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blance, that Godart had been entirel)' misled by it, and had described 

 the Papilio under the name of zidora as the female of Acraa e<jina. — 

 Mr. E. Saunders, F.E.S., communicated " A Supplementary Note to 

 a Paper entitled ' Hymenoptera Aculeata collected by the Eev. A. E. 

 Eatou, M.A., in Madeira and Tenerife, in the spring of 1902.' " — H. 

 EowLAND- Brown, lion. Sec. 



December 2nd. — The President in the chair. — Mr. F. H. Day, of 

 Carlisle ; the Eev. Thomas Prinsep Levett, of Frenchgate, Eichmond, 

 Yorkshire, and Parkington Hall, Lichfield ; and Mr. Eobert C. L. 

 Perkins, B.A., of Honolulu, were elected Fellows of the Society. — 

 Mr. H. Goss, one of the secretaries, again read the names of the 

 officers and members of the council proposed for election at the 

 General Meeting.— Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited, on behalf of Mr. T. 

 Ashton Lofthouse, a specimen of Xylophasia zoUikoferi, taken at sugar 

 near Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, on Sept. 26th last. He said he be- 

 lieved that this was only the second specimen which had been recorded 

 as having been taken in Britain. Mr. McLachlan, F.E.S., said the 

 strongest evidence existed that a very large immigration of insects 

 from the nearest continental coast took place during the exceptional 

 (for this year) spell of warm and calm weather prevailing towards the 

 end of September, and he was of opinion that the specimen of Xylo- 

 phusia zoUikoferi, taken by Mr. Lofthouse in Yorkshire, formed an 

 item in this migratory swarm. — Mr. Malcolm Burr exhibited, and 

 remarked on, a specimen of Diuarchus dasypus, Illig., belonging to a 

 family of five or six species confined to the Balkans. — The President, 

 a series of photographs sent by Mr. A. H. Thayer to illustrate his 

 views on the significance of the colours and patterns of butterflies' 

 wings. The insects had been photographed on masses of foliage and 

 flowers, and it was obvious that the dark ground colour harmonized 

 with the the dark shadow behind and under the vegetation, while the 

 light markings stood out as unconventionalized representations of single 

 flowers and flower- masses. Also the eyeless imagines and pupa cases 

 of Ennonios autumnaria, in illustration of his remarks at the meeting 

 on November 18th. Imagines produced by unblinded larvje were also 

 shown for comparison. Dr. Chapman made some remarks on the 

 specimens exhibited by the President. — The Eev. Francis D. Morice, 

 M.A., read a paper entitled, "Illustrations of the Male Terminal Seg- 

 ments and Armatures in Thirty-five Species of the Hymenopterous 

 genus Colletes." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



The 70th Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 Jan. 20th, 1904, the President in the chair. — After an abstract of 

 the Treasurer's accounts, showing a large balance in the Society's 

 favour, had been read by Mr. E. W. Lloyd (one of the Auditors), Mr. 

 Herbert Goss (one of the Secretaries) read the Eeport of the Council. 

 It was then announced that the following had been elected Officers 

 and Council for the Session 1904-1905 : — President, Professor Edward 

 B. Poulton, D.Sc. F.K.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Eobert McLachlan, F.E.S.; 

 Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and Mr. Henry Eowland-Brown, 

 M.A. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other 

 members of Council, Lieut. -Colonel Charles Bingham, F.Z.S. , Dr. 

 Thomas A. Chapman, F.Z.S., Mr. Arthur John Chitty, M.A., Mr. 

 James Edward Collin, Dr. Frederick A. Dixey, M.A., Mr. Hamilton 



