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MA Y 26th, 1904. 



The President in the Chair. 



The President reported the death of Mr. R. McLachlan, 

 F.R.S., a member of the Society, and referred in suitable 

 terms to his scientific attainments, and to the work he had 

 carried on for so many years in the less worked orders of the 

 Insecta. Mr. Rowland- Brown also paid a tribute to the 

 deceased gentleman, whom he had known very intimately for 

 some years as a fellow-officer on the Council of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London. Dr. Chapman wished to 

 associate himself with the expressions of regret at the loss 

 sustained. Mr. Adkin, as a near' neighbour for many years, 

 spoke of him as a staunch and faithful friend. 



A vote of condolence was passed, the members standing. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited spikes of the true Ophrys nranifera, the 

 spider orchis, and of Orchis militaris, they were both from 

 Wye, Kent. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited (i) a few butterflies taken at 

 Pontdu Card (South France), the most interesting, perhaps, 

 being a few Clirysophanns gordins and some Syrichthiis sida; 



(2) a larva of TJiais polyxena var, cassandra suspended for 

 pupation, showing the girth, which is afterwards attached 

 to the cephalic cremaster, turned round the first abdominal 

 segment, in a similar position to that in other girthed pupae ; 



(3) pupae of Libythea ccltis showing how the structure of the 

 cremaster and bend of the last segments causes the pupa, 

 though a suspended one, to lie against the surface of attach- 

 ment much as a girthed pupa would do. 



Mr. Carr exhibited the larva of Phorodcsuia bajularia, to 

 show its habit of clothing itself for protection, with the debris 

 of the male flowers of the oak. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a short series of i s and 

 5 s of the rare beetle Asphyra punctata, and pointed out the 

 extreme sexual dimorphism. They were sent to him by Mr. 

 J. Edwards, who took them at Colesbourne, Gloucester. He 

 also showed fifty-eight species of Coleoptera and three species 

 of Hemiptera he had taken at Ashtead on May 14th during 

 the Society's Field Meeting. 



Mr. Sich exhibited the pupa of a beetle, and it was generally 

 considered to be that of Ocypiis olcns. 



Mr. Turner exhibited four more species of the genus 

 Colcophora, viz. cases and larvse of (i) C. viminctella, taken at 

 Chalfont on sallow ; (2) C. badiipenneUa, taken at Lewisham 



