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Mr. R. McLachlan said that this was not the first time an 

 Orthopteron of aquatic habits had been noticed. Mr. Pascoe 

 had brought back one such insect from the Amazons, which 

 leaped on the leaves of aquatic plants, and there was a recent 

 record of another species with kindred habits being found in 

 Java. 



Prof. E. B. PouLTOx remarked that Prof. Miall was 

 interested in insects which skate upon the water, but there 

 were also some Orthopteia which were aquatic in another 

 sense. Mr. Annandale had brought back from the Malay 

 region an aquatic insect of this order (a Blatta) which was far 

 too heavy to skim upon the surface. 



The President added that there were some Coleoptera 

 which, although non-aquatic, Avere so specialized as to be able 

 to use their limbs in a similar manner to water-beetles. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., communicated a paper 

 on " Asymmetry in the Males of Hemarine and other 

 Sphinges." 



Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S., communicated a paper on 

 *' Lepidoptera from the Chatham Islands." 



June 4th, 1902. 



The Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



Election of a Fellow. 



Mr. Stanley W. Kemp, of 80, Oxford Gardens, Notting Hill, 

 W., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn exhibited a recently emerged 

 male specimen of Lampides haeticus taken at Winchester in 

 September 1899, and two varieties of Lycsena Icarus. Mr. 

 Rowland-Brown said that the insect was reported to have 

 been generally common that year in the Channel Islands, but 

 that those observed and taken were almost entirely confined to 

 the male sex. 



Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited one asymmetrical male and two 



