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the Chair.—The President announced that the Rev. George Wheeler 
had been obliged to resign the Secretaryship on account of ill-health, 
and that the Council had elected Mr. H. Rowland-Brown in his place. ° 
A vote of thanks to Mr. Wheeler for his services, extended over ten 
years, was proposed by the President, and carried unanimously. The 
following were elected Fellows of the Society : Capt. K. J. Hayward, 
Aswan, Egypt; Mr. E. Bolton King, Balliol College, Oxford; Mr. 
L. M. Pears, West Virginia, U.S.A.; Mr. E. D. Lewis, Swanley, 
Kent; Mr. W. J. Hall, Cairo, Egypt; Mr. D. Ponniah, Federated 
Malay States; Mr. H. D. Hope, Jermyn Street, London, 8.W. ; Prof. 
Dr. 8S. Matsumura, Japan; and Prof. C. P. Alexander, Illinois, U.S.A. 
Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., exhibited series of butterflies from 
Central Peru to illustrate the mimetic relationship between Hell- 
conius notabilis microclea, Kaye, and H. xenoclea, Hew.—Mr. W. J. 
Kaye suggested that the palatability of the two was probably the 
same.—Mr. H. J. Donisthorpe gave an account of the latest views 
on the sub-families of ants, and illustrated his remarks with numerous 
diagrams.—In connection therewith Mr. W. C. Crawley exhibited 
representatives of each of the two groups separated by Wheeler, and 
remarked that the large termite ants could be heard by their kind.— 
Lt.-Col. Peile, I.M.S., brought for exhibition a collection of butterflies 
made by him in Mesopotamia. These included a new species of 
Lycxna, with the Blues which it was taken in company with: 
a new sub-species of Zegris eupheme = dyala, differing from var. 
menestho, Men., which occurs at Fathah on the right bank of the 
Tigris, in the absence of the yellow sutfusion in the ground-colour of 
the hind wing, and from ab. tschudica, H.=S., in having more 
white in proportion to the green, and Melitea trivia persea, Koll., 
the three seasonal forms from various localities in Mesopotamia and 
the North-West Frontier of India—Mr. EK. B. Ashby exhibited an 
example of Paprlio machaon rufopunctata, Wheeler, from Les Voirons, 
Haute-Savoie, and a series of Parasemia plantaginis from the Col de 
Faucille above Gex, Ain, in the French Jura, showing a great diversity 
of variation. One specimen, he thought, might be referred to 
matronalis, but the President did not support this view, the melanism 
not being sufficiently pronounced.—Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. 
J. J. Joicey, exhibited teratological aberrations of Lepidoptera, and a 
case containing several new forms of African Rhopalocera. The 
following papers were then read: ‘“ On Some Chrysomelide (Coleop- 
tera) in the British Museum,” by Mr. A. M. Lee; “‘ Types of Heteromera 
deseribed by F. Walker now in the British Museum,” by K. G. Blair. 
—H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 
THE SourH Lonpon Enromonoaican anp Naturan History 
Society.—February 10th—The President in the Chair.—Mr. H. 
Main exhibited a contrivance he was trying in his breeding-pots to 
keep the earth damp and at the same time to avoid staleness and 
mould.—Mr, R. Adkin, a Prerts brassice with the black apices of the 
fore wings radiated by yellow streaks, taken at Eastbourne in 
August, 1920.—Mr. Hy. Turner, a series of Selidosema plumaria from 
Ireland, Co. Tyrone, including a curious streaked melanic male 
which he had named ab. intermedia-fumosa. He also showed a 
4ygena sent by Mr. Greer from Co. Tyrone as a captured hybrid 
