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to the Society a copy of all his Entomological books and 

 pamphlets, for which a special vote of thanks was unanimously 

 passed to Fr. Wasmann on the motion of the President. 



Exhibitions. 



Rare Coleoptera. — Mr. W. E. Sharp exhibited specimens 

 of Carpophilus 6-pustulatus, ¥., and C. obsoletus, Er., taken 

 under bark of beech trees near Doncaster in October 1911; 

 the former having been recorded from the same locality only 

 on a few occasions during recent years, and the latter never 

 having been known to occur under natural conditions in 

 England previously. 



Mr. Sharp having explained that both species had been 

 previously found in England amongst bad raisins, a discussion 

 arose as to the means by which they might possibly have been 

 transferred to such a locality as that in which they Avere found. 

 Mr. J. E. Collin observed that raisins unfit for human consump- 

 tion were a well-known bait for attracting pheasants, and the 

 President suggested a picnic party as the possible cause ; the 

 exhibitor, however, said that the wood in which these beetles 

 had been found had been for many years a fox-cover, and that 

 it Avas not a place to which picnic parties came. The Rev. 

 G. Wheeler observed that in any case it was obvious that 

 Entomologists had access to the wood, and said that he him- 

 self frequently took raisins as a part of his lunch when out for 

 the day, and that some one else might have done the same 

 thing, and if he found his raisiiis bad would naturally have left 

 them behind. Mr. Waterhouse thought it probable that the 

 natural habitat of the insects was under bark, and that they 

 merely came to raisins as so many insects come to sweet 

 substances, but Mr. Champion was of opinion that they 

 naturally fed upon fruit. 



Birds as a Check on Insect Pests. — Mr. Champion called 

 attention to a paper by Mr. H. C. Bryant, recently published 

 in an ornithological periodical, the " Condor," for November 

 1911, entitled " The relation of birds to an insect outbreak in 

 northern California during the spring and summer of 1911." 

 The insect in question was a butterfly, Eugonia calif ornica (an 

 ally of E. polychloros), and five species of birds were found to 



