THE 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
LONDON 
For THE YEAR 1898. 
February 2nd, 1898. 
Mr. G. H. Verraty, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Election of Fellows. 
Mr. L. C. Coawner, of Forest Bank, Lyndhurst; Mr. F. A. 
Heron, B.A., of the British Museum (Natural History) ; 
Mr. Henry Stepssine, of The Shawe, Jarvis Brook, Tunbridge 
Wells; and Mr. E. J. Burcess-Sopp, of Saxholme, Hoylake, 
Cheshire, were elected Fellows of the Society. 
Exhibitions, ete. 
A letter was read from the Secretaries of the International 
Congress of Zoology, calling attention to the meeting to be 
commenced at Cambridge on August 25rd, and extending to 
the Fellows of the Society the cordial invitation of the 
Executive Committee to be present. 
The Secretary also read a letter from Mr. A. D. Michael, 
F.L.S., of 9, Cadogan Mansions, 8.W., asking if any ento- 
mologists, who might find insects attacked by mites (Acar?) 
among their disused boxes, would be willing to send him 
such insects, with the mites still on them or accompanying 
PROC. ENT. SOC., LOND. I., 1898. A 
