SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 161 



Entomological Society of London. 



March 6th. — Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Messrs. H. T. 

 Dobson, Herbert Massey, Thomas M. McGregor, Sidney Crompton, B. H. 

 Crabtree, and G. A. K. Marshall. 



Mr. B. G. Nevinson exhibited a series of Heliothis peltigera, bred 

 from larvae found on the Dorsetshire coast during July, 1894, feeding on 

 the flowers of Ononis arvensis ; a few also were taken on Hyoscyamus niger. 

 All the larvae went down by the end of July. The first emergence took 

 place on August 20th, and they continued coming out at the rate of about 

 five a day through the rest of that month and September ; only five emerged 

 in October, and the last on Nov. 11th. 



Mr. Bower exhibited a variable species of Scoparia basistrigalis, Knaggs, 

 showing light, intermediate, and dark forms, taken at Bexley, Kent, from 

 June 12th to July 7th, 1891-94. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited larvae of Pronuba ynccasella, which he 

 received more than four years ago from Colorado, and which were still 

 living. One specimen of the moth had emerged two years ago. 



Mr. Goss exhibited, for Mr. G. C. Bignell, a pupa of a Tortrix with the 

 larval legs, and also a specimen of a sawfiy, Emphytus cinctus, L., with 

 eight legs. 



Professor Meldola exhibited a wooden bowl from West Africa, from 

 which, after arrival in this country, a number of beetles (Dermestes vulpinus) 

 had emerged. Specimens of the latter were also exhibited. It was gene- 

 rally considered that the larvae excavated the wood for the purposes of pupa- 

 tion, and not for food. 



Mr. Champion read a paper " On the Heteromerous Coleoptera collected 

 in Australia and Tasmania by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., during the voyage of 

 H.M.S. 'Penguin,' with descriptions of new genera and species," Part II. 



Mr. Roland Trimen contributed a paper " On some new Species of 

 Butterflies from Tropical and extra-Tropical South Africa." 



Mr G. A. James Rothney contributed " Notes on Indian Ants," and 

 seut for exhibition a number of specimens in illustration of the paper, 

 together with nests of certain species. 



March %0th. — Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Messrs. Claude Morley, Herbert E. Page, W. W. Smith, and Henry 

 Tunaley were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe exhibited a living female of Dytiscus 

 marginalia with elytra resembling those of the male insect. Dr. Sharp said 



