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foliage. The contents of the tube were examined, each day, 

 for the first week, without result. The insect remained alive 

 but, apparently, uninterested in the question of reproduction. 

 The tube was put aside and (it must be confessed) completely 

 forgotten — until this morning, when the insect was seen to 

 be dead, with its saws choked with a mass of what appears 

 to be fragments of plant fibre and cell tissue. An examina- 

 tion of the pine foliage showed some semitranslucent paler 

 areas along the edges of the needles. A rough dissection 

 proved that these pale areas each contained a single creamy- 

 white egg. At the tip of one needle, an egg was partly ex- 

 posed ; but in every other case the eggs are completely concealed 

 and their presence indicated solely by the translucent areas. 

 There is no noticeable disturbance of the tissues, nor is there 

 any extraneous deposit of fibrous or secretionary matter — 

 such as has been observed above the embedded eggs of P. 

 pini. The egg capsule is very thin and fragile, and is easily 

 ruptured. It should be noted that the above remarks are 

 the result of a very hurried and superficial examination, 

 undertaken just before coming up to attend this meeting." 



Wednesday, November 7th, 1917. 



Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, President, and afterwards 

 Dr. G. B. LoNGSTAFP, M.A., M.D., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Election oj FeUoivs. 



Prof. T. D. A. CocKERELL, of the University of Colorado, 

 U.S.A., Miss D. J. Jackson, Swordale, Evanton, Ross-shire, 

 and Mr. Jesse Johnson, 16 and 17 Marston Road, Stafford, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Nuptial Flight op Butterflies. — Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 exhibited several pairs of Pierines captured by Dr. G. D. H. 

 Carpenter, at Itigi, 150 miles east of Tabora in what was 

 German East Africa. In commenting on them, he said — 



" Professor Poulton has put into my hands the following 



