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FKS • Mr. Claude Fuller; Mr. Percy I. Lathy; Mr. Jolm 

 Henry Leech; the Kev. T. A. Marshall; Mr Robert 

 McLachlan, F.RS. ; Mr. F. Merrifield and Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton,F.R.S. ; the Rev. F. D. Morice ; and Mr. F. M. van 



der Wulp. 



Eleven of these papers are descriptive, systematic or 

 faunistic, and relate : one to Coleoptera, one to Diptera, two 

 to Hemiptera, three to Lepidoptera and two to Keuroptera. 

 Of the remaining papers two have reference to life-histories in 

 CoccidiB and Lepidoptera, two to sexual dimorphism ui 

 Coleoptera, and one treats of the colour-relation between the 

 pupai of certain Lepidoptera and the surroundings ot the 



larvae. i • u o 



The Memoirs are illustrated by 17 plates, of which b are 



coloured. 



The cost of Plate L has been paid for out of the income 

 derived from the Westwood Bequest; and the Society 

 is indebted to Mr. H. J. Adams for a contribution of i.10 

 towards the cost of Plate IV. ; to Mr. H. J. Elwes for half 

 the cost of Plates XL-XIV. ; to Mr. Claude Fuller for the 

 cost of Plate XV. ; and to Mr. J. H. Leech for a portion of 

 the cost of printing Paper III. 



The Journal of Proceedings, containing an account ot the 

 Exhibitions and Discussions at the Meetings, as well as Notes 

 of interest and short Papers read before the Society, is of much 

 shorter length than usual, the number of pages, exclusive of 

 those taken up by the Report of the Annual Meeting, being 

 27 as compared with 43 in the previous year. Although this 

 may in some measure be attributed to the fact that the 

 Proceedings have not at all times been reported at quite their 

 full length, it seems chiefly to be accounted for by the small 

 number of Exhibitions during the year, and the shortness of 

 the discussions owing to the absence of any topics of sufiiciently 

 ^vide interest to induce a larger number of those Fellows 

 present at the Meetings to speak. It has been noticed, more- 

 over, that many of the Fellows take a less active interest 

 than they might in the proceedings, and show a tendency to 

 rely too much upon a few of their number to promote the 

 success of the Meetings. 



