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he owed to Mr. J. J. Joicey the opportunity of exhibiting the type of 
the West African H. wrania from the collection of the late Mr. H. 
Grose-Smith, and comparing it with the series of posthwmus in the 
British Museum. 
Tur Hasrrs or ETHIOPIAN SPECIES OF SARANGESA AND OTHER Hxs- 
PERIDAE.— Prof. Poulton read extracts on the above subject from a 
letter written by the Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers, from Konewa, in ex- 
German Fast Africa. 
THe SESIAS MIMICS AND NOT MODELS oF THE HymrENoprERA,—Prof. 
Poulton said that he wished to draw attention to an unfortunate mis- 
conception in the recently issued part of M. Charles Oberthir’ s beauti- 
ful work, ‘“ Etudes de Lépidoptérologie comparée,” Fasc. xiv., 1917, 
p. 181, viz., that the Hymenoptera were mimics of the Sesias. 
Tun conspicuous CarocaLine mMotH HiGYBOLIS VAILLANTINA, STOLL, 
SEIZED AND DROPPED BY A BIRD, AT Dursan.—Prof. Poulton said that 
Mr. C. N. Barker had sent to him this observation recorded by Mr. 
Harold Millar. 
HarPaGoMYIA AND OTHER DiprERA FED BY CREMASTOGASTER ANTS IN 
S. Nierria.—Prof. Poulton said he had just received a letter from Mr. 
C. O. Farquharson, dated 13th December, 1917, from Ibadan, 
describing this remarkable association in an entirely new part of the world. 
March 6th.—EKuection or Fritows.—Col. Wilfrid Wm. Ogilvy 
Beveridge, R.A.M.C., C.B., D.S.O. (on active service), c/o J. H. 
Durrant, Hisq., Natural History Museum, 8. Kensington, 8.W., and 
Messrs. Patrick Aubrey Hugh Smith, Sconner House, St. German’s, 
Cornwall, and 28, Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, W., and Lionel 
Julian Walford, the Cavalry Club, Piccadilly, W., were elected Fellows 
of the Society. 
MyrmecopsiLe DipteRA COLLECTED AND THE CuLicip ToxoRHyn- 
CHITES BRED BY Mr. C. O. Farquaarson in §. Nicer1a.—Prof. Poulton 
exhibited these specimens referred to in Mr. Farquharson’s notes 
communicated to the last meeting of the Society, and received at a 
later date. 
THE NIDIFICATION OF Osmia AURULENTA, Panz: A CoRRECTION.—-Prof. 
Poulton said that he had recently received a letter from Dr. G. Arnold, 
in Bulawayo, correcting the statement that he had bred Osmia auru- 
lenta from whelk shells, on the Wallasey sand-hills. The shells were 
a species of Helix, probably nemoralis.. 
Dr. To. Mortrensen’s OBSERVATIONS ON THE ‘‘ FALSE HEAD” OF 
LycmNIDH AND OTHER BUTTERFLIES, ETCc.—Prof. Poulton drew atten- 
tion to ‘‘ Observations on Protective Adaptations and Habits, mainly 
in Marine Animals,” published, in English, as one of the papers on 
Dr. Th. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition, 1914-16 (Vidensk. Medd. fra. 
Dansk naturhist. Foren, Bd. 69, pp. 57-96, pr 1.), and especially the 
“ Observations on Insects ” (p. 83). 
A MIMETIC ASSOCIATION OF ITHOMIINE BUTTERFLIES AND A RARE 
Dioptip motu.—Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. J. 
Joicey, an apparently very rare Diopiid moth, Dioptis pellucida, Warr., 
and contributed notes on its mimetic association with a group of small 
Ithomiine species. 
Wasps’ AND ANTS’ NESTS FRoM Java.—Mr. Frisby exhibited an 
ants’ nest, and also three cells of Zethus cyanopterus, a wasp of the 
family Eumenidae, sent by Mrs. M. HK. Walsh, F.H. S., from Soeka- 
