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of all the wings, and in several others on that of the fore- 

 wings only, a sort of fovea densely packed with hairs showing 

 considerable structural detail. So far as he knew this 

 character did not exist in any but male specimens. Dr. 

 Dixey, Prof. Poulton and Lord Rothschild, to whom he had 

 shown them, agreed with him that the hairs were probably of 

 an androconial nature. 



The " tapping " of Anobium striatum and A. pertinax. 

 —The President said that he had found the authority for 

 Kirby's statement that Latreille had witnessed the " tapping'' 

 of A. striatum with its mandibles, hut he suspected there 

 was some error in identification of the species. Also that 

 in the " Wiss. Zeit. fur Insektenbiologie " for 1910 the 

 Danish naturalist Jensen Haarup spoke of A. pertinax as 

 tapping most vigorously before a storm and being regarded 

 in Jutland as a weather prophet. As this was described as 

 taking place specially in autumn and winter, the President 

 considered it probable that the tapping was really made by 

 the bookdouse. 



Comm. Walker felt sure that he had heard A. striatum 

 tapping where no X. tesseUaium were present. 



Wednesday, May 1st, 1918. 



Dr. C. J. Uahan, M.A., I). 8c. President, in the Chair. 



Time of Meeting. 



The President asked for an expression of opinion as to 

 altering the time of meeting to 5 p.m., in view of the incon- 

 venience caused by railway restrictions, as a guide to future 

 action. Messrs. E. E. Green, Bacot, Willoughby Ellis 

 and Turner spoke, and on a show of hands it appeared that 

 the majority would be in favour of such a change. 



Exhibits. 

 A Series ok Agrias narcissus, Staud. .Mr. \Y. .I. Ivaye, 

 on behalf of Mr. J. •). Joicey, exhibited a series of 8 ; ; and 



