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being handled. Of four beetles caught, one was carrying 

 twelve of these flies, another three, and the other two three 

 between them ; but it is very probable that in the last three 

 cases some of the flies had been brushed off in netting the beetle 

 or during its struggles in the net. 



It seems probable that these flies fill the role rather of 

 passengers than of parasites in the strict sense of the word, 

 clinging to the beetle as an easy means of transport to, and 

 discovery of, their pabulum, which is probably in this case the 

 dung of wild buffaloes. 



Papers. 



"On some new and little-known Neotropical Lycaenklae^^ 

 by Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S. 



" A Description of the Superior Wing of the Hymenoptera, 

 with a view to give a simple and more certain Nomenclature 

 to the Alary System of Jurine," by Claude Morley, F.Z.S. 



" On the Colonisation of new nests of ants by Myrme- 

 ophilous Coleoptera," by H. St. J. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. 



" New Genera of British Mymaridae (Haliday)," by Fred, 

 Enock, F.L.S. 



Wednesday, October 6th, 1909. 



Dr. F. A. DixEY, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



Cambridge Darwin Centenary. 

 The President, giving an account of the proceedings at the 

 Cambridge University Darwin Centenary Celebration, men- 

 tioned that the Address of the Entomological Society had 

 been received with special applause. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. Hugh Scott, B.A., Trinity College, and the Museum 

 of Zoology, Cambridge, and Mr. Carlton C. Goudey, B.Sc, 

 Uganda, British East Africa, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



