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MARCH 12th, 1914. 



Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, of Craven House, Northumberland Avenue, 



was elected a member. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited two extremely similar species of the 



genus Heliconius, H. aiiiaryllis form euryades and H. Injdara, 



uniformly black insects with a large red fascia on the forewings. 



Under the microscope he showed that the genitalia of the two 



species were quite distinct. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a female specimen of Gaatiopncha Hid folia 



taken at Cannock Chase on May 25th, 1913, by G. B. Oliver, from 



which he had obtained ova. He was anxiously awaiting the 



result of their hatching and development. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a nest of the bald-faced hornet, 



TV.s/)rt maridata, an American species of social wasp, from Webster, 



Mass., taken in April, 1913. Four specimens of the maker were 



included in the exhibit. The nest had been suspended in a- 



doorway. 



Dr. Chapman reported that he had had a number of syrphid 



larvae alive throughout the winter, and had fed them on aphids. 



Already several of the imagines had emerged. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited four photographs of Alenroiles showing 

 the egg cluster, nymphs and imago of A. mbi, (?) with one-spotted 



wings, on bramble; and the imago of A. brassica' with two-spotted 

 wings. All from his garden at Ashtead. He thought that the 

 Aleurodida? must be the most utterly neglected family of all the 

 British Insecta. In this country J. W. Douglas appeared to be 

 the only entomologist of the past who had paid any attention 

 to them, and his numerous brief notes in the " Ent. Mo. Mag." 

 constituted our principal literature on the subject. More recently 

 Haskell had monographed them in the " Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute," but had merely included the names of the 

 British species, his descriptions and figures having reference to 

 the New Zealand species. Douglas led one to believe that these 

 Insects were only in evidence from early summer to late autumn, 

 which may have been due to his observations being restricted to 

 these seasons. The photographs exhibited were taken from living 

 material in January and February of the present year, which 

 showed their activities were not restricted to any season. The 

 moth-like appearance of the imago is due to the wings being 

 coated with a meal-like powder, much of which is shaken off by 

 the female, possibly to prepare an area on the undersurface of the 



