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Januanj 21s«, 190L— The President in the chair. Drs. T. H. 

 Wilkins, Small Heath ; and W. Wright Mason, University College, 

 were elected members. Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a series of Pelecocera 

 tricincta from Bournemouth, where he had taken it fairly commonly 

 this year, more so than anyone had previously done ; also Anthrax 

 fenestrata from Bournemouth, A. paniscus from West Runton, Norfolk, 

 and A. fiava (?) from Bournemouth, all taken this year by him, though 

 he had never met with a specimen of the genus before ; also all three 

 species of Didea — alneti from Sutton and Wyre Forest, intermedia from 

 Sutton, Audi fasciata from Sutton, Wyre, and Poole. Mr. A. D. Imms 

 exhibited Slnodendron cylindriciun from an old oak at Moseley. Mr. 

 C. J. Wainwright, a series of Stratiomys chameleon from West Runton, 

 Norfolk, taken last July and August." Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a 

 drawer full of Epinephele ianira and its allies. 



February ith (Annual Meeting). — Mr. R. C. Bradley in the chair. 

 The Annual Report of the Council was read, showing an increased 

 number of members in the Society ; and the Treasurer presented his 

 annual statement, showing a small balance in hand. Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker was re-elected President, and Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis 

 was elected President for the ensuing year; the remaining officers 

 being as before. The following were exhibited : — By Mr. R. C. Bradley, 

 Hymenoptera of the genus Ammophila, three species — sabulosa, hirsuta, 

 and catnpestris — all from Bournemouth, where all three species occurred 

 together last August, the two former in abundance, the latter less 

 commonly. By Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, rare Diptera taken in 

 1900; Oxycera pulcheUa from West Runton, Norfolk ; Didea fasciata 

 and Melanostoma hyalinatum from Wyre Forest. By Mr. G. W. Wynn, 

 a long series of Epunda lutulenta taken at sugar in Wyre Forest last 

 autumn ; they were very constant in coloration, all being dark, but 

 not black, specimens. By Mr. A. D. Imms, Aeronycta alni bred from 

 a pupa found under rotten palings between Hall Green and Solihull. 

 By Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, a collection of Coleoptera taken in only 

 three hours' collecting in Bedfordshire at Christmas last ; the most 

 noteworthy capture was Bayous cylindrus, of which species he obtained 

 three specimens ; Agabm nebulosus was present in thousands in fine 

 condition. 



February 18th. — A meeting of a social chai-acter was held at the 

 house of the President, by the kind invitation of himself and Mrs. 

 Bethune-Baker. Tlie members turned up in force, and very much 

 enjoyed looking through the large collection of palaaarctic and other 

 Lepidoptera, formed in part by Mr. Bethune-Baker and in part by the 

 late Dr. Jordan. — Colbran J. Wainwright. Hun. Sec. 



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VoN Lagerheim (G.). (1900. Ent. Tidskr. ; see also Bot. Centralbl. 



Ixxxii, 334-6. and -Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc. 577). 



This paper deals with the cultivation of Septdsporium myrmscophilum 



by the ant Lasius fuUginosus, Latr., in Swedeu. " The point of interest 



is that the motive appears to be different from that in the other known 



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