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Election to the Council, and Election of Treasurer. 



The President announced that in accordance with the Bye 

 Laws of the Society, Mr. Albert Hugh Jones had been 

 elected a member of the Council, and also elected to the Office 

 of Treasurer in the place of the late Mr. Robert McLachlan. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. E. B. Green exhibited various insects from Ceylon, in- 

 cluding (1) a " Carpenter Bee" {Xylocopa fenestrata, Fab.) and 

 a large Asilid fly {Hijperechia xylocoinformis, Wlk.), which 

 very closely mimics the bee. It is supposed that the Asilid preys 

 upon the bee. The specimen exhibited was observed circling 

 I'ound a Xylocopa and was then mistaken for the male of that 

 insect. But its subsequent attitude — when at rest — betrayed 

 its true nature and led to its capture. (2) Specimens of a 

 Mycetophilid fly and cocoons from which they emerged. The 

 latter were attached to leaves and pieces of wood and showed 

 a beautiful structure, being formed of an open network of 

 white anastomosing threads. (3) Examples of a Tineid moth 

 and its remarkable larval cases. The case consists of a narrow 

 tube — more than an inch long — with numerous short diverti- 

 cula at regular intervals along each side. The larva anchors 

 this case to the bark of the tree and exserts its head from 

 either extremity or from any of the lateral diverticula, to feed 

 upon the surrounding lichens and minute algse. When it has 

 exhausted the food within reach, it severs the connecting 

 strands and drags the case to a fresh part. Above the middle 

 of the tubular case is a thickened pad beneath which the 

 larva rests when moulting and under which it finally pupates. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of the 

 rare beetle Tachys parvulus, taken in the New Forest in 

 May. 



Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited specimens of Mochlonyx velu- 

 tinus, Ruthe, a rare British Culicid which he in company with 

 Messrs. Yerrall and Wainwright had found in numbers near 

 Beaulieu in Hampshire on May 22nd. It was first recorded as 

 British by Walker in 1856 from two females in Mr. Clifton's 

 Collection under Haliday's name of effoetus, though it should 



