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Presidents for the present Session—Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited 
specimens of Prodema littoralis, bred from larve found feeding on 
bananas at Weymouth.—Mr. C. B. Williams, a specimen of the 
genus Acerentomon of the order Protura, taken from moss in the New 
Forest, Hampshire. He also drew the attention of the Society to 
the new order Zoraptera just described by Silvestri—Mr. Donis- 
thorpe, specimens of the ants Cicophylla smaragdina, F., from 
Ceylon, and CZ. virescens, F., from North Queensland. These ants 
use their larve to spin threads and fasten the leaves of their nests 
together.—Professor Poulton, a collection of Algerian Diptera and 
other insects associated with them, made by Dr. Adalbert Seitz, 
F.E.S. The specimens were chiefly taken at Batna (about 1300 
metres) in July, 1913.—The following papers were read :—‘ On the 
Egg-laying of Trichiosoma,” by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
“A Remarkable New Genus and Species of Odonata of the Legion 
Podagrion, Sél., from North Queensland,’ by Kenneth J. Morton, 
F.E.S. ‘ Lepidoptera-Heterocera from 8. E. Brazil,” by E. Dukinfield- 
Jones, F.Z.8., F.E.S. “The Myrmecophilous Aphides of Britain,” 
by Professor F. V. Theobald, M.A., F.H.S. 
Wednesday, March 4th.—Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F'.L.S., F'.Z.5., 
President, in the chair.—Messrs. Wm. J. von Monté Pendlebury, 
Broadlands, Shrewsbury, and Keble College, Oxford ; Robert Veitch, 
7, Queen’s Crescent, Edinburgh, and Francis Cardew Woodforde, B.A., 
Market Drayton, Salop, were elected Fellows of the Society.—Mr. H. 
Donisthorpe and Mr. W.C. Crawley exhibited a number of polymorphic 
forms in ants, illustrated by a chart, and read notes.—Dr.T. A. Chap- 
man, a male and female imago of Agriades thersites, alive, bred from the 
egg; also two last-stage larve.—Mr. H. Main, a gynandromorphic 
specimen of Hriogaster lanestris, right side female, left side male, bred 
last year at Hastbourne.—Mr. O. HE. Janson, a specimen which he 
believed to be the female of Goliathus wiser, Heath, hitherto unknown; 
also specimens of G. kirkt, Gray, in which the white markings were 
very perfectly preserved.—Dr. F. A. Dixey, at the desire of Mr. J.C. 
Hawkshaw, F.E.S., a cocoon of Lyonetia clerkella, L., spun up on a 
cherry leaf. Mr. Hawkshaw suggested that the fine silken web 
attached to the leaf on each side of the supporting strands, and guy 
lines by means of which the cocoon is slung up like a hammock, 
served as a protection against ants.—Mr Champion, on behalf of Mr. 
HK. W. Morse, of Leeds, the second British specimen of the genus 
Eudectus, probably a variety of HL. whiter, Sharp, from Ingleborough, 
Yorks., and a pair of Gidemera virescens, L., from Symond’s Yat, 
Hereford.—Mr. Ernest Green, a Coccid with double anterior limb, 
and read notes.—Mr. L. W. Newman, a fine female Lasiocampa 
ilicifolia taken on the wing at Cannock Chase, by Mr. G. B. Oliver, 
on May 25th, 1913. Mr. Newman stated that the larve in captivity 
took readily to aspen.—Mr. A. W. Mera, two specimens of Crdaria 
suffumata, of an unusual form, from East Devon, received from Rey. 
J. W. Metcalfe, who takes this form in damp woods and finds it not 
entirely confined to one wood.—Professor Poulton stated that he had 
just received, from Mr. E. E. Platt, of Durban, the male and female 
parents—both of the wahlbergi form—caught 7m coitu, and with their 
