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anffulata, belonging to the Tenebi-ionid Heteromera, from Egypt. 

 The latter were feeding readily on ripe banana. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited a large gall on sallow, from the dunes at 

 Condette, France, from which a number of small Diptera {Cecidn- 

 iinjia sp.) had issued; also much smaller Hymenopterous inquilines. 

 Specimens of both species were shown. Also larvae of Cleora liche- 

 nan'a, from the same locality, where they were abundant on April 

 14th, feeding on the lichen Uamalina caliraris. Several of these had 

 been parasitised, and three pure white cocoons appeared a few days 

 later, from which the Hymenopteron exhibited had emerged since. 

 One of the Cleora larvae had spun up (May 10th), utilising the 

 lichen as covering. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a number of species of Lepidoptera from 

 New Zealand, which had been captured by Maori boys and sent to 

 him. They included Vanesm (/oimrilla, Chri/sophanits naliistitis, 

 Deileniera ossiuiilata, etc. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited specimens of the " Brown-tail 

 Moth " and the " Gold-tail Moth " and read the following note : — 



" For many years we have been calling the Brown-tail by the 

 specific name of clirysoryhoea and the Gold-tail ai<rifiiia or 

 siiiiilis, but it seems that in this we have been quite wrong. In 

 recent conversation with Mr. J. H. Durrant, who has been spending 

 a good deal of time on the correct naming of species, I learned that 

 we should call the Gold-tail rlui/ftorrhoea. This species appears 

 to have been first described by Linnjeus who distinctly says that 

 the species to which he applied the name chri/sorrhoea has the apex 

 of the abdomen yellow bearded. (" Syst. Nat.," Ed. X., p. 502.) 

 As subsequent authors appear to have wrongly applied that naine 

 to the Brown-tail it remained for someone to find a name for it, 

 and this Donovan did, calling it jilineorrhoea. He figures b- th sexes 

 with larva, etc., and says "abdouien bearded and fuscous at end." 

 (" Don. Brit. Ins.," vol. xvi., p. 89, pi. 555.) The genera in which 

 we have been accustomed to place these two species also appear to 

 need revision, their brief synonymy being as follows : — • 

 Brown-tail. 



Xi/iiiiiia, Hb. {= luiinoctea, Hb., in error, Staud. = J(7«.crt, 



Walker.) 

 phaconhoea, Don., ISVd — chnjsorrlioea, Staud., etc. (Non 

 Lin.) 

 Gold-tail. 



Leiicoiiia, Hb., 1805 { = Arcturjiis, Germar, 1811 = A'///>;oc- 



