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Meeting signed by the President and six other members of the Council, 
was read from the Chair. 
Mr. Bethune-Baker proposed that the suggested alterations in the 
Bye-laws be received—seconded by Lord Rothschild and carried. The 
suggested alterations were then put separately before the meeting from 
the Chair. 
Orpinary Meetinc.—Eiuection or Frntows.—Mons. F. le Cerf, 
Curator of the Lepidoptera in the Paris Museum, 13, rue Guy de la 
. Brosse, Paris; Miss Alice Ellen Prout, Lane End, Hambledon, Surrey ; 
and Messrs. W. H. Tams, 8, Whitla Road, Manor Park, EK. 12, and 
Alfred EH. Tonge, Ashville, Trafford Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, 
. were elected Fellows of the Society. 
ZYGAENAS OF THE TRANSALPINA GRouP.—Lord Rothschild exhibited a 
long series of Zygaenas of the transalpina group together with a series 
of Z. ephialtes showing parallel variation, and Mr. Bethune-Baker in 
illustration exhibited with the epidiascope a number of slides showing 
the differences in the genital armature of the various species. 
A METHOD OF COLLECTING AND STORING INSEGTS, ETC., FIXED TO LEAVES, 
‘WITHOUT PRESSURE.—Mr. C. B. Williams showed the following method : 
—A small round shallow pill-box, with or without a glass lid, is taken 
and the inner cardboard ring separated from the rest of the box. For 
collecting the lid of the box with this inner ring in it are placed over 
the specimen on the leaf and the rest of the box beneath. On pressing 
the two halves of the box together the leaf with the specimen on it is 
pressed to the bottom of the box, where it is protected and kept into 
position by the cardboard ring, which is pushed back into its original 
position. 
New AND LirTLE-KNown Austrauian Insecrs.—Mr. Denquet, who 
was present as a visitor, exhibited a number of Australian insects of 
various orders, many of which were still undescribed and unnamed. 
Tue Souta Lonpon Entomonoaicat Society. 
July 22nd.—A Bat Parastre.—The President exhibited Cimea He 
strellus, a Hemipteron infesting the bat. 
Inpian Leprpoprera.—Mr. Turner, a box of Lepidoptera collected 
by Mr. Grosvenor chiefly at Bangalore, India. 
A cURIOUS EXPERIENCE.—Mr. Priske, recorded that in five of six 
traps set in Richmond Park for Coleoptera, five species of Necraphorus 
were caught, a different species in each trap, the sixth trap contained 
two species of Silpha., 
SeasonaL Notes: FAILURE TO BREED P, Livornica.—Mr. Newman. 
. an alien plant Buplewrwm fruticosum, growing in abundance near 
Darenth. He also reported non-success in getting the larve of Phryaus 
livornica to pupate, abundance of Aryynnis aglaia, fair numbers of 
Plebeius aegon, the apparent disappearance of Melanargia galathea from 
W. Kent, and that nearly everything in captivity was making a second 
brood. 
August 12th—Drcrasz or W. West (or Greenwica).—The death 
of Mr. W. West (of Greenwich), on July 80th, was announced. He 
