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gathered up and brought into the warehouses without being 
shaken. The caterpillars which had taken shelter underneath 
it then ate their way through it, in order to escape in search 
of food. 
Papers. 
Mr. Cuampron communicated papers entitled ‘Notes on 
American and other Tingitide, with Descriptions of two new 
Genera and four Species,’ and ‘‘A List of the Cicindelide, 
Carabide, and Staphylinide collected by Mr. J. J. Walker, 
R.N., in the region of the Straits of Gibraltar.” 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
January 19th, 1898. 
Mr. Rotanp Tren, F.R.S., F.L.8., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. A. Huen Jones, one of the Auditors, read the 
Treasurer’s Balance Sheet, showing a balance of £1 Os. 1d. 
in the Society’s favour. 
Mr. W. FE’. H. Buanprorp, one of the Secretaries, read the 
following 
Report of the Council. 
During the Session of 1897-98 the progress of the Society 
has been satisfactory. 
In 1897 one Honorary Fellow, Dr. Fritz Miller, and six 
Ordinary Fellows have died. The latter are Mr. George 
Christopher Dennis, Mr. Joseph William Dunning, Mr. John 
B. Hodgkinson, Mr. Ernest Sabel, Captain Edward Yerbury 
Watson, and Mr. Morris Young. 
Five Fellows only have resigned, and twenty-four Ordinary 
Fellows have been elected, a number greater than in either 
of the two preceding years. It is gratifying to note that 
the falling off observed in 1896 has proved to be merely 
temporary, and that the applications for admission have 
lately been more spontaneous and derived from a wider circle 
of entomological workers than in the past few years. 
The total number of Fellows now stands at 398, or twelve 
more than last year, the Society consisting of 9 Honorary, 
52 Life, and 337 Fellows liable for the Annual Contribution. 
PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND., v., 1898. F 
