( xxviii ) 



Wednesday, May 6th, 1908. 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhousb, President, in the Chair. 



Election of Felloios. 



Mr, Thomas Godfrey Andros, Ph.D., F.Z..S., of Wilton 

 House, 31 St. Saviour's Eoad, Jersey ; Mr. Chourappa Chetti, 

 Assistant Cui'ator of the Government Museum at Bangalore, 

 India; Mr. Frederick Charles Fraser, LM.S.,M.D,, M.R.C.S., 

 L.ll.C.P., of Trichinopoly, India; and Mr. Walter M. 

 GiFEARD, of Keeaunoki Street, Honolulu, Hawiian Islands ; 

 and Mr. AlfrbI) Vander Hedges, of 42 Kensington Park 

 Gardens, W., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Obituary. 



The decease was announced of Mr. Francis Ford Freeman, 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Aberrant and Living Lepidoptera. — Mr. A. II. Jones 

 exhibited an example of the melanic ab. nigra of Teiilirosia 

 consonaria bred from a wild $ taken at Wateringbury, near 

 Maidstone, by Mr. W. Goodwin ; and a living larva of Hesia 

 andreniformis feeding in the stem of Viburnum lantcma, found 

 by Mr. F. J. liobinson. 



BLATTiDyE IN Amber. — Mr. R. SiiELFORD exhibited some 

 Blattidaj in amber, forming part of the collection of Dr. R. 

 Klebs, of Kunigsberg; the specimens came from the well- 

 known deposits of Lower Oligocene age in East Prussia, 

 celebrated even in Roman times for the large quantities of 

 amber found in them. A great monogx-aph on this amber 

 fauna was written in the years 1845-1856 by Berendt and 

 Germar ; in this work 5 species of Blattidre are figured and 

 described, but very little has been written since then on the 

 subject. A preliminary examination of Dr. Klebs' collection 

 shows that it contains representatives of six genera which are 

 identical with recent genera. These are Ectobia (2 species), 

 Ischnoptera (1 or 2 species), Phi/Uodroiuia (4 to 5 species). 



1 



