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Wednesday, November 2nd, 1904. 



Professor E. B, Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.K.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. E. A. Agar, of La Haut, Dominica, British West 

 Indies ; Mr. Richard Siddoway Bagnall, of the Groves, Win- 

 laton-on-Tyne, Durham ; Mr. Kenneth Gloynb Blair, of 23 

 West Hill, Highgate, N.; Mr. Edward Alfred Cockayne, B. A., 

 of 30 Bedford Court Mansions, W.C. ; Mr. George Blundell 

 LoNGSTAFF, D.M., of Twitchen, Mortehoe, R.S.O., Devon, and 

 Highlands, Putney Heath, S.W.; Mr. Richard Arthur Ruby 

 Priske, of 66 Chaucer Road, Acton ; and Mr. Herbert W. 

 Simmonds, of 17 Aurora Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Hall Testimonial. 



The Treasurer announced that the sum of £40 had been 

 already collected for a testimonial to Mr. W. R. Hall, late 

 Resident Librarian, and intimated that he would be glad to 

 receive further subscriptions. 



Exliibitions. 



Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a specimen of Platyphoraluhhocki, 

 Verr., a species of Phoridaj parasitic upon ants. No specimen 

 has been recorded since the one originally bred by the present 

 Lord Avebury in 1875, and described for him by Mr. G. H. 

 Yerrall in the Journal of the Linnean Society for 1877. The 

 example exhibited was caught by Dr. Wood of Tarrington, 

 Hereford, at Stokes Wood, on July 6, 1904. 



Mr. P. J. Barraud exhibited an aberrant Epinej)hele jurtina 

 (janira), ($ , taken by him this year in the New Forest, agree- 

 ing with the form described by Mr. Roger Verity in the 

 " Entomologist," vol. xxxvii, p. 56, as ab. anommata. The 

 usual apical spots were absent from the fore-wings, giving the 

 specimen a curious appearance, noticeable even when flying. 



Mr. J. Edwards sent for exhibition three specimens of 

 Bayous lutosus, Gyll., one found by himself on Wretham 

 Heath, Norfolk, on August 4th, 1900 — the first authentic 



