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SOCIETIES. 
ENNTOMOLOGICAL Society oF Lonpon.— Wednesday, November 5th, 
1913.—Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 
chair.—Mr. A. P. Semenoff Tian-Shanski was elected an Honorary 
Fellow in the place of the late Prof. O. M. Reuter.—The following 
gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society :—Messrs. Hugh 
Warren Bedford, Church Felles, Horley; Harold $8. Cheavin, F.R.M.S., 
F.N.P.S., Clematis House, Somerset Road, Huddersfield; Charles 
Alban William Duffield, Stowting Rectory, Hythe, and Wye College, 
Kent; W. Egmont Kirby, M.D., Hilden, 46, Sutton Court Road, 
Chiswick, W.; Louis Meaden, Melbourne, Dyke Road, Preston, 
Brighton; F. V. Bruce Miller, Livingston, N. Rhodesia; Alexander 
David Peacock, 137, Wingrove Gardens, and Armstrong College, New- 
castle-on-Tyne; H. Ananthaswamy Rao, Curator of the Government 
Museum, Bangalore, India; Percival Nathan Whitley, New College, 
Oxford, and Brankwood, Halifax.—The question of the change of title 
of the Society was opened for discussion, but the preponderance of 
feeling appeared to be somewhat against any change.—The President 
brought before the meeting the necessity of forming a fund for the 
care of that portion of Wicken Fen left by the late Mr. G. H. Verrall 
to the National Trust, and at his request Mr. Rowland-Brown 
expressed his readiness to act as Treasurer for any subscriptions 
given by Fellows of the Society.—Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited a 
series of seventeen Thais rumina, L. (including a female of the var. 
cantener, Held.), taken in March, 1918, at Ronda, and called atten- 
tion to the characters suggestive of a distasteful butterfly —Mr. 
W. J. Lucas, three species of Panorpa, including a female of the scarce 
scorpion-fly, Panorpa cognata.—Mr. H. Lupton, a specimen of U'halpo- 
chares ostrina, taken in the middie of June, 1913, about four miles from 
Ilfracombe. Also two specimens of Dianthacia luteago vay. ficklina, 
taken in the middle of the same month on the coast of N. Devon.— 
Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter read notes in connection with his exhibit of 
Epitoxa albicincta. He also exhibited a case of miscellaneous insects 
and communicated notes upon them. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited 
males, winged females, and a deilated female and workers of the very 
rare ant, Solenopsis fugax, Latr., taken at Blackgang, Isle of Wight, on 
August 26th, 1913—Mr. HE. E. Green, an aberrant example of 
Pyrameis (Vanessa) indica, Herbst, from Ceylon.—Comm. J. J. 
Walker, a female specimen of the gigantic Neuropteron, Corydalis 
orientalis, Mclach., taken by a native collector at Chuchow.—Mr. 
L. W. Newman, the following Heterocera :—(1) Calymnia (Cosmia) 
trapezina. A melanic female—a worn specimen taken at sugar in 
Bexley Woods. (2) Zonosoma (Ephyra) annulata and pendularia ; 
a long and very varied series of both species, showing extreme light, 
dark, and intermediate forms and one very pink Z. pendularia. 
(3) A series of hybrid Z. pendularia, female, and annulata, male ; 
specimens showing the markings of pendularia most pronounced 
and the coloration of annulata prominent.—The following papers 
were read :—‘‘ New or little-known Heterocera from Madagascar,” by 
Sir G. H. Kenrick, Bart., F.E.S. ‘The Culicide of Australia,” by 
Frank H. Taylor, F.H.S. ‘Descriptions of New Species of Staphylinidee 
