158 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, May 6th, 

 1908.— Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the chair.— Mr. Thomas 

 Godfrey Andros, Ph.D., F.Z.S., of Wilton House, 31, St. Saviour's 

 Eoad, Jersey ; Mr. Chourappa Clietti, Assistant Curator of the 

 Government Museum at Bangalore, India ; Mr. Frederick Charles 

 Eraser, I.M.S., M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of Trichinopoly, India; 

 Mr. Walter M. Giffard, of Keeaunoki Street, Honolulu, Hawaiian 

 Islands ; and Mr. Alfred Vander Hedges, of 42, Kensington Park 

 Gardens, W., were elected Eellows of the Society. — Mr. A. H. Jones 

 exhibited an example of the melanic ah. nigra of Tephrosia consonaria 

 bred from a wild female taken near Maidstone, by Mr. W. Goodwin ; 

 and a living larva of Sesia andreiiiformis feeding in the stem of 

 Vibitrnum lantana. — Mr. R. Shelford bi'ought for exhibition a number 

 of specimens of insects in amber. They showed several forms closely 

 allied to those of existing insects : one orthopteron being very near 

 to Ectobia lapponica. — The President, a living example of Blatta 

 found among bananas from Mexico. Mr. Shelford said he thought 

 the species to be Pandora niveus, Lin. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a living 

 larva of Niidaria senex, and living larva and pupa of Calligema 

 7mniata. He drew special attention to the clubbed bristles on the 

 former as being incurved and most curious. — Mr. O. E. Janson, a 

 white aberration of Epinephele jurtina, taken in Holme Park, Sussex, 

 in June, 1904. — Professor E. B. Poulton read a letter from Mr. S. A. 

 Neave giving an account of the bulbul feeding its young with various 

 " unpalatable " species. He also exhibited a collection of Asilids and 

 their prey from the Tring Museum, and a series of Neptis from Mada- 

 gascar to illustrate the specialization of this butterfly in its island 

 form. A discussion on the developments of coloration in insular 

 forms of this and other Lepidoptera follow^ed, in which Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, the Rev. G. Wheeler, Lt.-Col. N. 

 Manders, and other Fellows participated. — Lieut. -Col. Manders, a 

 collection of butterflies from Bourbon demonstrating examples of 

 mimicry and the effects of the interaction of species. He concluded 

 by describing the physical characteristics of the island, and said that 

 the area favourable for the existence of Euploeas was extremely small, 

 and as the larvae of goudoti and euphon fed on the same plants there 

 was in all probability a struggle for existence set up in which the 

 invader proved the stronger and eventually exterminated its rival. 

 In the discussion which followed Professor Poulton remarked that in 

 the neighbouring island of Rodriques there was a species of Euploia 

 (desjardhisi) greatly resembling euphon, and no doubt a geographical 

 race of that species, and this would also suggest that euphon formerly 

 existed in Bourbon. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe showed an example of 

 the beetle Xantholinus distans, Kr., taken at Helton, near Dumfries, 

 on May 1, a species new to the British list. — Mr. W. J. Lucas 

 showed a glow-worm found at Oxshott on May 4, inside the shell of 

 the snail Helix cantiana. There was no doubt that the larva was 

 feeding on the snail, for on breaking away parts of the shell he found the 

 moist remains of it near the apex. He also brought for exhibition the 

 male, female, and nymph of the dragonfly Oxygastra curtisii, first de- 



