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Mr. Slater, Mr. Poulton, Mr. Distant, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Hamp- 

 son, Mr. Elwes, and Mr. Barrett took part. 



Mr. E. Meyrick read a paper entitled " On the Classification 

 of the Geometrina of the European Fauna." Mr. Hampson, 

 Mr. Elwes, Mr. McLachlau, Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Tutt, and 

 Mr. Distant took part in the discussion which ensued. 



February 24, 1892. 



Frederick DuCane Godman, Esq., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



Election uf Fellows. 



Mr. Walter Cuthbert Biddell, of 32, The Grove, Bolton 

 Gardens, S.W. ; and Mr. Douglas Stuart Steuart, of North 

 Leigh, Prestwich, Lancashire, were elected Fellows. 



Death of an K.v-PreMdent. 



The President referred to the loss the Society had recently 

 sustained by the death of Mr. Henry Walter Bates, F.K.S., 

 who had twice been its President ; and he also read a copy 

 of the resolution of sympathy and condolence with Mrs. Bates 

 and her family, in their bereavement, which had been passed 

 by the Council of the Society at their meeting that evening. 



Exhibitions, i(-c. 



Mr. Frederick C. Adams exhibited a specimen of Telephorus 

 rusticus, taken in the New Forest, in which the left meso- 

 thoracic leg consisted of three distinct femora, tibiae, and 

 tarsi, apparently originating from a single coxa ; he also 

 exhibited specimens of Lcdra anrita. 



Mr. G. A. James Eothney sent for exhibition a series of 

 specimens of two species of Indian ants (Myrmicaria subcari- 

 nata, Sra., and Aphcenogaster barbanis, L. var. punctatiis, Forel), 



