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lie also drew attention to "Observations on 'Protective Adaptations and 

 Habits, mainly in Marine Animals," published in English, as one of the 

 papers on Dr. Th. Mortenseu's Pacitic Expediiion, 1914-16 (Vidensk. Medd. 

 fra. Dansk naturhist. Foren., Bd. 69, pp. 57-96, pi. i), and especially the 

 "Observations on Insects" (p. 83). Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. J. J. Joicey, an apparently very rare Dioptid moth, Bioptis peUuc'uJa 

 Warr., and contributed notes on its mimetic association with a group of small 

 Tthomiine species. Mr. Frisby, an ant's nest, jind also thiee cells of Zethus 

 cyonopte) ?«>•, a wasp of the family Euinenidae, sent by Mrs. M. E. Walsh, F.E.S., 

 from Soekabnemi, Java, and read notes. Tlie President, 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 the 

 species, and observed that similar instances of longevity were on record. 

 Dr. Turner read a note on Mr. Tilly ard's discovery of the jugo-frenate wing 

 structure in certain Australian Micropterygidae. 



Wednesday, 3Inrch 20th, 1918.— Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



2nd Lieut. William Proctor Smith, F.Z.R., Iladdon House, Ashton-on- 

 INIersey, and Messrs. John Henr}' Watson, 70 Ashton Road, Withington, 

 Manchester, and Ronald Senior White, Suduganga Estate, Matale, of the 

 Board of Agriculture, Ceylon, were elected Fellows of the Society. Dr. Paul 

 Marchal, President of the Entomological Society of Fi'ance, 89 Rue du Cherche- 

 Midi, Paris, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 



Dr. A. J. Turner gave an abstract of his paper, entitled " Observations on 

 the Lepidopterous Family Cossidae, and on the Classification of the Lepi- 

 doptera,'' illustrated by drawings of neuration, shown in the epidiascope. 



Wednesday, April Srd, 1918. — The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Allan Chilcott Parsons, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., Sanitary Officer 

 West African Medical StaiF, and Temp. Capt. R.A.M.C, School of Army 

 Sanitation, Aldershiot, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



On behalf of Mr. Prideaiix, the Secretary exhibited two black and two 

 green living pupae of F. megaera, and read notes. Mr. Bacot gave an account 

 of experiments as to the distribution of trench fever by lice. The Rev. F. I), 

 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 Perga. The President said that he bad found Kirby's ' 

 authority for the " tapping'' oi Anohium striatum with its mandibles, but sus- 

 pected an error in the identification of the species; also that the Danish naturalist 

 Jensen Haarup spoke of A. pertinax 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 pro- 

 bable that the tapping was really made by the book-louse. Comm. Walker 

 felt sure that he had heard A. striatum tapping where no X. tessellatum were 

 present. — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



