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diameters). 4. Entomological Congress groups at Oxford and Tring. 

 (Lantern-slides.) During the course of this exhibit, Dr. Chapman, 

 at Mr. Morice's request, explained the manner in which he had seen 

 the wings of the female Odynerus spinipes imprisoned between the 

 tridentate middle femora and excavated middle tibiae of the male. — 

 A paper by Mr. H. Eltringham, M.A., F.L.S., "On the Scent- 

 apparatus of Amauris niavius, L.," was read by the author, the 

 black-and-white drawings by which it was illustrated being thrown 

 on the screen. 



Wednesday, April 2nd, 1913.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., President, in the chair. — Messrs. Andre Avinoff, Liteyny, 

 12, St. Petersburg; W. Bowater, Eussell Eoad, Moseley, Birming- 

 ham ; J. S. Carter, Warren Hill Cottage, Eastbourne ; James David- 

 son, M.Sc, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South 

 Kensington, S.W. ; Arthur H. Foster, M.E.C.S., L.E.C.P. (Eng.), 

 M.B.O.U., Sussex House, Hitchin ; J. A. de Gaye, King's College, 

 Lagos, South Nigeria ; Oliver Hawkshaw, 3, Hill Street, Mayfair, W., 

 and Millard, Liphook ; and Ernest Edward Piatt, 403, Essenwood 

 Road, Durban, Natal, were elected Fellows of the Society. — The Eey. 

 G. Wheeler explained that he had been mistaken in some of his 

 observations on Argynnis auresiana, which he exhibited on October 

 16th. The name auresiana was given by Fruhstorfer, not by 

 Oberthiir, and a few specimens were already known before Mr. 

 Powell discovered it in numbers at Lambessa, as previously stated. It 

 had also been figured by Turati. — Mr. E. Ernest Green exhibited 

 cards showing the transferred wing-scales of butterflies. — Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe, a specimen of Tctramorium ccespitum, L., worker, from a 

 colony found by Mr. Evans on the Bass Eock in Scotland, March 

 21st, 1913 ; the most northern records known in Britain were 

 Denbigh in Wales, and Cambridgeshire and Suffolk in England. — 

 Mr. W. C. Crawley, numerous species, subspecies, &c, of ants from 

 Egypt, which were taken at Helouan during December and January 

 last.- — Dr. Jordan gave a short account of the Zoological Congress at 

 Monaco, with special reference to entomological nomenclature, and 

 thanks were voted to the Society's delegates for their work at the 

 Congress, and to Dr. Jordan in particular, for his interesting and 

 satisfactory account of it.— The following papers were read : — •" On 

 the Classification of British Crabronidee (Hymenoptera)," by E. C. L. 

 Perkins, D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S. " Descriptions of New Species of the 

 Syrphid Genus Callicera (Diptera)," by the late G. H. Verrall, F.E.S. 

 Edited by J. E. Collin, F.E.S. " Neue Pyrgotinen aus dem British 

 Museum in London," von Friedrich Hendel, Wien. — George 

 Wheeler, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— April 10*fe.--Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Buckstone exhibited living larvse of Scodiona fagaria 

 (belgiaria) from Oxshott. — Mr. Newman, a remarkable aberration of 

 a hybrid between Ephyra annulata, male, and E. pendularia, female, 

 in which the outer half of all the wings was melanic. — Mr. A. E. 

 Gibbs read a paper entitled " Through the Balkans with a Camera," 

 illustrating his remarks with a number of lantern -slides of views and 



