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boemi, Java, and read notes. The ants, which were in spirit, appear 
to be a species of Polyrhachis. 
LonGEVITY OF A COLEOPTEROUS LARVA.—The President exhibited a 
Coleopterous larva, together with the box in and on which it had been 
living for some years. He said that it was the larva of a Longicorn 
beetle, but was unable to state tne species, and observed that similar 
instances of longevity were on record. 
_ JUGO-FRENATE GENERA OF MICROPrERYGIDH.—Dr. Turner read the 
following note on Mr. Tillyard’s discovery of this wing structure in 
certain Australian Micropteryyidae. 
March 20th.—Euxction or Fentows.—2nd Lieut. William Proctor 
Smith, F.Z.8., Haddon House, Ashton-on-Mersey, and Messrs. John 
Henry Watson, 70, Ashford Road, Withington, Manchester, and 
Ronald Senior White, Suduganga Hstate, Matale, of the Board of 
Agriculture, Ceylon, were elected Fellows of the Society. 
Eection of an Honorary Fetnow. —Dr. Paul Marchal, President 
of the Entomological Society of France, 89, Rue du Cherche-Midi, 
Paris, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 
Parrr.—‘ Observations on the Lepidopterous Family Cossidae, and 
on the Classification of the Lepidoptera,” by A. Jeffries Turner, M.D., 
P.E.S. 
Dr. Turner gave an abstract of his paper illustrated by drawings 
of neuration, shown in the epidiascope. 
Apri 38rd.—Liuection or «a Frnnow.—Dr. Allan Chilcott Parsons, 
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.Ph., Sanitary Officer West African Medieal 
Staff, and Temp. Capt. R.A.M.C., <chngtll of Army Sanitation, Alder- 
shot. was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
Buack Form or Pura or Pararce mEGuRa.—On behalf of Mr. 
Prideaux the Secretary exhibited*two black and two green living pupe 
of P. megera, and read notes. 
Lick anp Trencu Frver.—Mr. Bacot gave an account of experi- 
ments as to the distribution of trench fever by le. 
ANDRocoNIA IN ORDERS OTHER THAN Leprpoprera.—The Rey. FI. D. 
Morice inquired whether androconial scales were known in insects 
other than Lepidoptera. He thought that he had discovered them 
among the sawflies in the Australian genus Perya. 
Tue ‘“vappinc’”? or ANOBIUM sTRIATUM AND A. PERTINAX.—'T/he 
President said that he had found that Kirby had mentioned the 
“tapping” of A. striatum with its mandibles. Also that in the Wiss. 
Zeit. fiir Insekten-biologie for 1910 the Danish naturalist Jensen 
Haarup spoke of A. pertinaa as tapping most vigorously before a storm 
and being regarded in Jutland as a weather prophet. As this was 
described as taking place specially in autumn and winter, the President 
considered it probable that the tapping was really made by the book-lousg. 
Comm. Walker felt sure that he had heard A. striatum tapping 
where no X. tessellatum were present. 
Tar Sours Lonpon Einromonocican anpd Natura History Society. 
February 14th.—Drcrasz.—The death of Mr. G. Brooks, a member 
of the Council, was announced. 
MELANISM IN DEFOLIARIA.— Mr. Bowman exhibited a series of female 
Hibernia defoliaria from Epping Forest, in which the abdomen was jet 
black, 
