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The following papers were read, both being illustrated with 

 the Epidiascope : — 



" New species and subspecies of Pierinae," by F. A. DiXEY, 

 M.A., M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. 



" On the Taxonomic Value of the Genital Armature in 

 Lepidoptera," by G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 President of the Entomological Society of London. 



Wednesday, June 3rd, 1914. 



The Hon. N. C. Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



Election of a Fellow. 

 Mr. Reginald Temperley, I'Aurore, Vevey-la-Tour, 

 Switzerland, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



A LIVING Neuropteron.- — Mr, E. E. Green exhibited a 

 living specimen of Raphidia xantJiostigma, taken at light in 

 a house at Camberley, on June 1. In captivity it had fed 

 freely on Aphides. 



CoNOPS VESicuLARis, L., FROM Camberley. — Mr. Green 

 also exhibited an example of Conops vesicularis, L., caught 

 amongst heather at Camberley on April 29. He observed 

 that this fly appears to be very local, being principally confined 

 to the New Forest district. 



Living specimens of Berytus clavipes. — Mr. E. A. 

 Butler exhibited living specimens of Berytus clavipes, Fab., 

 with eggs on leaves of Ononis. Taken on a roadside bank at 

 Royston, Herts., June 1, 1914. 



A SPECIMEN OF Pygolampis bidentata. — Mr. Butler also 

 exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. West, of Lewisham, a (J of 

 Pygolampis bidentata, Goeze, swept in New Forest, May 22, 

 the second recorded British specimen of this insect, the first 



