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in respect of sex, females heterozygous. — Mr. J. R. Tomlin, examples 

 of Micropepliis ccelatus, Er., taken on marshy ground last April, near 

 Cloghane, Co. Kerry, by Dr. Norman Joy and himself, an interesting 

 addition to a small genus, so far i-eported only from Germany and 

 Sweden. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff, a number of specimens of Coccinella 

 11-punctata, L., from the White Nile, taken during a migratory flight 

 which lasted from 4.50 p.m. till nearly 6 p.m. ; also a Scarabcsics taken * 

 by him on the edge of the desert, within half a mile of the Sphinx, 

 belonging to the Arabian species S. compressicornis. — Prof. E. S. 

 Poulton, E.R.S., made the following exhibits : — (a) a beautifully carved 

 scarab of about the sixth century B.C., from Upper Egypt, apparently 

 copied from ScarabcBUs sacer ; (5) species of two dili'erent genera of 

 Coccinellida taken in cop. at Tubney, Berks ; (c) a collection of 

 Diptera from Oxford and the New Forest, with observations and 

 captured by Mr. A. H. Hamm ; {d) an example of the rare Castniid 

 moth, Castnia therapon, Kollar (a Brazilian species) taken flying in 

 his conservatory at Broadstone, Dorset, by Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S.; 

 (e) a series of forty-nine females and seven males of llypoUmnas 

 misippus from British East Africa, to illustrate the heridarity ten- 

 dencies of the female forms ; (/) examples of Mlillerian mimicry in 

 EuplaincE, ; [g) and a collection of small moths captured at sea, one 

 hundred and ninety miles from, and south-east of, the Cochin China 

 coast, sent to him with a short note by Mr. F. Muir and Mr. J. C. 

 Kershaw, Fellows of the Society. Prof. Poulton then made some 

 observations on the use of the saw of the sawfly during oviposition, 

 supplementary to the discussion on the subject at a previous meeting, 

 and also communicated " Notes on the Life-History of Aulacodes 

 simplicialis, Snell," by Mr. Muir and Mr. Kershaw. — Mr. T. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera common to the African, 

 Indian and Australian regions, some of them occurring in America 

 also, and remarked that it was incredible that, being extremely 

 variable, they should retain their specific facies over the wide area of 

 distribution in the absence of some fairly constant syngamic connec- 

 tion. He also showed a collection from Ceylon of black ants and 

 their mimics; a mass of the Cingalese bug, Dysderns cingulatus, 

 resembling a flower ; and an example of the Coprid beetle, Scarahaus 

 gangeticus taken on the wing carrying small winged Diptera of the 

 Borboridae. He suggested that the flies were rather passengers in 

 search of their pabulum than parasites. — Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, 

 F.L.S., communicated a paper " On some new and little-known Neo- 

 tropical Lycgenidse." — Mr. Claude Morley, F.Z.S., communicated 

 "A Description of the Superior Wing of the Hymenoptera, with 

 a view to give a simple and more certain Nomenclature to the Alary 

 System of Jurine." — Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., read a 

 paper " On the Colonization of New Nests of Ants by Myrmeco- 

 philous Coleoptera." — Mr. F. Enock, F.L.S., read a paper on " New 

 Genera of British Mymaridae (Hahday)." — H. Rowland-Brown, 

 M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— May ISth, 1909.— Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. F. Coulsden, of Stoke Newington, was elected a member. 



