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Presidents for the present Session. — Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited 

 specimens of Prodema littoralis, bred from larvae found feeding on 

 bananas at Weymouth. — Mr. C. B. Williams, a specimen of the 

 genus Acerentomon of the order Protura, taken from moss in the New 

 Forest, Hampshire. He also drew the attention of the Society to 

 the new order Zoraptera just described by Silvestri. — Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe, specimens of the ants CEcopkylla smaragdina, F., from 

 Ceylon, and CE. virescens, F., from North Queensland. These ants 

 use their larvae to spin threads and fasten the leaves of their nests 

 together. — Professor Poulton, a collection of Algerian Diptera and 

 other insects associated with them, made by Dr. Adalbert Seitz, 

 F.B.S. The specimens were chiefly taken, at Batna (about 1300 

 metres) in July, 1913. — The following papers were read : — " On the 

 Egg-laying of Trichiosoma," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 " A Eemarkable New Genus and Species of Odonata of the Legion 

 Podagrion, Sel., from North Queensland," by Kenneth, J. Morton, 

 F.E.S. " Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S. E. Brazil," by E. Dukinfield- 

 Jones, F.Z.S., F.E.S. "The Myrmecophilous Aphides of Britain," 

 by Professor F. V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S. 



Wednesday, March Uh—Uv. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 President, in the chair. — Messrs. Wm. J. von Monte Pendlebury, 

 Broadlands, Shrewsbury, and Keble College, Oxford ; Eobert Veitch, 

 7, Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh, and Francis Cardew Woodforde, B.A., 

 Market Drayton, Salop, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. H. 

 Donisthorpe and Mr. W. C, Crawley exhibited a number of polymorphic 

 forms in ants, illustrated by a chart, and read notes.— Dr. T. A. Chap- 

 man, a male and female imago of Agriades thersites, alive, bred from the 

 egg ; also two last-stage larvae. — Mr. H. Main, a gynandromorphic 

 specimen of Eriogaster lanestris, right side female, left side male, bred 

 last year at Eastbourne. — Mr. 0. E. Janson, a specimen which he 

 believed to be the female of GoliatJius luisei, Heath, hitherto unknown ; 

 also specimens of G. kirki, Gray, in which the white markings were 

 very perfectly preserved. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, at the desire of Mr. J. C. 

 Hawkshaw, F.E.S., a cocoon of Lyonetia clerkeUa, L., spun up on a 

 cherry leaf. Mr. Hawkshaw suggested that the fine silken web 

 attached to the leaf on each side of the supporting strands, and guy 

 lines by means of which the cocoon is slung up like a hammock, 

 served as a protection against ants. — Mr Champion, on behalf of Mr. 

 E. W. Morse, of Leeds, the second Bi'itish specimen of the genus 

 Eudectus, probably a variety of E. ivhitei, Sharp, from Ingleborough, 

 Yorks., and a pair of (Edemera virescens, L., from Symond's Yat, 

 Hereford. — Mr. Ernest Green, a Coccid with double anterior limb, 

 and read notes. — Mr. L. W. Newman, a fine female Lasiocampa 

 ilicifoUa taken on the wing at Cannock Chase, by Mr. G. B. Oliver, 

 on May 25th, 1913. Mr. Newman stated that the larvae in captivity 

 took readily to aspen. — Mr. A. W. Mera, two specimens of Cidaria 

 suffwnata, of an unusual form, from East Devon, received from Eev. 

 J. W. Metcalfe, who takes this form in damp woods and finds it not 

 entirely confined to one wood. — Professor Poulton stated that he had 

 just received, from Mr. E. E. Piatt, of Durban, the male and female 

 parents — both of the wahlbergi form — caught in coitu, and with their 



