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Wied., which show a striking resemblance when on the wing to the 

 large and powerfully armed Scoliid wasps so common throughout 

 Ceylon; a red spider found on a "bilimbi" tree {Averrhoa hilimhi) ; 

 some newly-hatclied Mantids closely resembling, both in colour, size, 

 and the quick jerky movements, the common leaf-nesting ant, 

 Oecophylla smaragdina; examples of a small Pyralid motli, Syngamia 

 floridalis, when flying exactly like a Coccinnellid beetle; and a yellow- 

 spotted Eeduviid bug, Acanthasins quinquesinnosa, Fabr., an interest- 

 ing case of warning coloration common to various Carabid beetles 

 found in the same locality and situations (under logs, &c.). 



Wednesday, June 2nd, 1909. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., 

 President, in the chair. Mr, Frank Price Jepson, of Pembroke 

 College, Cambridge and Thanet Lodge, Bromley, Kent ; Mr. Ernest 

 Charles Chubb, of the Ehodesia Museum, Buluwayo, South Africa ; 

 Mr. John F. Musham, of 53, Brook Street, Selby, Yorkshire ; and Mr. 

 Oscar Cecil Silverlock, of " Allington," Burbage Koad, Heme Hill, S.E., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. Selwyn Image exhibited an 

 example of the North American sawfly, Sirex caudatus, Cresson, 

 bred from a larva found at Highbury in a piece of wood, together 

 with photographs of the larva and its galleries by Mr. Hugh Main. — 

 The Eev. G. Wheeler brought for exhibition a series of Anthocharis 

 tages var. hellezina from Aix-en-Provence taken this year, and of 

 A. helia from the South of France for comparison; also a series of 

 Lyccsna cor y don with dark under sides' — the typical form in the south. 

 — Lord Walsingham showed two set examples and pupal cases of 

 Holocacista rivillei, Stn., called by the late Mr. Stainton " The lost 

 Pleiad," because originally described in 1750 and not again found 

 before 1870, mining leaves of the grape-vine. — Dr. T. A. Chapman 

 exhibited specimens of Callophrys avis, a new species from the South 

 of France, first taken by him at Hyeres three years ago, and in the 

 following year, and now obtained by him this year from the Pyren^es- 

 Orientales ; and two examples of Pararge cegeria from Southern 

 France, with a typical Southern specimen {cegeria) and an English 

 one {agar ides), for comparison, the French form being as far from 

 cegeria in one direction as cegerides is in the opposite, and possibly a 

 Mendelian variety, — Dr. T. P. Lucas, who was present as a visitor, 

 brought for exhibition a box containing thirty-one species of butterflies 

 taken by him in the neighbourhood of Durban in two hours. He 

 also gave a short account of the abundance of Lepidoptera at Bris- 

 bane, Queensland. — Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited examples of the 

 myrmecophilous beetle, Hetarius ferrugineus, 01., from Boxhill, a 

 species not recorded from Britain for forty-six years. — Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthoi-pe, specimens of Formica exsecta (one female and two herma- 

 phrodites) from Aviemore, pointing out tliat it had never been recorded 

 from Scotland or the North before ; specimens of Formica rufa-iyratensis 

 (two females and two hermaphrodites), pseudogynes and micrergates, 

 from Nethey Bridge, Inverness-shire, remarking that this was the 

 dominant form there. — Mr, L, Doncaster, a drawer of Abraxas 

 grossidariata and its var. lacticolor, illustrating breeding experiments, 

 which showed that lacticolor is a Mendelian recessive to grossidariata, 

 and that the sex-determinants also behave as Mendelian characters, 

 femaleness being dominant ; and that males are homozygous (pure) 



