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The Entomological Society of London. 



March 16th. — The President announced that the Rev. George 

 Wheeler had been obliged to resign the Secretaryship on account of 

 ill-health, and that the Council had elected Mr. H. Rowland-Brown in 

 his place. A vote of thanks to Mr. Wheeler for his services, which 

 extended over ten years, was proposed by the President and carried 

 unanimously. 



Elections. — The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — 

 Captain K. J. Hayward, Aswan, Egypt ; Mr. E. Bolton King, Balliol 

 College, Oxford; Mr. L. M. Peairs, West Virginia, U.S.A.; Mr. 

 E. D. Lewis, Swanley, Kent; Mr. W. J. Hall, Cairo, Egypt; Mr. D. 

 Ponniah, Federated Malay States ; Mr. H. D. Hope, Jermyn Street, 

 W.C ; Professor Dr. S. Matsumura, Japan ; and Professor C. P. 

 Alexander, Illinois, U.S.A. 



Mimetic Association between Heliconius species. — Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., exhibited a series of butterflies, Microclea, from 

 Central Peru, to illustrate the mimetic relationship between Heliconius 

 notabilis form microclea, Kaye, and H. xenoclea, Hew. Mr. J. W. Kaye 

 suggested that the palatability of the two was probably the same. 



Classification of Ants. — Mr. H. Donisthorpe gave an account of 

 the latest views on the sub-families of Ants, and illustrated his 

 remarks with numerous diagrams. In connection therewith Mr. W. C. 

 Crawley exhibited representatives of each of the two groups separated 

 by Wheeler, and remarked that the large Termite ants could be heard 

 by their kind. 



Mesopotamian Butterflies. — Lt.-Col. Peile, I.M.S., brought for 

 exhibition a collection of butterflies made by him in Mesopotamia. 

 These included a new species of Lycaena, with the Blues with which 

 it was taken in company, with a new sub-species of Zegris eupheme r 

 viz., subsp. dyala, which occurs at Fathah on the right bank of the 

 Tigris, differing from var. menestho, Men., in the absence of the yellow 

 suffusion in the ground colour of the hindwing, and from ab. tschudica, 

 H.-S., in having more white in proportion to the green ; and Melitaea 

 trivia var. persea, Koll., the seasonal forms from various localities in 

 Mesopotamia and the North-west Frontier of India. 



Aberrations of P. machaon and of P. plantaginis. — Mr. E. B. 

 Ashby exhibited an example of Papilio machaon ab. rufopunctata, 

 Wheeler, from Les Voirons, Haut-Savoie, and a series of Parasemia 

 plantaginis from the Col de Faucille above Gex, Ain, in the French 

 Jura, showing a great diversity of variation. One specimen he 

 thought might be referred to matronalis, but the President did not 

 support this view, the melanism not being sufficiently pronounced. 



Teratological aberrations in Lepidoptera. — Mr. Talbot, on 

 behalf of Mr. -J. J. Joicey, exhibited teratological aberrations of 

 Lepidoptera, and a case containing several new forms of African 

 Rhopalocera. 



Papers. — The following papers were then read : — " On some 

 Cfirysomelidae (Coleoptera) in the British Museum," by Mr. A. M. Lea. 

 " Types of Heteromera described by F. Walker and now in the British 

 Museum," by K. G. Blair, B.Sc. 



