THE 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



For the Year 1904. 



Wednesday, February 3rd, 1904. 



Pi-ofessoi- E, B. PouLTON, M.A., D.Sc, F.Pt.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



Nomination of Vice-Presidents. 



The President announced that he had nominated Dr. 

 Thomas Algernon Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Dr. Frederick 

 Augustus Dixey, M.A., M.D., and the Rev. Francis David 

 MoRicE, M.A,, as Vice-Presidents for the Session 1904-1905. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. A. J. CniTTY exhibited two specimens of Ptinus tectus, 

 Boisd., taken by him in a granary in Holborn in the winter 

 of 1892-93 ; also a complete series of the red Apions to show 

 A. sanguinemn from the late Frederick Smith's collection. 



Mr. 0. E. Janson exhibited specimens of Papilio iveishei, 

 Ribbe, and Troides meridionalis, Rothschild, recently taken by 

 Mr. A. S. Meek near the Aroa River in the interior of British 

 New Guinea. 



Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited the following species of 

 Coleoptera taken by him in North Wales (on Snowdon) in the 

 first week of August 1903 — a fine series of Chrysomela cerealis, 

 L., a pair of them being of the curious dull form, Anthopfiagun 

 alpimis, Payk., Acidota crenata, F., A'lyedium hrachypterum, 



proc. ent. soc. lond., I. 1904. a 



