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marised his own work in the study of the ova and early stages of 

 the Lepidoptera. 



The following is a list of the Officers and Council elected to serve 

 for the ensuing year: — President, A. E. Tonge, F.E.S.; Vice- 

 Presidents, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. and B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S. ; 

 Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. ; Librarian, A. W. Dods ; Curator, 

 W. West; Hon. Secretaries, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., and Hy. J.' 

 Turner, F.E.S. ; Council, E. Adkin, F.E.S., C. W. Colthrup, T. W. 

 Cowham, A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., A. Bussell, F.E.S., W. G. Sheldon, 

 F.E.S., and A. Sich, F.E.S. — Votes of thanks were passed to the 

 President and other Officers. — Special Meeting.— It was unanimously 

 agreed to appoint an Editor of ' Proceedings ' as an additional Officer 

 and to increase the number of the Council from seven to nine. The 

 new rules to take effect as from January 1st, 1913. — Ordinary 

 Meeting. — Mr. Buckstone exhibited several short series of bred 

 Phragmatobia fuliginosa, representing second and third broods from 

 Aberdeen, first brood from Horsley, and second brood from Wendovcr. 

 — Mr. Bacot, an enlarged photograph of an Indian flea, reputed to 

 be one of the carriers of plague. — Mr. Dunster, specimens of D icy da 

 oo, Mcllinia ocellaris and Miselia oxyacanthce from Winchmore Hill. 



February 13th. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. C. B. Wixcey, of Palmer's Green, N., was elected a 

 member. — It was announced that Mr. Step had been made Editor of 

 'Proceedings,' and that Messrs. J.' Piatt Barrett and N. D. Biley 

 were added to the Council, in accordance with the alterations in the 

 bye-laws passed at the Special Meeting held on January 23rd. — Mr. 

 Buckstone exhibited several aberrations of Gharaas graminis, in- 

 cluding a remarkably uniform grey specimen, the markings being 

 scarcely discernible. — Mr. West, six species of the coleopterous 

 genus Ophortus (Harpalus in part), with the aedeagus mounted by the 

 side of the males, and remarked that the study of this organ had revo- 

 lutionized the previous identification of the species. — Mr. Andrews, 

 a series of the Dipteron Hcematobia irritans, taken off the backs of 

 bullocks near Milford Haven. Around the horns, clustered in dense 

 rings, flies had frequently been noticed. — Mr. K. G. Blair, a large, 

 living larva of a Geotrupes sp. (dung beetle) and compared it with 

 that of Melolontha. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a large number of Syntomidas, 

 with their supposed models, taken by Dr. Davis, of Belize, in British 

 Honduras. — Mr. Tonge, a fine bred series of Epuncla lichenea, from 

 Eastbourne. — Mr. Coote, bred Papilio machaon, in which the ground 

 colour approached that of ab. aurantiaca. — Mr. Frohawk, various 

 aberrations of Melitcea athalia, M. aurinia and M. cinxia, including 

 a fine melanic form of the first species and some fine under side 

 forms of the last-named, together with drawings of an albino 

 Argynnis adippe, an albino Euchlo'e cardamines, &c. — The rest of the 

 evening was devoted to microscopical exhibits by Messrs. C. B. 

 Williams, B. Adkin, F. Noad Clark, Ashdown, and W. West (Ash- 

 tead). — Hy. J. Turner (Hon. Bep. Sec). 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting 

 held at the Boyal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, Monday, 

 January 20th, 1913, Mr. B. Wilding, Vice-President, in the chair. — 



