masses of foliage and flowers, and it 

 was obvious that the dark ground-colour harmonized with the 

 dark shadow behind and under the vegetation, while the 

 light markings stood out as conventionalized representations 

 of single flowers and flower-masses. 



The President also exhibited the eyeless imagines and 

 pupa-eases of Ennomos autumnaria, in illustration of his 

 remarks at the meeting on November 18th. Imagines pro- 

 duced by viublinded larvae wei'e also shown for comparison. 



Dr. CHAP.UAN made some remarks on the specimens 

 exhibited by the President. 



Papers. 

 The Rev. Francis D. Morice, M.A., read a Paper entitled 

 *' Illustrations of the male terminal segments and armatures 

 in thirty-five species of the Hymenopterous genus CoUetes." 



ANNUAL MEETING. 

 January 20th, 1904. 



Professor Edward B. Poulton, M. A., D.Sc, F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Robert "Wylie Lloyd, one of the Auditors, read the 

 Abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, showing a balance in the 

 Society's favour of X47 2s. 7d. 



Mr. Herbert Goss, one of the >Secretaries, read the 

 following 



Report of the Council. 



During the Session 1903-1904 five Fellows have died, viz, 

 Mr. Frederick Bates, the Rev. John Hocking Hocking, M.A., 

 the Rev. Thomas A. Marshall, M.A., Mr. Philip Brookes 

 Mason, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., and Mr, John S. Stevens; eight 

 Fellows have resigned ; and twenty-three new Fellows have 

 been elected. 



As was the case last year, the number of Fellows who have 

 died is below the average, as is also the number of those who 

 have resigned ; whilst the number of new Fellows is the same 



