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SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, Nov. IQth, 

 1908.— Mr. H. Eowlancl-Brown, M.A., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 —Dr. Millais Culpin, M.B. (Lend.), F.E.C.S., of the Palace Hotel, 

 Shanghai : Mr. E. M. Eustace, of Challacombe Eectory, Parracombe, 

 E.S.O., North D^von; Captain F. H. Hardy, E.A.M.C, Medical 

 Officer of the British Central Africa Protectorate ; Mr. Jens M. A. 

 Knudsen, of Noerre Nebel, Denmark ; Captain Leonard Paul, of 

 Brook House, Eastry, S.O., Kent; and Mr. B. C. S. Warren, of The 

 Avenue, Amersham, Bucks, were elected Fellows of the Society. — 

 Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited examples of the rare weevil Procas 

 armillatus, taken in Sherwood Forest in 1908 ; and specimens of 

 Phyllobius argentatiis and P. maculicornis with deciduous mandibles 

 attached. — Mr. P. de la Garde sent for exhibition specimens of the 

 following new and rare Coleoptera: — Laccohius imrpurascens, New- 

 bery, recently described as new to science; CeutJwrrhynchus parvu- 

 Itis ; and Phyllotreta diademata, recent additions to the British list ; 

 Arena octavii, Sibiiiia sodalis, Neuraphes longicollis, CardwpJiorus 

 eqitisiti, rare and local species ; and a species of Choleva, right-hand 

 maxillary palpus in triplicate. — Mr. W. S. Sheldon exhibited a speci- 

 men of Anthrocera achiUece, from Oban, one of those taken by Mr. 

 Eenton and recently recorded as British, with forms of the species 

 from the South of France; and of A. filipendulce and A. exulans 

 from Scotland, for comparison. — Mr. E. M. Prideaux, a gynandro- 

 morphous specimen of Lyccena zephyrus var. lycidas from the Simp- 

 Ion, taken in July last ; an example of Ghrysophanus alciphron var. 

 gordius ab. female viidas, Lowe, from below Salvan in the Ehone 

 Valley ; and a striking aberration of Melitaa didyvia with the spots 

 of the lower wings coalescent in thick splashes, captured near Berisal 

 in July, 1905. — Mr. A. Harrison, the resulting series obtained by cross 

 pairings of successive broods of Pier is napi var. hryonice. He said 

 that as a demonstration of Mendelian proportions they were quite 

 negative. So far it would appear that the bryonicB characters were 

 not transmitted by the male, but in an exaggerated degree by the 

 female. — Mr. L. W. Newman read a note on the life-history, and ex- 

 hibited examples, of the imago of Polygonia c-album. He said that 

 his observations led him to conclude that the first twelve to twenty 

 ova laid by the hybernated females are the only ova which produce 

 the var. hutchinsoni, and that this variety is the only form which 

 pairs and produces the second brood. — Dr. Karl Jordan exhibited 

 examples of Charaxes zoolina, and its nearest allies C. betsiviiscraka 

 and betaniinena from Madagascar, zoolina and neanthes from East 

 Africa, phanara and ekinkei from West Africa, and kahldeni and home- 

 yeri from West Africa. This exhibit confirmed the result of Mr. G. F. 

 Leigh's breeding experiment mentioned by Professor E. B. Poulton 

 at the last meeting. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of the genera 

 Golaenis, Heliconius and Pereute, to illustrate a mimetic relation 

 between G. telesiphe, Hew., H. telesiphe, Doubl., and P. antodyca, 

 Boisd. — The Eev. G. Wheeler, a pair of Melitcea dictynna var. dictyn- 

 no'ides Horm., received from Herr Hormuzaki. They are the con- 

 verse of M. britomartis, having the upper side of dictynna but the 

 Vinder much nearer to parthenie. This form is usually described as a 



