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October 18, 1893. 
Heyry Joun Exwes, Esq., F.L.8., F.Z.S., President, in 
the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 
to the respective donors. 
Election of a Fellow. 
Professor C. H. Tyler Townsend, of the Institute of Jamaica, 
Kingston, Jamaica, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. R. Adkin exhibited two Leucania vitellina and one L. 
extranea, taken by Mr. B. W. Adkin in the Scilly Islands, in 
August, 1893. 
Mr. R. South exhibited a specimen of Polyommatus beticus, 
and a number of varieties of Chrysophanus phleas, captured in 
Kent, in September last, by Mr. Sabine; also a curious 
variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, taken in Lancashire in May, 
1898, by Mr. T. Baynes; a pallid variety of Vanessa urtica, 
taken by Mr. W. E. Cox in Monmouthshire, in July, 1898; 
and a T'riphena pronuba, the right wings of which were 
typical, and the left wings resembled the variety innuba, 
caught at sugar, in Dovedale, Derbyshire, by Mr. Blagg, in 
July, 1898. 
Mr. G. H. Verrall exhibited a specimen of the Tsetse 
(Glossina morsitans), and also one of the common European 
allied species (Stomoxys calcitrans). He also exhibited a 
specimen of Hematobia serrata, Dsy., which he stated was 
not uncommon on cattle in England, but believed to be 
harmless; while in North America the dreaded ‘“ horn-fly ”’ 
is said to be the same species. 
Mr. Elwes exhibited a larva which he had found three 
days previously under stones on a moraine, apparently quite 
destitute of vegetation, in the Austrian Tyrol, at an elevation 
of about 7000 feet. He remarked on the number of Alpine 
butterflies, some of them in fresh condition, which he had 
seen whilst chamois-hunting in the Tyrol during the last 
