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Election of Fellows. 



Mr. Arthur W. Bacot, 154 Lower Clapton Road, London, 

 N.E., Mr. Edward Martin Dadd, 3 Colina Villas, Green 

 Lanes, Wood Green, N., Mr. George Frederick Leigh, 

 Musgrave Road, Durban, Natal, Mr. Rupert S. Lower, 

 Oswaldton, Bartley Crescent, Wayville, South Australia, Mr. 

 John Crampton Wilkinson Kershaw, Macao, China, Mr. 

 Henry Woolner Peal, Indian Museum, Calcutta, Mr. 

 Ethelbert Forbes Skertchly, Hong-Kong, and Mr. Arthur 

 Smith, 5 Cavendish Street, Grimsby, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited two imperfectly developed 

 females of Osmia leucomelana found dead in a bramble stem 

 at Woking with their cases. 



Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a series of Colias hyale taken at 

 Folkestone during August 1900-1, including one 3 dwarf, one 

 3 with smoky hindwings, one 3 with the edge of the hind- 

 wings showing a double row of serrated curves, three 3 c£ 

 with very deep yellow colouring and with spots in the centre 

 of the hindwings twice the normal size, one 3 underside with- 

 out spots, one 3 showing a row of black dots running parallel 

 round the fore- and hindwings, also one 9 with the edge of the 

 hindwings showing a double row of serrated curves, one $ with 

 extra deep border to the fore wings, and one $ with only half 

 the usual border to the forewings. 



Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited a specimen of Trachi/phloeus 

 myrmecophilus, Seidl., taken at Hastings in September last, 

 retaining intact the deciduous " false mandibles," with the aid 

 of which the imago of the species of this and certain other 

 genera of weevils is said to work its way to the surface after 

 emerging from the pupa underground. These mandibles are 

 usually shed as soon as the imago begins its life above ground, 

 as there is no further use for them. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a collection of butterflies made by 

 him in Trinidad, including several hitherto undescribed species. 

 He said that the probable total rhopalocerous fauna was about 

 250 species, the island — about the size of Somersetshire — being 



