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and sixty odd miles, much of which was hterally, " up hill and down 

 dale," admirably; hardly a pin or brace was loose. Of course I had 

 some " packing," consisting of some of my clothes outside the 

 " drying-house " to lessen tlie jolting. I should Hke to add that I 

 am desiring a companion for a three months' collecting trip to the 

 West Indies, starting in May. — Walter Dannatt, F.Z.S., &c. ; 

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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, February Srd, 

 1909.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair.— The 

 President announced that he had nominated Dr. Karl Jordan, Ph.D., 

 Dr. George Blundell Longstaff, M.A., M.D., and Mr. Charles Owen 

 Waterhouse, Vice-Presidents for the Session 1909-10.— Mr. Leopold 

 Arnon Vidler, of the Camelite Stone House, Eye, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. — The President announced the resignation of 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., as a member of the 

 Council, and the election of Professor Thomas Hudson Beare, F.E.S.E., 

 to serve in his place. — Dr. K. Jordan exhibited some Oriental 

 Papihos illustrating polymorphism, and demonstrated that in P. clytia 

 and P. dissimilis we have to do with one dimorphic species ; and that 

 P. paradoxa and P. caunus also are forms of one species only. — Mr. 

 O. E. Janson showed a cockroach and a beetle from the Celebes, 

 exhibiting a reniarkable case of mimicry; the former apparently an 

 undescribed species of Prasoplecta, the latter identified as Calo- 

 phora formosa, Crotch. — Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis sent for exhibition 

 two specimens, a male and female of Agrotis vestigialis, Eott., from 

 Purbeck, Dorset. When working the sandhills he noticed the dead 

 female apparently sitting on the grass, and then noticed that she had 

 a part of the male appendages attached to her. He then found the 

 male, which a common earwig was busily engaged in devouring. 

 The earwig, he thought, had attacked the pair in cop., but he had 

 never noticed a similar case before. Dr. T. A. Chapman felt_ it 

 impossible to accept the conclusion arrived at by the exhibitor with 

 regard to the earwig. An earwig would probably not attack a living 

 Agrotis ; if it did the Agrotis would undoubtedly repel it successfully. 

 He suggested that some accident had happened to the moths, 

 whether from some bird or beast there was no evidence to show. — 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Acridium peregrinum 

 from a swarm estimated to number 107,520,000, that visited Las 

 Palmas, Grand Canary, in October, 1908 ; also a dragonfly, Tramea 

 basilaris, a species which had occurred in such numbers on one 

 occasion in Portuguese Congo that the natives mistook them for a 

 swarm of locusts.— The Eev. F. D. Morice showed photo-micrographs 

 of the " saws " in ten British sawflies — species of the genus Dolerus. 

 After briefly alluding to the specific characters presented by them, to 

 certain points in which all alike differed from the ordinary tenon- 

 saws employed by carpenters, he invited suggestions which might 

 account for these differences. Might it be inferred, he asked, that 



