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but for the activity of a man whose death should be mourned 
as a loss by every agriculturist and entomologist in the 
civilised world. If, as Swift says, to make two ears of corn 
or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before 
is to deserve well of mankind, few men have ever deserved 
better than Charles Valentine Riley. 
Lord Walsingham also spoke as to the importance of the 
late Prof. Riley's work, and the respect and regard which he 
had for his estimable personal qualities. 
Election of Fellows. 
Sir Gilbert T. Carter, K.C.M.G., of Government House, 
Lagos, West Africa ; and Mr. Sydney Wacher, F.R.C.S., of 
Dane John, Canterbury, were elected Fellows of the Society. 
ExhibitionSf etc. 
Mr. F. C. Adams exhibited a series of nineteen Merodon 
■equestris, containing several varieties, showing their re- 
semblance to wild bees of the family Apidag, and made a few 
remarks on mimicry. He also exhibited specimens of 
Leptomorphm walkeri, Curt., taken in the New Forest in 
September last, and Melanostoma hyalinatum^ Fin. (male and 
female), from a series of eighteen also taken in the New 
Forest in the latter part of August last. Mr. Adams further 
exhibited a specimen of Spilomyia speciosa, Rossi, from the 
New Forest. Mr. Verrall, Dr. Sharp, and Colonel Yerbury 
made some remarks on these species and their distribution. 
Mr. Enock exhibited, and made remarks on, specimens of 
the mature male and female, and the nest of Atypus picetiSf 
the British Trap-door spider ; also male and female specimens 
of Andrena atriceps and males of A.fulva. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited a long series of 143 males and 25 
females of Erehia nerine^ captured in the Tyrol, partly in the 
Mendel Pass and partly in the Val d'Ampezzo, and read the 
following notes on the species : — " The series of Erehia 
nerine exhibited were captured in the Tyrol, partly in the 
Mendel Pass and partly in the neighbourhood of Cortina in 
the Val d'Ampezzo. Dr. Lang says of the species : * A very 
