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SOCIETIES. 19 
SOCIETIES. 
Tar Entomotocican Society or Lonpon. 
October 3rd, 1917.—Exection or a Fetinow.—Dr. George Granville 
Buckley, M.D., F.S.A. , Holly Bank, Manchester Road, Stafford, was 
elected a Fellow of the Society. 
Dears or an Honorary Fetnow.—The death of Dr. Emil Frey- 
Gessner was announced. 
CoLEoPTERA on uNnusuaL Foop-Puants, erc.—Mr. Donisthorpe 
_ exhibited the followiug Coleoptera :— 
1. Miarus campanulae, L., taken on the downs at Findon (Sussex), 
June 14th, 1917, in some numbers, in a small species of buttercup only. 
2. Lycoperdina succineta, L., taken at Barton Mills (Suffolk), ‘Sep- 
_ tember 9th, 1917, in fungus. 
8. Cassida fastuosa, Schal., taken at Goring Woods (Sussex), July 
28th, 1917, on Inula dysenterica. This is its first record on Fleabane ; 
and all the specimens were of a bright yellow and black colour when 
alive, and not as is usual red and black. 
Puotograpus or Sawrty Larv™.—The Rey. F. D. Morice exhibited 
with the epidiascope a set of photographs (mostly taken from living 
specimens feeding or resting on their usual food-plants) of several saw- 
_ fly larve. 
Parrr.—The following paper was read :— 
“ Purther notes on Recapitulatory oe in Lepidoptera,” by T 
A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.8. 
October 17th.—Eecrion oF Ee en ine Jobn Williams Hockin, 
Castle Street, Launceston, Cornwall; Col. Turenne Jermyn, Highcliffe, 
Weston-super-Mare; Mr. Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., 
Balliol College, Oxford; and the Rev. Prebendary A. P. Wickham, 
Hast Brent Vicarage, Highbridge, Somerset, were elected Fellows of 
he Society. 
Hyrnr-parasives on APANTELHS GLOMERATUS.—Mr. Donisthorpe ex- 
hibited a number of small yellow cocoons which were taken on a fence 
at Putney on September 15th last, and which had emerged from the 
body of a White Butterfly larva. On October 8th Hymenopterous 
insects began to emerge from the cocoons and were still doing so; of. 
the specimens exhibited, some of which were alive, 23 belonged to the 
insect captured on September 15th, and two (a g and ¢?) to another 
Species of Hymenoptera. It would seem these belonged to a hyper- 
parasite, parasitic on the original parasites. 
A new Sus-senores or Moreno raerenor.—Mr. Dicksee exhibited a 
probable new sub-species of Morpho rhetenor, now received for the first 
time from Colombia. 
Aw aBerrant Wasp.—-Dr. Chapman exhibited an aberrant specimen 
of a wasp (Vespa yermanica) and miade observations upon it. 
A very rare Britise Beerur.—Mr. O. HK. Janson exhibited a fine 
example of Tapinotus sellatus, Fab., taken by him on June 9th last near 
Horning, Norfolk. Only two British specimens were previously known. 
He also showed some other Coleoptera of interest taken i in the same 
locality. - 
A British specimen or Noroponta sBrconorra.—Mr, O. EH. Janson 
_also exhibited on behalf of Mr. L. H. Bonaparte- Wyse, who was present 
as a visitor, a fine male specimen of Notodonta bicoloria, Shitf., taken 
by him near Killarney on June 7th last. 
