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than twenty coloured plates, depicting two hundred and fifty-five 

 species. Mr. Donisthorpe has contributed to the volume a special 

 paper on the British Myrmecophilous Coleoptera. We understand 

 that both the large and small paper editions, which are being 

 published by Messrs. Lovell, Eeeve & Co., Ltd., of 6, Henrietta 

 Street, Covent Garden, London, are to be ready by March 15th. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Annual Meeting, Wednes- 

 day, January loth, 1913. — The Eev. F. D. Morice, President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. J. E. Collin, one of the Auditors, read the Treasurer's 

 Balance Sheet for 1912, showing a balance of £16 18s. 9d. On the 

 proposal of the Eev. F. E. Lowe, seconded by Mr. H. Main, it was 

 unanimously adopted. — The Eev. George Wheeler, one of the Secre- 

 taries, then read the Eeport of the Council. Mr. A. Bacot proposed 

 that the Council's Eeport be adopted. This was seconded by Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman, and carried unanimously. The President then put 

 the Council's list of nominees for the Officers and Council for the 

 ensuing session to the meeting and asked for a show of hands. The 

 following were then declared elected unanimously : — President, G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, F.Z.S. ; Treasurer, Albert H. Jones ; Secretaries, 

 Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., E.N., F.L.S., and Eev. G. Wheeler, 

 M.A., F.Z.S. ; Librarian, G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S. ; other 

 members of the Council, E. Adkin, James E. Collin, J. Hartley 

 Durrant, Stanlev Edwards, F.Z.S., F.L.S. ; H. Eltringham, M.A., 

 F.Z.S. ; A. E. Gibbs.F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A. : G. W. 

 Nicholson, M.A., M.D. ; Hon. N. C. Eothschild, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; 

 W. E. Sharp, J. E. le B. Tomlin, M.A. ; Colbran J. Wainwright. 

 The President, the Eev. F. D. Morice, then delivered an address, at 

 the close of which Mr. C. J. Gahan proposed a vote of thanks to him 

 for his services as President and for his address, at the same time 

 asking for its publication as a part of the Proceedings of the Society ; 

 this was seconded by Mr. C. Fenn, and carried unanimously. The 

 President having replied with a few words of thanks, Mr. G. Meade- 

 Waldo proposed, and Professor Selwyn Image seconded, a vote of 

 thanks to the Officers of the Society for their work during the past 

 year, which was also carried unanimously. The Treasurer and both 

 the Secretaries returned thanks, the former referring to the generosity 

 with which Dr. Chapman had for years contributed towards the 

 expense of the plates published in the Transactions. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — Annual Pocket-box Exhibition, November 28th. — Mr. 

 A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — Mr. C. N. Freeman, 

 of Sanderstead, was elected a member. — Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited 

 species taken and bred by him during the season, including Heliothis 

 marginatus, Agrotis cinerea, Oncocera ahenella, Notodonta phcebe 

 (dictcea), &c, from Eeigate; Polia chi, from Winslow, Bucks, 

 Leucania albipuncta, Noctua stigmatica, Bryophila muralis var. 

 impar, from Deal, &c. — Mr. B. H, Smith, thirty specimens of Phry.xus 



