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Caclncy Vicarage, Brigg, Lincolnshre, were elocted Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Orthoptkra from Sai,onica. — Mr. Lucas brought the Orthoptera 

 sent from time to time by Mr. P. J. Barraud from Salonica, mainly 

 for the sake of a very interesting form of the comtnon earwig For/iciiia 

 aurirnlaria. 



Macedonian Orthoptera. — Captain Burr exhibited a series of 

 Orthoptera from Macedonia. 



Chalcid in undigested seed. — The President exhibited a Chalcid, 

 Tori/miis ele(jan>i, Borkh., sent to him by the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe- 

 Peacock, which had emerged from a hawthorn seed which had passed 

 through the alimentary canal of a blackbird, together with the seed 

 from which it had emerged. 



Butterflies of the Genus Oastnia and a mimetic Hesperid. — 

 Mr. L. B. Prout, on behalf of Mr. J. J. .Joicey, exhibited Castnia 

 erycina, Westw. paratypes out of the Druce collection, together with an 

 apparently very rare Erycinid butterfly (genus Xenandria ?) erroneously 

 described by Druce as. " Castnia '' pelopia, and also several new 

 or doubtful forms of Castnia, not yet fully worked out. 



Death of a Fellow. — Prof. Poulton said he was sure the Society 

 would regret to hear that Mr. C. 0. Farquharson, who had done so 

 much valuable work in Africa, had been drowned in the sinking of the 

 " Burutu " when on his way home on leave. 



Paper. — The following paper was read : — 



" Notes on a large Heliconine Collection made in French Guiana 

 in 1917, compared with a similar Collection made in 1915," by 

 J. J. Joicey, F.E.S., and W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. 



November 20^A, 1918. — Election of a Fellow. — Mr. Joseph Herrod- 

 Hempsall, Orchard House, Stockingstone Road, Round Green, Luton, 

 Beds., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



A NEW FORM OF MoRPHo EUGENIA. — Mf. Arthur Dicksee exhibited 

 three specimens of a new race of Morpho engenia from Colombia, from 

 which it was hitherto unknown, together with two Morplio eiK/enia 

 from French Guiana, and one Morpho adonis from French Guiana, 

 and another from the Lower Amazons for comparison. 



Bred Lycaena arion. — Capt. Purefoy exhibited a score of home- 

 bred L. arion, together with their pupa cases. 



Darkening of hindwjng in Mechanitis polymnia. — Mr. W. J. Kaye 

 exhibited six female Mechanitis iiolymnia from the Berbice River, 

 caught at Friendship in July, 1914, by Mr. H. C. Patoir, v>'hieh 

 all showed a very considerable darkening of the outer half of the hind- ■ 

 wing, one in particular having the whole outer half black. Two female 

 M. polymnia were also shown from thePotaro River, in Central British 

 Guiana, which were the blackest that had been taken, one of which 

 was figured in the Trans. Knt. Sac, pi. xxiii., fig. 3, 1906. 



Paper. — The following paper was read :— " The Hymenoptera of 

 Fiji," by Rowland E. Turner, F.E.S. 



December AtJi, 1918. — Election of Fellows. — Messrs. Anderson 

 Fergusson, 22, Polworth Gardens, Glasgow, W.; George Grace, B.Sc, 

 A.R.C.Sc, Inglenook, Utley, Keighley, Yorks, and P. V. Isaacs, B.A., 

 Assistant Entomologist to the Madras Agricultural Colleoe and 



