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Wednesday, April 20th, 1904. 

 Dr. F. A. DiXBY, M.A., M.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellov^a, 

 M, Jules Bourgeois, St. Mcarie-aux-Mines [Mavkirch], 

 Germany; Mr. James E. Black, Nethercroft, Peebles, N.B. ; 

 Mr. Maurice Frederic Bliss, " Coningsburgh," Montpellier 

 Road, Ealing, W.; Mr. Edward F. S. Tylecote, M.A., Durham 

 House, Lansdowne Road, Bournemouth ; Mr. Francis Gilliat, 

 B.A., of Lloyds', E.G., and Forest Dene, Worth, Sussex, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited a $ specimen of the beetle Sayra 

 senegalensis with 9 chaiacters recei\ ed from Mr. Barker in 

 Natal, who had taken it In cop. 



Dr. Norman Joy exhibited Orochares angustata, Ev., taken 

 at Bradfield, Berks, in December 1903 — the second recoi-ded 

 Biitish specimen ; a species of Tychiux., which he said might be 

 a variety of Tychins polylineatus, Germ, (not now included in 

 the British List), or, more probably, a new species closely 

 allied to it, taken near Streatley, Berks, last year ; and 

 two specimens of PseXaplius dresdensis, Herbst., taken near 

 Newbury this year. 



Mr. G. O. Waterhouse exhibited an unnamed species of 

 Nemoptera from Asia Minor, resembling Nemopiera hnttii 

 from Australi.i. 



Papers. 



Mr. F. Enock, F.L.S., read a paper on " Nature's Protection 

 of Insect Life illustrated by Golour Photography," and 

 exhibited a number of lantern slides. 



Mr. P. I. Lathy, F.Z.S., communicated a paper on "New 

 Species of South American Erycinida?." 



JJiscrtssion . 



A discussion followed on specimens of the Dipterous families 

 Stratiomyidx to Cyrtidx, opened by Mr. G. H. Verrall, who 

 said that the object of the discussion was to detei-mine as far as 



