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Wednesday, December 2nd, 1908. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, President, in the Chair. 



Nomination of President, Officers, and Council. 

 The Secretary again read out the list of nominations. 



Donation to the Library. 

 A cordial vote of thanks was given unanimously to Mr. E. 

 A. Elliott, a Fellow of the Society, for his gift of the parts 

 to date of Wytsman's " Genera Insectorum," and the promise 

 of further parts still to be published. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. Sydney Douglas Crompton of Carlton House, Kew 

 Gardens, S.W., and Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis of Aysgarth, 

 Poole, Doi-set, were elected Fellows of the Society, 



Exhibitions. 



Predaceous Diptera. — Mr. H. W. Andrews exhibited some 

 examples of predaceous Diptera and their victims taken 

 during the year, and a specimen of Bassus leetatorius, Fab., ?, 

 bred from a pupa of the dipteron Syrphus balteaius, Dej. 



New and rare Coleoptera. — Professor T. Hudson Bears 

 and Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition speci- 

 mens of Olophrum assimik, Payk., a beetle new to the British 

 fauna, taken by them in September 1908, in some numbers 

 out of flood refuse at Nethy Bridge. Mr. Donisthorpe also 

 showed examples of Trechus longicornis, Stm., from flood refuse 

 at Kelton, near Dumfries, on September 10th ; and of an 

 Anaspis, either a new species, or, A. septentrionalis, Champion, 

 ^, taken in woody fungus on Scots firs at Nethy Bridge on 

 September 16th, this being the third specimen, probably, ever 

 taken. 



Mr. G. C. Champion expressed his opinion that the Anasjns 

 in question did not belong to the species described by himself 

 •or by Schilsky, and suggested that it was A. melanostoma. Mr 



