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somewhat against any change, it was announced that the 
Council would take no official action on the matter, it being 
open to any six Fellows to require a Special Meeting if they 
so desired. 
Wicken Fen. 
The PREesIDENT brought before the meeting the necessity 
of forming a fund for the care of that portion of Wicken Fen 
left by the late Mr. G. H. Verrall to the National Trust, and 
at his request the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and Mr. H. Rowland- 
Brown addressed the meeting on the subject. Mr. Rowland- 
Brown, at the President’s desire, expressed his readiness to 
act as Treasurer for any subscriptions given by Fellows of the 
Society. It was added that the question of the possibility 
of the Society’s contributing, as such, would be brought before 
the next meeting of the Council. 
Exhibitions. 
THAIS RUMINA AS A ProrecteD Species.—Dr. G. B. Lone- 
sTAFF exhibited a series of 17 Thais rumina, Linn. (including 
a ° of the var. canteneri, Feld.), taken in March 1913 at Ronda, 
in Andalusia, where the species is common. He called atten- 
tion to the fact that this beautiful but familiar 8. European 
butterfly is conspicuously coloured, with the striking pattern 
much alike on the two surfaces, that its flight is very slow 
and fearless, that it is difficult to kill by pinching, and further 
that it has a very persistent peculiar odour of a musty char- 
acter with a suggestion of the scent of the pepper-tree. These 
characters taken together are highly suggestive of a distasteful 
butterfly. 
Panorpa coGnaTa, Ramsp.—Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited 
three species of Panorpa, and communicated the following 
note :—‘ On Oct. 1 Col. J. W. Yerbury gave me a dragon-fly 
and three Neuroptera which he took during the summer in 
Wales. One of these, which I exhibit, is a female of the 
scarce Scorpion-fly Panorpa cognata. It was captured at 
Llangammarch Wells on August 23. I once took a specimen, 
also a female, at Byfleet in Surrey. Besides these | know of 
but one or two other captures. ‘There are, however, a few 
