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Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. "Further Notes on two Osmia 

 species of the Adunca group," by the Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A. 

 " A Few Words respecting Insects and their Natural Enemies," 

 by Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. The Eev. 

 F. D. Morice M.A., then delivered an address " On the Saws of 

 Saw-flies," illustrated by many lantern slides prepared and arranged 

 by him. 



Wednesdaij, March l&tli, 1910.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M. A., M.D., F.E.S., 

 President, in the chair.— Dr. Malcolm Burr, D.Sc, gave an account 

 of his reception in St. Petersburg by the Entomological Society of 

 Eussia, to whom he had presented the address of congratulation, 

 published at the last meeting.— Mr. Edmond Wace Carlier, M.S.C., 

 M.D., F.E.S.B., of the University, Birmingham; Mr. Herbert Alfred 

 Green, of the Central Fire Station, Durban, Natal; Mr. Philip 

 Harwood, of 23, Northgate End, Bishop's Stortford ; Mr. J. Hen- 

 derson, of Chfton, Ashbourne, Derby ; Mr. Lionel Leslie Jacobs, 

 Shelford, Copers Cope Eoad, Beckenham ; Mr. William Laidlaw, 

 73, Endsleigh Gardens, Ilford, Essex, and 74, Great Tower Street, 

 E.G.; Mr. H. S. Leigh, of the University, Manchester; Mr. F. 

 Graham Millar, of " Seafield," Batu Tiga, Selangor; Mr. Francis 

 AUcock Oldaker, M.A., of the Eed House, Haslemere ; Mr. Aiyappa 

 Eaman Pillai, Trivandrum, India, and 13, Buccleuch Place, Edin- 

 burgh; Professor Eeginald Crundall Punnett, M.A., of Gonville and 

 Caius College, Cambridge; Mr. James M. Williams, F.E.Scott. G.S., 

 of the Howard Motor Garage, Cardiff, and Canford Cliffs, Hants, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society.— Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe 

 exhibited examples of Cremastog aster sentellaris hermaphrodites, 

 Colohopsis truncatus hermaphrodites, and a beetle, Formicornus 

 pedestris, a good mimic of the latter ant, all taken in virgin cork at 

 Kew, May, 1909. — Commander J. J. Walker, E.N., a living specimen 

 of Holoparamecus caularum, Aube, taken commonly in refuse hay- 

 stack at Water Eaton, Oxon, on March 14th.— Mr. H. M. Edelsten 

 brought for exhibition photographs of the anal appendages of Tapi- 

 nostola hellmanni, T. concolor, and T.fulva, showing their remarkable 

 similarity ; also ova of the same species in situ. The photographs 

 were the work of Mr. H. Main and Mr. A. E. Tonge.— Mr. G. W. 

 Nicholson showed a specimen of Dyschirius angustatus, Ahrens, 

 from Littlestone, Kent, taken in July, 1906 ; two specimens of Bem- 

 hidium 4-pustulatum, Dj., taken at Pulborough in June, 1909; and 

 two specimens of Conosoma bipimctatum, Gr., found by Mr. Jennings 

 and himself at Broxbourne, Essex, in January of this year. — Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman exhibited series of Gallophnjs avis, Chapm., bred this 

 spring, together with series of G. riibi for comparison, and pointed out 

 the principal superficial differences between the two species. — Mr. 

 J. W. Tutt read a paper on the several forms of Hydrcccia occurring 

 in Britain, and illustrated the superficial differences where discover- 

 able, and the marked difference in the anal appendages of the several 

 species, Hydroscia nictitans, H.paludis, H. lucens, and H. crinanensis. 

 He made an appeal to Fellows to try, during the coming season, to 

 obtain eggs, larvae and pupae of the four British species for com- 

 parison, and to discover, if possible, structural differences in their 



