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of Arts, and the Palace Theatre, London. The pictures had been 

 taken, with one or two exceptions, at the Society's Gardens in 

 Regent's Park, and at the National Zoological Park, Washington, 

 U.S.A. Mr. John Mackenzie, the expert who had photographed 

 the animals, introduced and explained the series and the processes 

 which had been employed in obtaining them. 



The coloured pictures obtained by the Urban-Smith system of 

 Kinemacolor were particularly successful in reproducing faith- 

 fully various shades of yellow, grey, and brown, the films exhibiting 

 the Giraffes feeding and the Elephants bathing being strikingly 

 good, whilst some of the brightly coloured birds were extremely 

 interesting. A series of uncoloured films gave faithful and 

 pleasing representations of various animals in movement, some 

 of them displaying the effect on the animals of gramophone 



Mr. Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S., read a paper en- 

 titled " Additions to our Knowledge of the Fossorial Wasps of 

 Australia." Many new species were therein described, belonging 

 chiefly to the Families Thynnidse and Ceropalidse. The Thynnida? 

 had been collected chiefly by Mr. H. M. Giles in South-western 

 Australia, and many interesting notes had been contributed by 

 him on their habits. The sexual differences were extreme, and 

 hitherto few Western Australian species had been correctly 

 paired. The females were wingless, and the mouth - parts 

 extremely minute, so that only liquid food could be taken, and 

 this was usually disgorged by the male and placed in the mouth 

 of the female. Mr. Giles had observed several cases of cross 

 pairing, in which the male was carrying the female of a different 

 species ; there could be no doubt a,s to the accuracy of this 

 observation, though it was possible that the male claspers might 

 be used for carrying the female when coupling did not take place. 



The geographical distribution of the genus Anthobosca (Fam. 

 Scoliidse), now almost entirely confined to the Southern Hemi- 

 sphere, was also discussed. 



Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S., F.Z.S., presented a paper 

 entitled " Descriptions of new Lycsenidas and Hesperiidse from 

 Tropical South Africa," which contained an account of the 

 numerous new forms collected by Mr. G. L. Bates, F.Z.S., on 

 the Ja River, Cameroons, and by Herr Landbeck in the Upper 

 Kasi district of the Congo. The author stated that until recently 

 it had been almost impossible to identify many Lycsenidse de- 

 scribed from this region by Dr. Karsch and by Herr Suffert 

 without visiting the Imperial Museum at Berlin, where the types 

 were deposited, but that by the kindness of the Director he had 

 been able to obtain about forty excellent photographs of these, 

 which he was on the point of publishing on eight plates. 



