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Wednesday, October 5th, 1905. 

 Mr. F. Merrifield, President, in the Chair. 



Election of a Fellow. 



Mr. J. R. Davidson, of Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Obituary. 



The decease was announced of Mr. John William Douglas, 

 the oldest Fellow of the Society, who was elected in 1845 ; 

 Mr. George Bowdler Buckton, and Mr. Ambrose Quail. 



Honorary Degree. 



The President said that since the last meeting the 

 University of Oxford had conferred upon Commander J. J. 

 Walker, R.N., one of the Secretaries, the degree of M.A. 

 honoris causa for his services to entomological science. After 

 the announcement, which was received with loud applause, 

 Commander Walker thanked the Fellows present for the kind 

 way in which they had expressed their approval and interest. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Edward Harris showed some living larvae of the Lon- 

 gicorn beetle Cordylomera suturcdis, Chevr., taken from a log 

 of mahogany imported from the Sekondi district of the Gold 

 Coast, together with the perfect insect, which was dead at the 

 time the discovery was made. 



Mr. A. T. Rose exhibited a remarkable melanic specimen of 

 Catocala nupta taken by Mr. Lewis in his garden at Hornsey, 

 N., in September. The coloration of the lower wings was of a 

 dull brown, and all the markings of the upper wings were 

 strongly intensified. Mr. J. H. Carpenter said that a some- 

 what similar form had been taken by the late Mr. Mark Winkley 

 at Mitcham, Surrey, on August 22, 1892. (Cp. Entomologist, 

 xxv, p. 243.) 



proc. ent. soc. lond., iv. 1905. D 



