28 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Wednesdaij, December 1th, 1904. — Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. Horace A. Byatt, B.A., of 

 the Colonial Office; and Mr. J. C. Winterscale, F.Z.S., of Karangan, 

 Kedah, Penang, Straits Settlements, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Mr. Rowland Brown, one of the Secretaries, read the list of 

 Fellows recommended for election as Officers, and to serve on the 

 Council for the ensuing year ; and there being no additional Fellows 

 proposed, they were nominated accordingly. — Mr. H. St. J. Donis- 

 thorpe exhibited Quedms nigrocosndeus, taken by Mr. H. C. Dollman in 

 a rabbit-hole at Ditchliug, Sussex, this being the fourth recorded 

 British specimen. — Professor T. Hudson Beare, a specimen of the rare 

 Longicoru, Tetropinm. castaneum, L., taken about two years ago in the 

 vicinity of the Hartlepool Quays, and probably introduced from abroad. 

 — Mr. G. J. Arrow, a series of the Lamellicorn beetles from the 

 Burchell Collection, and remarked that Burchell, at the time of their 

 capture some seventy years ago, had already noted their powers of 

 producing musical sound. — Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, drawings illus- 

 trating the development of the front wing in the pupa of the tusser 

 silk-moth, showing the relation of the trachefe to the veins, prepared 

 for exhibition in the Natural History Museum. He also exhibited 

 some coffee-berries from Uganda, injured by a small beetle belonging 

 to the Scolytidte. The beetles laid their eggs in the berries when 

 young and green. The mature berries were often found with little of 

 the inside left. Mr. Waterhouse further exhibited two coleopterous 

 larvffi from the Burchell Collection from Brazil, submitted to him for 

 determination by Prof. Poulton. One was a heteromerous larva two 

 inches long, much resembling the larva of Helops. The more interest- 

 ing one was noted by Burchell to be luminous, and appeared to be the 

 larva of an Elaterid, but the prothorax was unusually large, and the 

 head retracted beneath. — Commander J. J. Walker, the type-specimen 

 of Haplothorax burchelli, G. R. Waterhouse, from the Hope Collection, 

 Oxford University Museum. This very remarkable Carabid was dis- 

 covered by Burchell in St. Helena. It is now exceedingly rare, if not 

 entirely extinct, in its sole locality, the late Mr. Wollastou, during his 

 visit to the island in 1875-6, having entirely failed to find the beetle 

 alive, although its dead and mutilated remains were often met with. 

 — The President, cases showing the results of breeding experiments 

 upon Papilio cenea conducted by Mr. G. F. Leigh, who had for the 

 first time bred the trophonius form from trophonius itself; also a photo- 

 graph, taken by Mr, Alfred Robinson, of the Oxford University 

 Museum, showing the Xylocopid model and its Asilid mimic exhibited by 

 Mr. E. E. Green at a previous meeting. The example was particularly 

 interesting, inasmucli as Mr. Green's record of the mimic circling 

 round its model tended to support the view that the bee is the prey of 

 the fly. — Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., read a paper on Erebia palarica, 

 n. sp., and E. sUjgne, chiefly in regard to its association with E. cvias 

 in Spain. Describing E. palarica, he said it was a new species from 

 the Cantabrian range, phylogenetically a recent offshoot of EJ. stygne, 

 and the largest and most brilliant in coloring of all the known mem- 

 bers of the family. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., gave an account of his 

 entomological experiences during a tour through India and Ceylon, 

 Oct. 10th, 1903, to March 26th, 1904, illustrating his remarks by 



