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hobleyi, Neave," by G. H. D. Carpenter, B.A., B.M., B.Ch., F.E.S. ; 

 " Some Luminous Coleoptera from Ceylon," by E.Ernest Green, F.E.S. 

 Wednesday, November 20th, 1912.— The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., 

 President, in the chair. — The following were elected Fellows of the 

 Society: — Miss Margery H. Briggs, B.Sc, 7, Winterstoke Gardens, 

 Mill Hill, N.W. ; Messrs. Edward Ballard, Zomba, Nyassaland ; 

 George Trevor Lyle, Bank House, Brockenhurst ; Rev. J. W. Met- 

 calfe, The Vicarage, Ottery St. Mary ; Kurt, Baron Rosen, Zoologische 

 Staatssammlung, Munich. — The Rev. G. Wheeler, one of the Secre- 

 taries, announced that the Council had nominated the following 

 Fellows as Officers and Council for the Session 1913-1914 : — Presi- 

 dent, George T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Treasurer, Albert 

 Hugh Jones; Secretaries, Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., R.N., 

 F.L.S., and the Rev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. ; Librarian, 

 George Charles Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S. Other members of the 

 Council, Robert Adkin, James E. Collin, John Hartley Durrant, 

 Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Harry Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S., 

 A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., Gilbert W. 

 Nicholson, M.A., M.D., Hon. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., W. E. Sharp, J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., Colbran J. 

 Wainwright. — Mr. W. A. Lamborn exhibited (1) a small company of 

 the Nymphaline butterfly Euphcedra ravola, Hew., which he had 

 bred in August last from larvae found together under one leaf near Oni 

 Camp, Lagos ; (2) two bred families of the Pierine butterfly Leuce- 

 ronia argia, Fabr., with the female parent in each case. — Mr. E. C. 

 Bedwell, specimens of Lasiosomus enervis, H.S., one of the rarest of 

 the British Lygasidae. — Mr. 0. E. Janson, specimens of a remarkable 

 Mantid ootheca from Delagoa Bay that had been described and figured 

 by the late Mr. Shelford.— Mr. E. C. Joy, two aberrant specimens 

 of Colias edusa, bred from Folkestone in October last. — Dr. K. Jordan, 

 two nests of Eucheira socialis recently received from Western Mexico. 

 The caterpillars of this Pierine butterfly live gregariously in an opaque 

 nest of silk, which has an aperture at the lower end. Pupation 

 takes place in the cavity of the nest, the pupae being suspended by 

 the tail, as in the case of Nymphalidae. — The following papers were 

 read: — "Notes on Various Central American Coleoptera, with De- 

 scriptions of New Genera and Species," by G. C. Champion, A.L.S. 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S.; "The Butterflies of the White Nile, a Study in 

 Geographical Distribution," by G. B. Longstaff, M.A., M.D., F.E.S. 

 A considerable discussion took place on the subject of Dr. Longstaff's 

 paper. 



Wednesday, December Uh, 1912.— The Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A. 

 President, in the chair. — Mr. C. A. Foster, Worcestershire Regiment, 

 Beechwood, Ifliey, Oxfoi'd, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — The 

 President announced the death of Mr. W. F. Kirby, formerly 

 Honorary Secretary of the Society. — Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a 

 diagram of the ootheca of a Mantis and read notes upon it. — Mr. 

 W. J. Kaye, a number of butterflies with one moth belonging to the 

 principal Mullerian Association as found in Costa Rica. A number 

 of specimens, both set and unset, of the principal Mullerian 

 group from Caracas, Venezuela, were also shown, to exhibit the 

 far closer resemblance of the under sides than the upper sides. 



