( (sive) 
The number of Fellows elected during the year is slightly 
above the average. At the same time it is desirable to in- 
crease our numbers more rapidly, so as to enable us to pub- 
lish more papers, and allow more plates, and in other ways 
to advance our interests and promote our objects. The 
Council, therefore, again appeal to the Fellows to do their 
utmost to induce their friends to join the Society and thus 
increase its revenue. 
At the present time the Society consists of 9 Honorary, 
49 Life, and 824 Fellows paying the Annual Subscription, 
making the total number of Fellows now on our List 382, 
which, after allowing for the losses by deaths and resigna- 
tions, is an increase of 16 since the Annual Meeting last 
year. 
Our Transactions for the year 1894 form a volume of 586 
pages, containing 25 Memoirs contributed by the following 
authors, viz., Mr. Edward Meyrick, B.A. (2 papers); Mr. Charles 
Owen Waterhouse; Mr. George T. Bethune-Baker (2 papers); 
Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford, M.A. (2 papers); Mr. Hamilton 
H. Druce ; Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A.; Mr. George C. 
Champion (2 papers); Mr. Edward Saunders; Dr. Frederick 
A. Dixey, M.A., M.D. (2 papers); Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, 
M.D.; Mr. Charles B. Taylor; Mr. William F. Kirby; the 
Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A.; Mr. Frederic Merrifield; Mons. 
Louis Péringuey; Mr. Charles J. Gahan, M.A.; Professor 
Franz Klapalek ; the Rev. Thomas A. Marshall, M.A.; the 
Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, LL.D., F.R.S.; and Mr. 
Kenneth J. Morton. Of these 25 papers 12 relate to Lepido- 
ptera (or to enquiries in which they were the subjects of 
experiment), 7 to Coleoptera, 2 to Hemiptera, 2 to Neuro- 
ptera, 1 to Hymenoptera, and 1 to an entomological excur- 
sion to Corsica. The Memoirs above referred to are illustrated 
by 14 plates, of which 5 are coloured. The Society is in- 
debted to Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker for half the cost of Plate L, 
to Colonel Swinhoe for part of the cost of Plate IL., and to 
Mr. F. Merrifield for the entire cost of Plate IX. 
The Proceedings, containing an account of the Exhibitions 
and Discussions at the Meetings, in addition to several papers 
not published in the Transactions, and to several Notes of 
