94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, March Atli, 

 1908.— Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, President, in the chair.— Major B. F. 

 Beecher, of 2, Berkeley Villas, Pittsville, Cheltenham ; the Eev. K. 

 St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., of Eabai, Mombasa, British East Africa; 

 and Mr. Claude Rippon, M.A., of 28, Walton Street, Oxford, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. — The decease of Mr. Herbert Goss, 

 F.L.S., for many years a Secretary of the Society, was annomiced in a 

 sympathetic speech by the President. — Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited 

 a specimen of the weevil Phyllobius maciiUcornis, Germ., retaining 

 both the " false " mandibles, and another in which one of them is 

 intact, both from Enfield ; also a single example of P. urticce, De G., 

 from Cheshunt, retaining one of these appendages, the particular point 

 of interest in connection w'ith these examples being that the "false 

 mandibles " were toothed in the centre ; also a remarkalDle specimen 

 of the common Chrysomelid beetle, Sennyla halensis, L., from Deal, 

 sliowing unusual coloration of the elytra, which were blue and coppery- 

 red, instead of bright green ; and on behalf of Mr. C. J. Pool, a speci- 

 men of Otiorrliynclius tenebricosus, Herbst, from Newport, Isle of 

 Wight, and of Barynotus obscurus, F., from Gal way, Ireland ; in the first 

 of which both the pupal mandibles were toothed, and not in the second. 

 — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition OtiorrJiynchus 

 sulcatus, Polydrusus sericeus, and Osmius boliemanni with pupal man- 

 dibles. The OtiorrJiynchus was dug up in its pupal cell at Oakham in 

 1905. — The Rev. G. Wheeler showed a case containing specimens of 

 Melitfeid l^utterflies taken by him at Reazzino in Tessin, near Bellin- 

 zona, wdiich he had identified with Assmann's Melitcea aurelia var. 

 britoviartis, they being absolutely identical with the specimens so 

 labelled in the Swiss national collections at Berne. The close affinity 

 with M. dictynna made separation superficially very difficult, and 

 until all forms were reared from the ovum it would be impossible to 

 determine whether britomartis constituted a separate species or not. — 

 The following papers were communicated : — " Descriptions of New 

 Species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from South-East of Brazil," 

 by H. Dukinfield Jones, F.E.S. ; " Erebia lefebvrei and Lycmia 

 'pyrenaica," by Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. ; " A Contribution 

 to the Classification of the Coleopterous Family Dynastidae," by 

 Gilbert J. Arrow, F.E.S. ; " Hymenoptera-Aculeata Collected in 

 Algeria by the Eev. A. E. Eaton, M.A., F.Z.S. , and the Rev. 

 F. D. Morice, M.A. Part III., Anthropila," by Edward Saunders, 

 F.R.S. 



At the Special General Meeting adjourned from February 5th, the 

 proposal to raise the Life Composition from £15 15s. to £21 was 

 rejected by a majority of three votes. — H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., 

 Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. -^February ISth, 1908.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a bred series of Anticlea rubklata 

 from Devonshire, and called attention to the pale olive-brown forms 



