( civ ) 



or nearly absent. There could be no doubt that the develop- 

 ment of this colour in the hindwing was due to the 

 appearance, by persistence or reversion, of the more ancestral 

 pattern preserved in the females of the West Coast. 



Wednesday, November 6th, 1912. 



The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Election of an Honorary Fellow. 

 On the nomination of the Council, Dr. Emile Fbey-Gbssner. 

 La Roseraie, Geneve, Switzerland, was elected to the Honorary 

 Fellowship rendered vacant by the death of Prof. Ganglbauek. 



Election of Fellows. 



Messrs. G. C. Bodkin, Govt. Entomologist, George Town, 

 British Guiana ; C. Talbot Bowring, Acting Commissioner 

 of Customs, Wenchow, China ; Frederick Lionel Davis, J, P., 

 M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Belize, British Honduras; 

 Dr. John Dewitz, Devant-les-Ponts, Metz, Lorraine ; Howard 

 MouNTJOY Hallett, 13 Earl Road, Penarth, Glamorgan ; 

 A. D. Imms, D.Sc, B.A., F.L.S., Forest Zoologist to the Govt, 

 of India, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, U.P., India ; 

 Nigel Jardine, 2 Castle Street, Ashford, Kent ; Harold 

 H. King, Govt. Entomologist, Gordon College, Khartoum, 

 Sudan ; Jal Phirozshah Mullan, M.A., Asst. Professor of 

 Biology, St. Xavier's College, Chunam Kiln Road, Grant 

 Road, Bombay, India ; E,dward J. Paterson, Fairholme, 

 Crowborough ; W. Rait-Smith, 86 Gladstone Street, Aber- 

 tillery, Monmouthshire; and Dr. Adalbert Seitz, 59 Bismarck- 

 strasse, Darmstadt, Germany, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Portraits of Ex- Presidents. 



The President announced that he had received portraits of 

 Professor Raphael Meldola, and Mr. F. Merrifield since 

 the last meeting, and thanks were voted to the donors. 



