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Nomination of Officers and Council for 1906. 

 Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, one of the Secretaries, again read 

 the list of Fellows nominated to act as Officers and as other 

 Members of the Council for 190G. 



Auditors. 



The President announced that the following Fellows had 

 been appointed Auditors of the Society's Accounts for the 

 current year. Mr. R. Adkin, Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. R. W. 

 Lloyd, Mr. L. B. Prout, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, and Mr. 

 R. South. 



Exhibitions. 



Dr. K. Jordan exhibited a series of varieties of the 

 Mediterranean Carabus morbillosus, showing all intergradations 

 from the ordinary morbillosus with broad prothorax and costate 

 and catenulate elytra to the Moroccan aumonti which has a 

 narrow thorax and smooth elytra. It is one of the most 

 striking cases of geographical variability. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe showed specimens of Ptinus 

 pusillus, Sturm, recently discovered in a corn factor's shop at 

 Edmonton. This species, which is common in France and 

 Germany, has not been recorded hitherto in Britain. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited (1) a hermaphrodite Proctotrupid 

 belonging to the Spilomicrinse., Aspn., probably one of the 

 Ceraphroninse — a hermaphrodite of Diapria verticillata is men- 

 tioned in Marshall's Catalogue, but the specimen exhibited 

 appeared to belong to the other subfamily of the Biapriidee ; 

 (2) a sand-wasp without wings taken by Mr. Poole, running 

 on a beech trunk, and probably Didinels lunicomis, Fab. ; (3) 

 the $ specimen of Apion semivittatum, Gyll. (germari, Walt.), 

 taken many years ago by Mr. Walton near the Tivoli Gardens, 

 Margate, together with a $ specimen of the same species 

 discovered while sweeping long grass near the Chequers Inn, 

 Deal, on September 26th, 1904, on which occasion also Mr. 

 Tomlin had made a similar capture. 



Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited (1) a 3 and $ example of 

 the Dipteron Helophilus transfugus, L., taken from thistle- 

 heads in the marshes at Edmonton last July, and (2) a 



