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March 18th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley, 

 Durban, Natal ; Mr. J. C. DoUman, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, W. ; 

 Mr. W. W. Rowlands, Lickey Grange, near Bromsgrove ; and Prof. J. 

 H. Taylor, M.A., The Yorkshire College, Leeds, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. — The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited, with drawings, a dissected 

 gynandromorphous specimen of a bee (Osmia fulviventris, Panz.) sent to 

 him (with the gynandromorphous Eucera exhibited at the last meeting, 

 and several other similar monstrosities) by M. Jean Vachal, of Argentat, 

 France. The species is a common one ; whether that called fulviventris 

 in the British list is a variety of it, or a distinct species, is not yet finally 

 decided. — Mr. A. Bacot exhibited a number of specimens of Malaco- 

 soma nenstria x castrensis in various stages, including a series of six 

 male and sixteen female imagines reared during 1902 from one batch 

 of ova laid by a female castrensis, which had been mated with a male 

 neustria, and two females reared from another batch of ova the result 

 of a similar cross ; also blown larvae of hybrid parentage, and twigs 

 showing attempts at ovipositing on the part of female hybrids that had 

 paired with hybrid males of the same brood ; also a series of M. neustria, 

 M. castrensis, and the hybrid moths reared during 1901 for com- 

 parison. The females attempted egg-laying, adopting the position and 

 motions of normal females of castrensis, but at each opening of the 

 ovipositor they produced only the small drop of cement which accom- 

 panies the egg in the normal oviposition of the parent species, result- 

 ing in a more or less perfect spiral band of cement upon the twigs. 

 Perhaps the most interesting feature of the exhibit was the great vari- 

 ability shown by the specimens comprising the larger of the 1902 brood 

 compared with the remarkable uniformity of the hybrid moths reared 

 during the previous year. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited speci- 

 mens of Trimium brevicorne, Reich., from Chiddingfold, Surrey, an un- 

 usually southern locality for this species. — Mr. C. P. Pickett, specimens 

 of Hybernia leucophtBaria and Phiijalia pedaria taken at Chingford, and 

 ova of Endromis versicolora on birch twigs, laid March 16th. The 

 parent moths paired the day before at 1.20 p.m., and remained in cop. 

 thirty-three and a-half hours. The female in the act of oviposition 

 prefers to rest head downwards, and sometimes uses the back legs for 

 arranging the ova. — Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited a long series of a 

 series of Cneorrhinus [^ pyriformis) from Piedrahita, Spain, and called 

 attention to the great dissimilarity between the sexes, and also to the 

 possibility of the females being dimorphic, one form clothed with green 

 scales, and the other with grey scales like the male. He also exhibited 

 Durcadion dejeani, Chevr., from the Sierra de Bejar, a species peculiar 

 to that district. — Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., exhibited a dragonfly 

 belonging to a small species of the genus Orthetrum, attacked by 

 an Asilid fly almost as large as itself, taken in Persia in June, 1902, 

 by Mr. H. F. Witherby. The fly had inserted its proboscis at the 

 junction of the head and prothorax, a vulnerable point. He also 

 exhibited a female specimen of a large ^Eschnid dragonfly, Hemianax 

 ephippiyer, Burm., captured in a street at Devonport, on Feb. 24th, 

 1903. The species has once been observed on the Continent as far 

 north as Brussels. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., exhibited seasonal 

 forms of Precis antilope, parent and offspring, bred in 1902 by Mr. G. 

 A. K. Marshall in South Africa, showing the remarkable dimorphism 



