SOCIETIES. 205 



the ichneumon-fly, Rhyssa persuasoria, female, together with a 

 photograph of the living insect. The specimen was captured at 

 Coventry; hut whether that place was its natural habitat is doubtful, 

 as some packing straw from Geneva was lying in the vicinity. — Mr. 

 H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Nicholson, Mr. 

 DoUman, and himself, examples of a beetle new to science, an 

 Olophmm and Scotch specimens of Oloplirum fuscuvi, the species to 

 which it comes nearest, for comparison. The new beetle had been 

 discovered by him and Dr. Nicholson in Wicken Fen under sedge 

 refuse, and subsequently by Mr. Dollman in some numbers in the 

 same locality. — Mr. Donisthorpe pointed out the characters in which 

 it differed, and said he had described it, and proposed for it the name 

 of Oloplirum nicJiolsoni. — Mr. H. Eltringham stated that in reference 

 to his previous paper describing experiments on the edibility of 

 certain lepidopterous larvse (Trans. Ent. Soc, 1909, pp. 471-478), the 

 caterpillars there referred to as Boarmia rhomboidai'ia had proved to 

 be Odontopera hidentata. Further, that some of the moths had been 

 bred from larvte fed exclusively on ivy, and tliough similar larvae had, 

 as explained in the paper referred to, proved extremely distasteful to 

 the lizards with which he had experimented, the moths were found 

 to be palatable. His lizards having failed to survive the winter, he 

 had sent the moths to the Zoological Gardens, where Mr Pocock had 

 given one to a bird and two to some lizards {Lacerta vivid is), and all 

 of the moths were devoured at once. The result appeared to show 

 that the distastefulness of the larvae was due to the particles of the 

 food plant contained in the digestive tract. — Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A., 

 F.K.S., communicated a paper entitled "Descriptions of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera from Mauritius, and the Chagos Isles." 



Wednesday, June 1st, 1910.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., 

 President, in the chair. — The President proposed that an Address of 

 Condolence and Congratulation should be presented by the Society 

 to His Majesty King George V. on his accession to the throne. 

 The proposal was seconded by Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, one of the 

 Hon. Secretaries, and carried unanimously, all Fellows present stand- 

 ing. — Mr. Arnold Whitworth Boyd, The Alton, Altrincham, Cheshire; 

 Mr. Emile Garcke, M.I.E.E., Witton House, Maidenhead; Mr. Henry 

 Oliver Holford, Elstead Lodge, Godalming ; Count Briger Morner, 

 Consul for H. M. the King of Sweden, Sydney, New South Wales ; 

 Mr. C. W. Mason, S.E.A.C, St. Denis, Shaftesbury, Dorset; Mr. 

 Martin E. Mosely, 13, Addison Eoad, London, W. ; Mr. Robert 

 Tait, junior, Roseneath, Harboro' Road, Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire; 

 Mr. Frank Wray Terry, The Planters' Association, Honolulu, 

 Hawaiian Islands; Mr. F. V. Theobald, M.A., South Eastern 

 Agricultural College, Wye Court, near Ashford, Kent ; Mr. Charles 

 Henry Rudge, x\ssoc.M.Inst.C.E., 15, Newton Road, Bayswater, 

 W. ; and Miss Carlotta Rudge, 15, Newton Road, Bayswater, W., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. — The President announced that 

 the Conversazione, postponed from Friday, May 27th last, by reason 

 of the general mourning for his late Majesty King Edward VII., 

 would be held during the forthcoming session on some date not 

 earlier than the last week in November. — Commander J. J. Walker 



