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SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November btli, 

 1913.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. A. P. Semenoff Tian-Shanski was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow in the place of the late Prof. O. M. Eeuter. — The following 

 gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — Messrs. Hugh 

 Warren Bedford, Church Felles, Horley ; Harold S. Cheavin, F.R.M.S., 

 F.N.P.S., Clematis House, Somerset Eoad, Huddersfield ; Charles 

 Alban WiUiam Duffield, Stowting Eectory, Hythe, and Wye College, 

 Kent; W. Egmont Kirby, M.D., Hilden, 46, Sutton Court Road, 

 Chiswick, W. ; Louis Meaden, Melbourne, Dyke Road, Preston, 

 Brighton ; F. V. Bruce Miller, Livingston, N. Rhodesia ; Alexander 

 David Peacock, 137, Wingrove Gardens, and Armstrong College, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne ; H. Ananthaswamy Rao, Curator of the Government 

 Museum, Bangalore, India ; Percival Nathan Whitley, New College, 

 Oxford, and Brankwood, Halifax. — The question of the change of title 

 of the Society was opened for discussion, but the preponderance of 

 feeling appeared to be somewhat against any change. — The President 

 brought before the meeting the necessity of forming a fund for the 

 care of that portion of Wicken Fen left by the late Mr. G. H. Verrall 

 to the National Trust, and at his request Mr. Rowland-Brown 

 expressed his readiness to act as Treasurer for any subscriptions 

 given by Fellows of the Society. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited a 

 series of seventeen Thais rumina, L. (including a female of the var. 

 canteneri, Feld.), taken in March, 1913, at Ronda, and called atten- 

 tion to the characters suggestive of a distasteful butterfly. — Mr. 

 W. J. Lucas, three species of Panorpa, including a female of the scarce 

 scorpion-fly, Panorpa cognata. — Mr. H. Lupton, a specimen of Thalpo- 

 chares ostrina, taken in the middle of June, 1913, about four miles from 

 Ilfracombe. Also two specimens of Dianthoecia luteago var. ficklini, 

 taken in the middle of the same month on the coast of N. Devon. — 

 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter read notes in connection with his exhibit of 

 Epitoxa albicincta. He also exhibited a case of miscellaneous insects 

 and communicated notes upon them. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited 

 males, winged females, and a dealated female and workers of the very 

 rare ant, Soleiwpsis fugax, Latr., taken at Blackgang, Isle of Wight, on 

 August 26th, 1913. — Mr. E. E. Green, an aberrant example of 

 Pyrameis (Vanessa) indica, Herbst, from Ceylon. — Comm. J. J. 

 Walker, a female specimen of the gigantic Neuropteron, Corydalis 

 orientalis, McLach., taken by a native collector at Chuchow. — Mr. 

 L. W. Newman, the following Heterocera :— (1) Calymnia (Cosmia) 

 trapezina. A melanic female — a worn specimen taken at sugar in 

 Bexley Woods. (2) Zonosoma [Ephyra] annulata and pendidaria ; 

 a long and very varied series of both species, showing extreme light, 

 dark, and intermediate forms and one very pink Z. pendidaria. 

 (3) A series of hybrid Z. pendidaria, female, and annulata, male ; 

 specimens showing the markings of pendularia most pronounced 

 and the coloration of annulata prominent. — The following papers 

 were read : — " New or little-known Heterocera from Madagascar," by 

 Sir G. H. Kenrick, Bart., F.E.S. " The Cuhcidas of AustraUa," by 

 Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S. " Descriptions of New Species of StaphylinidaB 



