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OKDINARY MEETING. 

 Wednesday, March 4th, 1908. 



Mr. C. O. Watbrhouse, President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Major E, F. Becher, of 2, Berkeley Villas, Pittville, 

 Cheltenham; theEev. K. St. Aubyn Eogers, M.A., of Pv,abai, 

 Mombasa, British East Africa ; and Mr. Claude Rippon, M. A., 

 of 28, Walton Street, Oxford, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



ObiUiary. 

 The decease of Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., for many years a 

 Secretary of the Society, was announced, and the President 

 having given an account of the services rendered the Society 

 by the deceased gentleman, said that the Council had unani- 

 mously approved a letter of sympathy to be sent to Mrs. 

 Goss. 



Exhihitions. 



Aberrant Coleoptera. — Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited 

 a remarkable specimen of the common Chrysomelid beetle, 

 Sermyla halensis, L., from Deal (ix, 1907), showing unusual 

 coloration of the elytra, which are blue and coppery-red, 

 instead of bright green ; the specimen is also unusually 

 compressed in shape, and has the legs and antennas shorter 

 than in normal examples : and on behalf of Mr. C. J. Pool, 

 a specimen of Otiorrhynchus tenebricosus, Herbst, from 

 Newport, I.W., and of Barynotus obscums, F., from Galway, 

 Ireland, in the first of which both the false mandibles were 

 present, and in the second of which they were not toothed. 



"Weevils showing false mandibles. — Mr. F. B. Jennings 

 also showed a specimen of the weevil Fhyllobius maculicorvis, 

 Germ., retaining both the " false mandibles," and another 

 in which one of them is intact, both from Enfield (v, 1907) ; 

 also a single example of F. urticse, De G., from Cheshunt (v, 

 1907), retaining one of these "mandibles," the particular point 

 of interest in connection with the "false mandibles" in these 

 species being that they were toothed in the centi'e. 



