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all Fellows for their support, as well as to the Local Natural 
History Societies throughout the United Kingdom. He men¬ 
tioned also that the County Council of Essex were sending a 
delegate, and he hoped that the other Counties would recognise 
in the same way the value of the services to be rendered to 
science by the Congress. 
Mr. F. Merrifibld, as an official of the East and West Sussex 
County Councils, said the subject Avoukl undoubtedly be con¬ 
sidered by those bodies, and probably by others interested, 
and Dr. K. Jordan gave an outline of the programme of 
papers already arranged to be delivered. 
Entomological Society of Russia. 
The Secretary said that a letter had been received from 
the Entomological Society of Russia, inviting tbe Society to 
send a delegate to the forthcoming Jubilee Celebration in 
St. Petersbiirg. 
The President having intimated that the Council Avould be 
glad to receive the name of any Fellow able to undertake the 
journey, on the motion of Mr. J. W. Tutt, seconded by Mr. 
H. Rowland-Brown, it Avas resoh-ed unanimously to send a 
letter of congratulation to the Society in honour of the 
occasion. 
Exhibitions. 
Collecting in the Rhone Valley.— Mr. John Alderson, 
Avho Avas present as a visitor, exhibited the j-esults of six 
weeks’ collecting in the Rhone Valley, SAvitzerland, in May 
and June last, representative in all of one hundred and tAvo 
species of Rhopalocera. 
New Earavig from Borneo. —Dr. K. Jordan exhibited 
two specimens of the new kind of earAvig, Arixenia esau, lately 
described by him in Nov. Zook, p. 313, PI. xvi-xviii (1909). 
The insect was discoA^ered in the breast-pouch of a specimen 
of the “naked bat” obtained in Sarawak. Under the micro¬ 
scope Avere shoAvn the mandible and maxilla of Arixenia, 
together with the mandible of Ileinimerus. 
A CONVENIENT METHOD OF STORING BUTTERFLIES IN PaPER 
Envelopes. —Mr. E. E. Green sent for exhibition boxes 
