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Dixey, Prof. Hudson Beare, Colonel Yerbux'j, Mr. J. W. Tutt, 

 and Prof. Poulton took part. 



Mr. Malcolm Burr, B.A., F.L.S. contributed "A mono- 

 graph of the genus Acrtda, with notes of some allied genera, 

 and descriptions of new species." 



Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., communicated three papers by Mr. 

 R. C. L. Perkins, respectively entitled : 



(a) "Notes on Hawaiian Wasps, with descriptions of new 

 species " ; 



{b) "■ Four new species and a new genus of parasitic Hymenop- 

 tersi (Ichneumonida:') from the Hawaiian Islands;" and 



(c) "On the generic characters of Hawaiian Crahronidx ; 

 four new eeaera characterized." 



March 19th, 1902. 



Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.E.S., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



Election of Felloivs. 



Mr. Bexaiah W. Adkin, of Brandon House, Morden Hill, 

 Lewisham ; Mr. E. D. Bostock, of Texall Lodge, Stafford ; 

 Mr. Hubert Edelstein, of the Elms, Forty Hill, Enfield, 

 Middlesex ; Capt. Frederick W. Huttox, F.R.S., of the 

 Canterbury Museum, Christchuich, New Zealand ; !Mr. 

 Frederick William Lambart Sladex, of Eipple Court, 

 Bingwould, Dover; and JVIr. Gerard Orby Sloper, of Wes- 

 trop House, Highworth, Wiltshire, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



Exliibitions. 



INIi'. W. J. Kaye exhibited a numbei' of insects from 

 British Guiana, many of them taken by himself, illustrative 

 of Miillerian mimicry. An extensive series of Heliconine 

 dark hind-winged species, was made up of Melinxa mneme, 

 M. crameri, and M. % n. sp., Mechanitis doryssus, Lycorea ater- 

 (jatis, vars., and Ileliconinus vetusius. Another particvilarly 

 interesting group consisted of Lauroii 2>artita, a llypsid moth, 

 Ithomia zarepha, an Ithomine butterfly, and Stalactis evelina, 



