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Publications, and Library—had been formed in place of the Business 
Committee, and the names of the Fellows appointed to serve thereon 
respectively.—Mr. A. Bacot exhibited living specimens of Crmer 
hirundinis, and gave an account of his breeding experiments there- 
with.—Dr. K. Jordan exhibited examples of the Saturnian genera 
Holocera, Ludia, and Orthogonioptilum, and demonstrated the 
presence of a kind of stridulating organ, absent in the males ; 
also two species of Graphipterus, Gr. rotundatus, Klug, and 
Gr. peletiert, Castln., from Algeria, both provided with stridulating 
organs. He said that the latter was found in association with 
Crcindela touquit, Guer., and that although the difference was 
apparent in the cabinet, in Nature they were practically indis- 
tinguishable-—Dr. C. J. Gahan remarked on the great interest of 
the discovery of these organs in the female Henucha, the only other 
instance known to him being that of Phonaphale, « genus of beetles 
of the family Bostrichide—Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a fine speci- 
men of Markia hystrix, Westw., a rare and remarkable locust from 
Costa Rica. 
mimetic moths which had been observed migrating together from one 
valley to another in Selangor, F.M.S., and read a letter from Mr. 
A. R. Anderson, the observer and captor, as to the conditions under 
which the exhibited specimens were taken. Prof. Poulton also 
exhibited a female Hypsa (Asota) alczphron, Cram., which after 
inspection had been rejected and neglected by Geckos from Lampur, 
F.M.S., also examples of Musca autumnalis, De G., found hiber- 
nating as in previous years at St. Helens, I.W. The numbers 
appeared to be greater than in any winter except that of 1914-15 
(cp. ‘ Proc. Ent. Soce.,’ 1915, p. 21).—Mr. H. J. Donisthorpe brought 
for exhibition a number of workers of Acanthomyops (Dendrolasius) 
fuliginosus, all of which had workers of 4. wmbratus fastened by their 
mandibles on to their legs, etc., taken at Woking in August, 1915, when 
a fierce battle was in progress between the two species. It served 
a good opportunity to establish how soon the Myrmecophils enter 
the new nest, and those observed in the five ensuing years were also 
exhibited.—Mr. Lachlan Gibb showed several forms of the female of 
Chrysophanus dispar rutilus bred by Capt. Bagwell Purefoy. After 
eight years’ experimental breeding in this country it was found that 
the blue sheen on the undersides of the species approximated more 
generally to that of the extinct form, but the broad orange band on 
the underside showed a tendency to diminish.—The following papers 
were read: ‘‘ Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum: (1) 
The Group of Huprepocnemint’’ by Dr. B. P. Uvarov; ‘ Notes on 
Synonymy, and on Some Types of Oriental Carabid@ in various 
Foreign Collections,” by Mr. H. E. Andrews. 
March 2nd.—This being the first meeting held at aie Society's 
new premises, 41, Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, S.W., the 
President, the Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., delivered an address 
of welcome to the very large number of Fellows and visitors present. 
Mr. F. C. Willett, of Sipetong, British North Borneo, was elected a 
Fellow of the Society.—The President exhibited a collection of gynan- 
dromorphous Lepidoptera, including examples of ¢ Orgyia antiqua, 
Scrapteron dispar, Stgr:, and Papilio (Troides)” haliphron; also 
