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penguins, proceeded to devour the whole of the ship's stores 

 and then to gnaw into the timbers, creating great alarm lest 

 the ship should spring a leak. This voyage took place in the 

 year 1593; and the worms, he thought, could only have 

 been the larv£e of Derviestes vulpinus or some closely allied 

 species. 



Papers. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman read a " Contribution to the life-history 

 of Micropteryx (Eriocephala) ammanella, Ilubn." 



March 1st, 1899. 

 Mr. G. H. Verrall, President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. G. J. Arrow, of the British Museum {Natural History) ; 

 Mr. C. E. Collins, of Stoneham, Calcot, Reading ; Mr. Percy 

 VV. Farmborough, F.Z.S., of Lower Edmonton ; Mr. Mon- 

 tague Gunning, of Narborough,' Leicester ; Mr. Harry Moore, 

 of 12, Lower Road, Rotherhithc ; and Mr. H. S. Woolley, 

 of 7, Park Road, Greenwich, were elected Fellows of the 



Society. 



Exhibitions, d'c. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a specimen of a rare British 

 beetle, Quediiis longicornis, Ktz., recently taken at Cobham 

 Park, Kent. 



Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited a Halticid beetle from Sumatra, 

 of the genus Chaloenus, Westw., and called attention to the 

 remarkable position of its eyes, these organs being placed at 

 the end of two very distinct lateral processes of the head, 

 somewhat resembling the stalked eyes of crabs and other 

 Crustacea. He said this character was peculiar to the male 

 sex, and was very exceptional in Coleoptera, not being met 

 with in any other genus of Phytophaga, and only occur- 

 ring in a few Anthribidje, and in isolated cases in one 

 or two other families. He also showed a beetle from Peru, 

 and said he was for the present unable to express any decided 

 opinion as to its aflSnities. It was sent to him in a collection 

 of Phytophaga, and, superficially, was very like certain 



