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obtainable British Psychids and read notes on the characteristics and 

 life-histories of the species. 



New world Sphingid^. — ^Mr. H. Moore, a number of species of 

 Nearctic and Neotropical Sphingidae. 



Secondary Sexual Character in E. polychloros. — Mr. Frohawk, 

 the two sexes of Eugonia polychloros, and pointed out that the only 

 secondary sexual character of distinction was the hitherto unnoted fact 

 of the males possessing considerably larger eyes. 



A Sicilian Scarab^us. — Mr. Main, Scarabaeus sacer (?j from Sicily, 

 and called attention to the very imperfect and worn condition of the 

 tibise and tarsi with complete absence of claws caused by continued 

 use. 



Paper. — Mr. E. Adkin read a short paper, " The "Weather of 1916 

 and the Butterflies of Eastbourne." 



An interesting old record from Ireland. — Mr. Frohawk read a 

 letter from Tipperary, dated 1895, describing a butterfly existing there, 

 which apparently was Limenitis sibilla. 



April 2Gth, 1917. — Exhibition of Orders others than Lepi- 

 DOPTERA. — Mr. H. Main exhibited living specimens of Scarabaeus from 

 Malta and Sicily, and specimens of the oil-beetle Melo'S with cells 

 containing the bees, Anthrophora pilipes, on which it is parasitic. 



Mr. K. G. Blair, (1) living gall-flies, Aphilothrix radicis, and the 

 " truffle " gall from which they emerged ; (2) Psammochares cardui, a 

 new species of Pompilid bee recently described by Dr. Perkins ; and (3) 

 on behalf of Dr. C. J. Gahan, a living specimen of the Death- Watch 

 beetle, Xestobmm tesselatum, which responded to stimulus by tapping. 



Mr. W. West (Epsom), an ancient microscope, date 1780. 



Mr. Barnett, a Natterjack Toad from Mitcham Common. 



Mr. H. Moore, a large number of insects from Demerara, ants, bees, 

 wasps, flies, mantids, locusts and Hemiptera, including Membracidae. 



Mr. Priske, tropical shells, including fine Cypris and "cowries." 



Mr. Ashdown, Swiss and N. Italian Coleoptera taken in 1914, 

 including about 40 species of Longicorn. 



Mr. Lucas, a collection of British Earwigs and coloured enlarged 

 drawings of the N. Forest Cricket (Nemobius sylvestris), and of the 

 Giant Earwig (Labidura riparia). 



Mr. Lachlan Gibb, a case of the American " bag-worm," 

 Thyridojiteryx ephemeraeformis, a large species of Psychid, 



Mr. West (Greenwich), his collection of British Homoptera and 

 drawers from the Society's reference collections, of Coleoptera, Diptera, 

 Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and European Coleoptera. 



Mr. Turner, various species of British Ichneumonidae, British 

 Hymenoptera, and Orthoptera. 



Mr. Adkin, a copy of Fuessly's " Archives de I'histoire des 

 Insectes," 1794. 



Mr. Frohawk, a sketch of a male Blackbird noticed by him posing 

 during courtship. 



Mr. Edwards, boxes of Exotic Coleoptera, Cicadidae and Hemiptera. 



May \Oth, 1917. — Decease of two Members. — The death of two 



