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Wednesday, October 2nd, 1907. 
Mr. C. O. Wartrernouss, President, in the Chair. 
Election of Fellows. 
Mr. James ALLAN Dyson Perrins, of Davenham, Malvern, 
and Mr. Frank Minsurn Howterr of the Agricultural 
Department, Pusa, Bengal, India, were elected Fellows of the 
Society. 
Exhibitions. 
SITARIS MURALIS AT OxrorD.—Commander J. J. WaLKER 
showed living specimens of the Heteromerous beetle Sitaris 
muralis, rediscovered at Oxford in 1903 by Mr. A. H. Hamm 
of the Oxford University Museum, and found rather freely 
during September 1906 and 1907, on old stone walls in the 
vicinity of Oxford inhabited by the Mason Bee, Podalirius 
(Anthophora) pilipes, on which it is parasitic in its early 
stages. 
MeanismM In Yor«surreE—Mr, G. T. Porrirr exhibited 
black specimens of both sexes of Fidonia atomaria from the 
Harden Moss Moors, Huddersfield, illustrating the melanic 
tendency of Lepidoptera in the district. 
Rare CoLeoprerRa, ET¢c., FROM Kent anp ScoTtLanp.—Mr. H. 
St. J. DonistHorre exhibited (a) Apion semivittatum taken on 
Mercurialis annua in plenty at Deal in August and Septem- 
ber 1907; (b) Magdalis duplicata from Nethy Bridge in July 
1907 ; (c) Formica sanguinea from Aviemore and Nethy Bridge 
in July 1907; the first record for Scotland, and (d) Piezostethus 
formicetorum, taken with Formica rufa at Rannoch, in July, 
a species which has not been found in Scotland since Dr. 
Buchanan White first captured it at Braemar in 1874. 
ButtEerFLIES FROM Huneary.—Mr. A. H. Jones brought 
for exhibition a case of butterflies taken this year from 
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