and three sparrows that were on the ground leapt into the 

 air and, fluttering clumsily, attempted to catch it; the 

 butterfly easily evaded the birds. 



Life -HISTORIES of some Coleoptera. — Mr. H. Main ex- 

 hibited Lantern Slides illustrating the life-history of the 

 Beetles Cojms lunaris, Onthophagits vacca, and NecropJiorus 

 humator. 



Papers. 



The following papers were read : — 



" A contribution to our knowledge of the Life-history of 

 the Stick Insect, Carausius morosus, Br.," by George Talbot,, 

 F.E.S. 



" A Record of Insect Migration in Tropical America," by 

 C. B. WiLLiAars, M.A., F.E.S. 



" The Geographical Factor in Mimicry," by F. A. Dixey, 

 M.A., M.D., F.Ii.S., etc. 



Wednesday, April 7th, 1920, 



Mr. W. G. Sheleon, F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Death of a Fellow. 

 The death was announced of the Eev. Stephen Henry 

 GoRHAM, the oldest Fellow of the Society, who joined it as far 

 back as 1855. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. C. F. C. Beeson, Indian Forest Service, Forest Recorder 

 Institute, Dehra Dun, U.P., India; Capt. Bushell, Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology, Natural History Museum, S. Kensing- 

 ton, S.W. 7; Major H. C. Gunton, M.B.E., Hobart, Gerrard's 

 Cross, Bucks; Messrs. Owen Huth-Walters, M.A., Knoll 

 Cottage, Ufford, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Percy I. Lathy„ 

 Curator to Mme. Horrack-Fournier, 90, Boulevard Malesherbes, 

 and 70, Boulevard August-Blanqui, Paris ; and Prof. Benedicto 

 Raymundo, Director of the Museum of the Agricultural 

 SocietyJof|Rio di Janeiro, 76, rua Senador Alencar, Rio di 

 Janeiro, Brazil,^were elected Fellows of the Society. 



