1^0 TSE PEOCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETt 



If the society regard the establishment of such a zoological 

 station desirable, I shall have much pleasure in laying before its 

 next meeting a sketch of the building required, together with a 

 brief table of rules as to the mode in which the station shall be 

 used. 



Note. — A Committee of Members was appointed to consider Baron 

 Maclay's proposal, and to report thereon at the next monthly meeting 

 of the Society. 



Lbpidopteea having the Antlia terminal in a Teretron or Borer. 



By Reginald Bligh Read, M.R.C.S. 



Plate 14. 



Early in the present year, (1878) the enquiry was addressed to 

 the Microscopical Section of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales, on behalf of the President of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society of London, H. T. Slack, Esq — " Whether there existed 

 in the colony any butterflies or moths with a boring proboscis 

 similar to those which attack the orange tree in South Australia ?" 

 which was sent on to this Society to answer. Mr. Slack's enquiry 

 was a little puzzling, since it is the orange and not its tree which 

 is attacked by these Lepidoptera, which are fortunately very rare 

 in those districts adjacent to Sydney which are the chief com- 

 mercial seat of the production of the orange in Australia. 



The fertilisation of flowers by insects has led botanists to bestow 

 particular attention to the arrangements whereby insects are 

 attracted to flowers as well as those various modifications of the 

 organs of the flower by which its cross-fertilisation may be most 

 readily effected. In the study of the antlia of these Lepidoptera 

 which assist in this fertilisation, the entomologist will find a large 

 field, hitherto scarcely touched upon, and which will prove the 

 more interesting, as it will have, probably, an important part in 

 the future classification of Lepidoptera. In the genus which 

 forms the subject of this paper the adaptation of the organ is of a 

 most remarkable character. 



