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wriggle raises it again into its usual resting position. The 

 empty larval skin is pressed flat against the wall of the cell 

 where the pupa cannot come in contact with it. After the 

 exit of the imago the larval skin can be removed, spread out 

 under water and the longitudinal dorsal slit observed through 

 which the pupa had emerged. 



The pupae observed remained from two to three weeks 

 before the emergence of the beetle, only the legs and some 

 of the terminal segments of the abdomen becoming dark. 

 The thorax and elytra of the imago are soft and quite white 

 or cream-coloured at first, but in twenty-four hours they have 

 almost reached their usual coloration. The male is easily 

 distinguished in the pupal stage by the characteristic appear- 

 ance of the enlarged joints of the anterior tarsi. The insects 

 finally escaped through a round hole made in the exterior 

 wall towards the top of the dome-shaped interior and above 

 the part of the wall made by the deposition of the earth from 

 the interior of the cavity (Plates D, E, F, and Gr, fig. 1). 



Wednesday, December 5th, 1917. 



Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



Nomination of Officers and Council. 



The names of the Fellows . nominated by the Council as 

 Officers and Council for the following year were read for the 

 second time. No other names had been received. 



Election of a Fellow. 



Mr. Charles Ogilvib Farquharson, M.A., B.Sc, Govern- 

 ment Agricultural Dept., Moor Plantation, Ibadan, S. Nigeria, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Nomination of an Honorary Fellow. 

 The name of M. Paul Marchal (France) was announced 

 for the first time as having been nominated by the Council 

 for an Honorary Fellowship, in the place of the late Dr. E. 

 Frey-Gessner. 



