116 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Treasurership, after so long a period of very efficient work in the 
Society’s interests. 
The two Secretaries said a few words of thanks, the Tvanstie and 
the Librarian being absent. 
Hebruary 6th—Nomination or Vicr-Presmpents.—The President 
nominated Dr. H. Hltringham, Mr. A. H. Jones, and Mr. 8. A. Neave 
as Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 
Evection or Frttows.—Dr. John Adams Comstock, Curator of the 
South-Western Museum, 1275 Bellevue Avenue, Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia, U.S.A., and Mr. James W. Monro, Lieut. R.A.M.C., 2nd Sani- 
tary Coy., Duke of York’s Head Quarters, Chelsea, 8.W., were elected 
Fellows of the Society. 
A Bererte new To Britain, AND ANOTHER VERY RARE.—Mr. Donis- 
thorpe exhibited a g and @ of Caenocara subglobosa, Muls., a beetle 
new to Britain which he had bred from a “ puff-ball” (Lycoperdon 
_ gemmatum) taken at Barton Mills, Suffolk, on September 9th, 1917, 
together with a specimen (2 ) of Caenocara bovistae, Hoff. Also speci- 
mens of Cryptophagus lovendali, Ganglb., which he had found in large 
numbers in a nest of Vespa germanica in a tree in Richmond Park on ~ 
November 20th, 1917; a species of which only two specimens had 
been taken in Britain before. 
Hemrpterous ova.—Mr. EH. A. Butler exhibited ova of the follow- 
ing species of Pentatomidae, Piezodorus lituratus, Fabr., and Pentatoma 
rufipes, L.; Chorosoma schillingi, Schml., a Coreid bug ; two species of 
Berytus ; three Reduviids, Coranus subapterus, L., Nabis major, Costa, 
and Nabis rugosus, L.; a Capsid bug, Miris laevigatus ; and three water 
bugs, Naucoris cimicoides, Li., Notonecta glauca, Li.,and Nepa cinerea, L. 
Two Spectzs oF CatTaGRAMMA, AND A NEW Dynamine.—Mr. Kaye 
exhibited from Mr. Joicey’s collection series of the two Catagramma 
species CU. pastazza and C. eacelsior, with races and forms of each, point- 
ing out that the two groups of insects Were at once separable by the 
different tips to the antennae; and a striking new species of Dynamine 
(D. agatha) from Bolivia. 
Psrupacrakas IN Mimetic Assoctation.—Lord Rothschild exhibited 
a series of Pseudocraeas in illustration of a paper on the mimetic asso- 
ciations of these butterflies. 
A NEw Form oF PsEUDACRAEA POGGEI, DEW., MIMICKING THE DORIPPUS, 
Kuve, rorm or Danarpa curysippus, L., In Ex-GEeRmMan Hast AFrica.— 
Prof. Poulton said he had recently received this form from Capt. 
G. D. H. Carpenter. 
Tue ‘“ Fruit-rty’’ DRosopHILA AND THE INHERITANCE OF SMALL 
vaRiations.—Prof. Poulton said that Prof. H. 8. Jennings, of Balti- 
more, U.S.A., had remarked ‘ We feel that we have in Morgan’s 
Drosophila a sort of machine for grinding out answers to all sorts of 
questions in genetics, and now that the question of the inheritance 
of small variations has been put to it, it yieldsan emphatic affirmative — 
answer.” 
Musca autumnatis, Dr G. (corvina, F’.), HIBERNATING IN A LOFT IN 
THE IsLe or Wicut.—Prof. Poulton exhibited examples of 66 males 
and 80 females of Musca autumnalis captured 14th December, 1917, 
in the cistern-loft of St. Helen’s Cottage, St. Helens, Isle of Wight. 
Eprrauia uranta, Kirsy ?=postaumus, F'.—Prof. Poulton said that 
