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Orditiai'y Meeting. — Mr. Deimis exhibited enlarged photographs of 

 Mr. Adkin's P. brassicae with white bars on the apical black patch to show 

 there was no absence of scaling. Mr. Turner, series of the beautiful Cata- 

 grajnma soi'ana from Paraguay. Mr. Edwards, species of the genus Anaea 

 from S. America and spoke of their affinities and neuration. — Hr. J. Turnkk 

 Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, November 17th, 1917. 

 — Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., President, and afterwards Dr. G. B. Longstaff, 

 M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerel], of the University of Colorado, U.S.A., Miss D. 

 J. Jackson, Swordale, Evanton, Ross-shire, and Mr. Jesse Johnson^ 16 and 

 17 Marston Road, Stafford, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited several pairs of Pierines captured by Dr. G. D. 

 H. Carpenter, at Itigi, 150 miles east of Tabora, in what was German East 

 Africa. Capt. E. B. Purefoy, a short series of Lycaena avion which had been 

 bred up from the e^^ ; after the 3rd moult they had been carried into the nests 

 of Myrmica laevinodis. Prof. Poulton exhibited on the screen enlarged photo- 

 graphs of the parasites and hyperparasites bred from three species oi AjjJiididae 

 in the Oxford district by Mr. H. Britten of the Hope Department. Also a 

 synaposematic series of 272 Lycid beetles of 9 species taken on one plant in 

 one day by G. D. H. Carpenter, in (late) German East Africa. Also a spider 

 and its prey, the fierce Ponerine ant Meyapo7iera foetens F., taken at Itigi bj- 

 Captain' Carpenter on Aug. 21st, 1917. Prof. Poulton also read uDtes from 

 various correspondents in Africa on entomological subjects of interest. The 

 Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited a photograph of a young (living) larva of the 

 sawfly Lygaeoneynatus coynprcssicornis F., feeding in the middle of a poplar- 

 leaf, and surrounded with a sort of " stockade," or rather circle, of glassy nearly 

 equidistant " pillars," which are believed in some way to protect it. Dr. Chap- 

 man, some cocoons of Dicranura vinula that happened to show much more 

 plainly than is usually the case the different and thinner texture where the 

 moth is to emerge. Mr. Stanley Edwards asked the following questions: — 

 '*Is the President aware that in the Collections at South Kensington the 

 generic name Tiyiea of Linnaeus is employed for two different genera in two 

 different families of the Lepidoptera ? What steps does he propose to take as 

 to this second usage in a new and unfamiliar sense of an ancient and well- 

 known name whose application has been undoubted for generations ? " The 

 President, Mr. Bethune-Baker, and Mr. Neave spoke on the subject, and 

 eventually it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Bethune-Baker, seconded by 

 Mr. Durrant, that Sir George Hampson should be invited to take part in the 

 discussion of the question at the December meeting. 



Wednesday, November 'ilst, 1917. — Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A,, President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following Fellows were nominated as Officers and Members of Council 

 for the ensuing year : — President, Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A. ; Treasurer, W. 

 G. Sheldon ; Secretaries, Comm. James J. Walker, M.A., R.N., F.L.S., 

 Rev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. ; Librarian, George Charles Champion, 



