20 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The Entomological Club. — A meeting was held on December 

 12th, 1912, at the Savage Club, Adelphi Terrace. Mr. H. Eowland- 

 Brown in the chair. Other members present were Mr. E. Adkin, 

 Mr. H. Donisthorpe, and Mr. Sich ; and the other guests — Professor 

 Sehvyn Image, Dr. Karl Jordan, The Eev. George Wheeler, Hon. 

 N. C. Eothschild, Mr. Bonshell, Mr. F. Gilliat, Mr. A.J.Jones (Hon. 

 Member), and Mr. W. G. Sheldon. Mr. Sich proposed and Mr. 

 Donisthorpe seconded that Professor Selwyn Image be nominated an 

 Honorary Member of the Club. This was carried ncm. con. 



We are informed that the " Verrall Supper," so successful last 

 year, will again be held at the Holborn Eestaurant during the 

 present month. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 16th, 

 1912.— The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the chair.— The 

 President stated that in pursuance of a suggestion approved by the 

 Council, he had written to most of the surviving ex-Presidents of the 

 Society for their portraits, and had already received several. Thanks 

 were voted to the donors. — The following were elected Fellows of the 

 Society :— Mrs. Ellen M. Waterfield, The Hospital, Port Sudan; 

 Messrs. Patrick Alfred Buxton, M.B.O.U., Fairhill, Tonbridge, and 

 Trinity College, Cambridge ; Alfred Noakes, The Hill, Witley, Surrey ; 

 Norman Denbigh Eiley, 94, Drakefield Eoad, Upper Tooting, S.W., 

 and British Museum (Natural History), S. Kensington, S.W. ; and 

 Henry S. Wallace, 17, Kingsley Place, Heaton-on-Tyne.- -Mr. E. B. 

 Ashby exhibited a case of Ehopalocera from the French, Swiss, and 

 Italian Alps and from Britain. — Mr. B. Williams, a specimen of an 

 unascertained species of the Protura. This order of primitive insects 

 is chiefly remarkable for the absence of antennae ; they use their 

 front pair of legs not as locomotive but as tactile organs, holding 

 them out in front of the head when walking, as if to take the place 

 of the missing antennae. Various other instances of similar adapta- 

 tion were mentioned. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, a specimen of Somatochlora 

 alpestris from Porsanger Fjord ; also a specimen of Msclma ccerulea 

 ( = borealis), from the same locality. They were captured by Mr. 

 W. G. Sheldon. — Professor Poulton brought forward a note on 

 behalf of the Eev. K. St. Aubyn Eogers, tending to show that occa- 

 sional migration, due to excessive drought, is sometimes a cause of 

 the spread of butterflies into new localities. He also brought 

 forward a suggestion received from Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton as to 

 one of the causes which may have operated in the special develop- 

 ment of mimicry in forest areas ; it is that flying insects are often 

 exceedingly difficult to recognize in forest as against veld. It is by 

 no means easy to at once decide on the coloration of an insect seen 

 flying in a blaze of light against a deep shadow or vice versa : also 

 they so frequently disappear behind foliage after having been in view 

 for a few seconds only. Under those circumstances a mere trick of 



