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present high prices of printing, etc., the sum which has to be found 

 annually is now between £1500 and £2000, and it is very much 

 feared that unless a more cordial support is forthcoming from 

 zoological workers in general it may be necessary to cease publication 

 in the near future. The annual subscription for the complete 

 volume is £2 10s. ; for the Insecta 15s. It is most earnestly to be 

 hoped that the publication may not cease from lack of support on 

 the part of entomologists. 



Wicken Fen Fund. — This fund is raised annually by entomolo- 

 gists to assist in defraying the expenses incurred by the Custodian of 

 Wicken Fen, the National Trust, in administering and preserving the 

 Fen, and in providing a watcher to protect the plants and wild life 

 dwelling therein. Contributions are earnestly solicited ; they should 

 be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, W. G. Sheldon, Youlgreave, South 

 Croydon. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, March 

 1st, 1922.— The Et. Hon. Lord Eothschild, F.E.S., etc., President, in 

 the Chair. — The following were elected Fellows of the Society : Mrs. 

 Margaret Eae, Courthill, Birkenhead; Dr. A. F. Eosa, M.D., 28, 

 Pitt Street, Edinburgh ; Mr. Frank Eussell, F.G.S., Auldam House, 

 Worksop ; and Capt. Francis Moysey, Suffolk Eegiment, Talodi, 

 Nuba Mountains, Sudan. — The Treasurer made a statement on the 

 Wicken Fen Fund. He called attention to the valuable work that is 

 being done on this Nature reserve and made an appeal for contribu- 

 tions towards its maintenance. — The Treasurer announced that the 

 late Mr. G. A. J. Eothney had bequeathed the sum of £150 to the 

 Society. — The President announced the death of Prof. Geldart, and 

 a vote of condolence with his relatives was passed. — Dr. Waterston 

 exhibited a Brazilian bee, Melipona scutellaris, Latr., taken near 

 Brighton ; also a stem of Arundo phragmites from which numerous 

 pupae of a Chalcid, Geniocerus flavimanus, Thorn., were projecting. 

 — Mr. H. Mace, a number of butterflies from the neighbourhood of 

 Khartoum. — Mr. Adkin, Diaphora viendicav&v. venosa, Ad., from Co. 

 Tyrone, and compared it with other races of the species. — Mr. E. B. 

 Ashby, numerous insects of various orders from Piedmont, Italy. — 

 Prof. E. B. Poulton reads some notes on the utilisation of derived 

 plant pigments in the colouring of Lepidoptera ; he also read a^ 

 communication from the late Dr. T. A. Chapman on germinal 

 "factors'' and their independent existence and development. — Mr. 

 Hugh Main read some notes on the metamorphoses of Onthophagus 

 laurus, L., illustrated with some remarkable lantern-slides.— The 

 following papers were read: " Gynandromorphous Plebeius argus, L.," 

 by Dr. E. A. Cockayne; "Butterflies from the Nile," by Mr. H. 

 Mace ; " Types of Oriental Carabidae in the Stettin Museum," by Mr. 

 H. E. Andrewes ; and " New Genera and Species of Neotropical 

 Curculionidae," by Dr. G. A. K. Marshall.— S. A. Neave, Secretary.' 



The South London Entomological Society. — Annual Meeting, 

 January 26th, 1922.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., Vice-President, 



