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the Desert Region extends from W. Africa to India. He 

 also remarked tliat the Egyptian flora was dependent on 

 the Nile, and had consequently wandered out of its proper 

 region. This would partly account for the presence of a 

 desert fauna so far up the Nile as Dr. LongstafE had found it. 



Several other Fellows also gave instances of species which 

 had been found at widely different points of this extensive 

 desert range. 



Dr. r. A. DiXEY remarked that a second species of Papilio 

 had been taken on the White Nile. 



Mr. G. A. K. Marshall observed with regard to the great 

 number of specimens of Teracolus in comparison with the 

 scarcity of individuals of other groups, that wherever this 

 genus was abundant, even in other than desert areas, he had 

 always found that there was very little else in the way of 

 Rhopalocera. 



Wednesday, December 4th, 1912. 



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



Election of a Fellow. 

 Mr. C. A. Foster, Worcestershire Regiment, Beech wood, 

 Iffley, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



OhiUtary. 



The President announced in a few sympathetic words the 

 death of Mr. W. F, Kirby, formerly Honorary Secretary of 

 the Society. 



Nomination of Auditors. 



The President announced that he had nominated as Auditors 

 for this year's accounts the following six Fellows : Members 

 of Council, Messrs. R. Adkin, H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, 

 and Stanley Edwards ; Fellows not on the Council, Messrs. 

 J. E. Collin, R. W. Lloyd, and C. 0. Waterhouse. 



Prof. Schulze's "■ Noriienclator." 

 The President read a letter forwarded from the Linneau 

 Society asking for subscriptions towards the expenses of Prof. 



