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December 3rd, 1902. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. Philip J. Barraud, Bushey Heath, Herts., Mr. William 

 E. Butler, Hayling House, Oxford Road, Reading, and Dr. 

 Malcolm Cameron, R.N. , h.m.s. Harrier, Mediterranean Station, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Proposed alterations of Bye Laws. 



The proposed alterations of the Bye Laws were read a third 

 time. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. H. W. Andrews exhibited a male specimen of Therio- 

 plectes luridus, from Chattenden, July 1902. Females of 

 this species have been taken by Colonel Yerbury, as repoi'ted 

 in the Proceedings (1900, p. xiv), at Nethy Bridge, N.B., 

 but there appears to be no record of the capture of the male. 

 He also exhibited a male Platychirus sticticics, and a female 

 M'icrodo7i devius from Eltham, and Shoreham (Kent), re- 

 spectively, and three small dark examples of Syrphus balteaiiis, 

 taken near Brockenhurst, where the form was not uncommon, 

 in October 1902. 



Mr. M. Burr exhibited two species of rhyUium from Ceylon, 

 sent by Mr. Green, P. hiocidatnm, Gray (^^eriiri folium, Hann., 

 and scythe, Gi'ay), which produces flanged ova, and is the 

 conniioner of the two, and P. athanysxis, Westw., a scarce 

 species with a less ornate ovum. Both specimens were very 

 fresh adult females. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a hybrid Selenia bilunaria x S. 

 tetralunaria, together with spring and summer examples of 

 both species far comparison. From a paiiing which took place 

 between a wild c? bihinaria and a $ tetralunaria reared in 

 captivity, about sixty ova were obtained, about half of which 

 hatched. The larvae appeared to be sickly, and in the result 

 only three imagines were reared, all males, which emerged 



