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November 19th, 1902. 



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

 the Chair. 



Election of a Fellow. 



Mr. E. M. Cheesemax, of 63 Railway Street, Durban, Natal, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Proposed alterations of Bye Laws. 



The proposed alterations of the Bye Laws were read a 

 second time and some discussion followed. 



Exhibitions. 



Dr. Sharp, F.R.S., exhil)ited the egg-cases made by a beetle 

 of the genus Aspidomorpha (^1. pancticosta) and stated that 

 they had been sent to him by Mr. F. Muir, of Durban, Natal, 

 where the beetle and the egg-cases are common. He said that 

 Mr. INluir had observed the manner in which the case is formed, 

 and hoped shortly to present a paper to the Society describing 

 tliis, and the anatomical structures involved. 



Dr. Norman H. Joy exhibited a well-marked aberration of a 

 female Lycxna icarus striped black on the iniderside in the 

 place of the usual ocellations ; an androgynous specimen of the 

 same species ; an aberration of ;i male Lycxna bellargus, 

 also striped on the underside ; a specimen of Lyavna 

 (Eve^'es) argiades taken in 1885 near Bournemouth ; and speci- 

 mens of Apatnra iris from the neighbourhood of Reading, 

 captured in 1901. With regard to the latter species he said 

 that with Mr. Lee he took altogether fourteen specimens, all 

 males, eleven of them from tlie three top branches on the 

 north side of a beech tree. No females were seen ; in fact it 

 appeared to be the throne of the ruling " Emperor " of the 

 wood. "Whenever another iris came by, the one on tlie 

 " throne " attacked it, and after a fight in which one would 

 eventually pursue the other out of sight, the conqueror would 

 return to the perch. If this was captured the next ?V/s coming 



