SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 159 



the crimson costal streak was continued along the outer margin almost to 

 the inner margin, taken by Mr. Fowler at Ringwood, Hants, in 1893; a 

 variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, taken by Mr. Mead in Epping Forest in 

 1893 ; and a series of black and other forms of Phigalia pedaria, bred during 

 the present year from a black female captured last spring by Mr. Rose, of 

 Barnsley. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. C. B. Taylor, of Jamaica, a beautifully 

 coloured drawing of the larva of Papilio homerus, Fab. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited drawings showing the complete life-history 

 of Argynnis aglala and A. adippe, every stage being figured ; also enlarged 

 drawings of the segments of the larvae in their first and last stages, showing 

 the remarkable difference in structure. Mr. Merrifield commented on the 

 excellence of the drawings. 



Mr. G. C. Champion read a paper entitled " On the Tenebrionida 

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

 voyage of H.M. Ship ' Penguin,' with descriptions of new genera and 

 species"; and he exhibited the specimens comprised in the collection. 

 Mr. J. J. Walker and Colonel Swinhoe made some remarks on the paper. 



Mr. Champion also read a paper entitled " An Entomological Excursion 

 to Corsica," in which he described an expedition to the mountains of that 

 island in May and June, 1893, in company with Mr. R. S. Standen, Mr. A. H. 

 Jones, Colonel Yerbury, R.A., Mr. Lemann, Mr. Raine, and others. Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin, Colonel Yerbury, and Colonel Swinhoe took part in the 

 discussion which ensued. 



Mr. Edward Saunders communicated a paper entitled " A List of 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera collected by Mr. Champion in Corsica, with a 

 description of one new species." 



Mr. W. F. Kirby read a paper entitled " Notes on Dorydium west- 

 woodi, Buchanan White, with observations on the use of the name 

 Dorydium." 



Mr. Charles B. Taylor communicated a paper entitled " Description of 

 the larva and pupa of Papilio homerus, Fab." — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



March lAth. — Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. William Bateson, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; 

 Mr. H. Caracciolo, of the Port of Spain, Trinidad; Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, of 

 53, Montague Square, W. ; and the Rev. Frank E. Lowe, M.A., of St. 

 Stephen's Vicarage, Guernsey, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited a collection of White Ants (Termites), formed by 

 Mr. G. D. Haviland in Singapore, which comprised about ten or twelve 

 species, of most of which the various forms were obtained. He said that 

 Professor Grassi had recently made observations on the European species, 

 and had brought to light some important particulars ; and also that, in the 



