828 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



beetle, at present unidentified. — Col. J. W. Yerbury, specimens, and 

 read notes upon the deer-gadflies taken by him this year in Scotland. 



Wednesday, November 2nd, 1904. — Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., 

 D.S.C., F.Pi.S., President, in the chair. — Mr. E. A. Agar, of Domenica, 

 British West Indies: Mr.R. S. Baguall. of Winlaton-on-Tvne, Durham; 

 Mr. K. G. Blair, of 28, West Hill, Highgate, N. ; Mr. E.^A. Cockayne. 

 B.A., of 30, Bedford Court Mansions, W.C. ; Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., 

 of Twitchen, Mortehoe, R.S.O., Devon; Mr. R. A. R. Priske, of 66, 

 Chaucer Road, Acton ; and Mr. H. W. Simmonds, of 17, Aurora 

 Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a specimen of Platyphora Inbhocki, 

 Verr., a species of Phoridae parasitic upon ants, from Stokes Wood, 

 Hereford. No 'specimen has been recorded since the one originally 

 bred by the present Lord Avebury in 1875, and described for him by 

 Mr. G. H. Verrall in the ' Journal of the Linnean Society ' for 1877.* 

 Mr. P. J. Barraud exhibited an aberrant Epinephele jiutnia {janira) 

 male, taken by him this year in the New Forest, agreeing with the 

 form described by Mr. Roger Verity in the 'Entomologist,' vol. xxxvii. 

 p. 56, as ab. anommata. — Mr. J. Edwards sent for exhibition three 

 specimens of Bagous lutosux, Gyll., one found by himself on Wretham 

 Heath, Norfolk, on August 4th, 1900 — the first authentic British 

 example — and two taken in the same locality by Mr. Thouless, on May 

 22nd, 1903; also Bagous filabrirostris, Herbst., from Camber, Sussex, for 

 comparison. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited bred specimens of Hastula 

 {Epagofie, Hb. ?) hyeiana, Mill., from larvae taken at Hyeres last March, 

 and said the facts that the pale frons only have hitherto been known, 

 whereas of those bred nearly half are dark, suggest either that really 

 very few specimens are in collections — which is the most probable 

 case — or that melanism is now affectiug the species. The larvffi are 

 not uncommon at Hyeres. Before he bred the species this year a 

 single dark specimen only was known, viz. one taken by Lord Walsing- 

 ham at Gibraltar, which he named warginata, and he was in doubt 

 whether it was a var. of lujerana, or a new species. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, 

 specimens of the moths Castnia fonscolombei and Frutambulyx ganascus, 

 showing the warning and protective coloration of these species. — 

 Mr. H. W. Andrews, specimens of Kristalis cnjptaruni, F., and Didea 

 alneti, Fin., two species of uncommon Syrphidse from the New Forest. 

 Mr. Edward Harris, a brood of Hemeropldla abruptana bred by him 

 this season, together with the parent male and female ; the female, a 

 dark specimen, was taken in his garden at Upper Clapton, on May 

 25th, and the male, a normal type, at Ilford, on May 26th. Of the 

 offspring, eighteen in all, eight were females, of which four were dark 

 specimens and of normal size. Of the ten males five were dark speci- 

 mens, darker than the females, but small even for males. They were 

 smaller than the light specimens of the same brood. One of the light 

 male specimens emerged with only three wings, the left fore wmg 

 being absent. — Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., a case containing some 

 beautiful and interesting examples of Leucania favicoUir, Barrett, in- 

 cluding the varieties described by Barrett in the current volume of the 

 ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' p. 61, and, more recently, by 

 Tutt, in the ' Entomologist's Record ' for this year ; also a fine series 

 of twenty-four Caniptograimim Jiuviata, the descendants of a wild pair 



