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October 2nd, 1895. 
Professor Eaphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the 
Chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced and thanks voted 
to the respective donors. 
Election of Fellows. 
Mr. George H. Carpenter, B.Sc, of the Science and Art 
Museum, Dublin ; and Herr Paul Krantz, of Pretoria, 
Transvaal, South Africa, were elected Fellows of the Society. 
ExJiihitions. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Bradley, of 
Birmingham, the specimens of Diptera attacked by an 
entomophthorous fungus of the genus Em,pusa, of which an 
account had recently appeared in the " Entomologist's 
Monthly Magazine " for August, 1895, p. 178. 
Mr. H. Tunaley exhibited specimens of Lohoplwra viretata 
from the neighbourhood of Birmingham-. Specimens of the 
green dark form were shown in their natural positions on the 
bark, and specimens of the yellow form were shown on leaves 
on which they rested. 
Mr. J. W. Tutt exhibited, for Mr. Anderson, of Chichester, 
cases formed by a Lepidopterous insect received from the 
Argentine Republic, which he said he recognised as being 
either identical with, or closely allied to, Thyridopteryx 
ephemera-formis, which did great damage to many orchard and 
forest trees in North America. He observed that Dr. J. B. 
Smith gave an account of its life history in the Report of the 
Ent. Dept. of the New Jersey Ayr. Exp. Sta. for 1894. Ac- 
cording to this the male has quite a Psychid appearance, the 
female turns in the case, but without leaving it, and in this 
position is fertilised by the male. After copulation she re- 
turns in the case and lays her eggs in the empty pupa case. 
According to Prof. Smith the eggs do not hatch till the 
following spring, but this seems to be an error, for it appears 
if a case be cut open that the pupa case is about equally filled 
with eggs and newly hatched larvae. He thought it possible 
