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lodijteUa, C. Uxella, C. laricella, C. hemerohiella, C. soUtariella, C. pyrrhu- 

 iipennelld, C. co7iijzcb, and 0. alcyonipomella. — Dr. A. Jefferis Turnei', 

 M.D., communicated a paper entitled "A Classification of the Aus- 

 tralian LymantriadcB." — Major Neville Manders, E.A.M.C., com- 

 municated a paper entitled " Some Breeding Experiments on Catopsilia 

 pyranthe, and Notes on the Migration of Butterflies in Ceylon." — 

 The President read a communication from Professor E. A. Minchin, 

 describing the attack made by a bird upon a species of El.yumia^, and 

 a part of a letter recently received from Mr. J. C. Kershaw, one of the 

 Fellows of the Society, living at Macao, throwing light upon the 

 struggle for life maintained by Rhopaloeampta benjamini, a Hesperiid 

 of that locality. A discussion on the bird enemies of Lepidoptera fol- 

 lowed, in which Mr. P. Merrifield, Commander Walker, Mr. M. Burr, 

 and other Fellows joined. 



Wednesday, June Ut. — Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc. M.A., F.K.S., 

 President, in the chair. — Mr. Arthur F. Bayne, Gerencia, Ferro Carril 

 del Sud, Plaza Constitucion, Buenos Ayres ; Dr. Simon Bengtsson, 

 Pn.D., Lecturer at the University of Lund, Sweden; Mr. G. Bertram 

 Kershaw, Ingleside, West Wickham, Kent; Mr. W. A. Nicholson, 

 36, Promenade, Portobello, N.B. ; and the Rev. Thomas John Piobert 

 Armine Slipper, M.A., Tivetshall Rectory, Norwich, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. — After a few sympathetic words by the Presi- 

 dent, who announced the death of Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., 

 Treasurer, and one of the oldest Fellows of the Society, it was 

 unanimously resolved to express, on behalf of the Society, sincere 

 sympathy with the family of the deceased in their bereavement. It 

 was then announced that Mr. Albert Hugh Jones had been elected a 

 member of the Council, and also elected to act as Treasurer in the 

 place of the late gentleman. — Mr. E. B. Green exhibited various insects 

 from Ceylon, including a carpenter bee {Xylocopa fenestrata, Fab.) and 

 a large Asilid fly (Hyperechia a-ylocopiformis, Wlk.), which very closely 

 mimics the bee ; specimens of a Mycetophilid fly and cocoons from 

 which they emerged, showing the beautiful structure, formed of an 

 open network of white anastomosing threads ; and examples of a 

 Tineid moth and the remarkable larval cases. — Mr. H, St. J. Douis- 

 thorpe exhibited specimens of the rare Tacltys jtaividia, taken in the 

 New Forest in May. — Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited specimens of Mock- 

 hnyx velminm, Ruthe, a rare British Culicid, which he, in company with 

 Messrs. Verrall and Wainwright, had found in numbers near Beaulieu 

 in Hampshire, on May 22nd. — Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited an Ophionine 

 ichneumon, the head of which was covered with the pollen of some 

 orchid, making the insect look as though it was attacked with fungus. 

 — Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited long series of Amjcrona vrmiaria 

 and Lyccena coiydoii, showing a remarkable range of variation in both 

 species. — Tlie President exhibited specimens of Paltothyreus taisatns, 

 Fabr., an ant belonging to the family Poueridae, recently received from 

 Dr. S. Schonland, Curator of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 

 who mentioned that he had noticed, about eight miles west of Palapye 

 Road Station, an awful stench, which, however, passed ofi" after a time. 

 It turned out afterwards that it emanated from some ants of this species 

 living in trees. — The President exhibited a cluster of the green eggs of 



