They were taken in Surrey. Also a male example of the Dipteron 

 Ctennphora fiaveolata (?) belonging to the Tipididn', from Surrey. 



Mr. H. Main exhibited (1) a small cockroach found among 

 bananas, the colour of which it closely resembled. It was supposed 

 to be a species of Panchlora. (2) Male and female of the burying 

 beetle Necrophorus huwator covered with Acari. At first there were 

 only a few Acari on each. When a piece of meat was placed in the 

 box the Acari left the beetles and attached themselves to the meat. 

 Now they had again settled on the beetles, and since their number 

 had increased so as to almost completely cover them, the Acari 

 must have bred while on the meat. It was asked what use the Acari 

 were to the Coleopteron; Were they simply parasites, or were they 

 scavangers, or did they use the beetles merely as means of 

 transport ? And (3) nearly full fed larvae of the " firefly " Luciola 

 italica bred from ova laid in 1914. He thought that these larvae 

 would possibly not produce imagines until 1917, thus passing three 

 winters in their pre-imaginal stages. 



Mr. West reported the nest of a Tit in an iron pipe, which was 

 lying in an oblique position against a fence, and Mr. Piatt Barrett 

 called attention to the almost complete denudation of the foliage 

 of the oaks in the London District by the attacks of the larvae of 

 Tortri.c riridana and other species. 



JUNE 22nd, 191(5. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a specmien of the fungus 

 Poluporiis suljihureits found on an oak trunk at Dulwich by Mr. C. 

 W. Colthrup, and read the following note : — 



"Plant very polymorphous in its shape, and unequal in size, 

 composed of a number of mostly imbricated pilei, more or less 

 grown together, so as to form one mass from which the rounded 

 and lobed margins of the pilei project in a tiled manner or shoot 

 out into various excrescences, or even somewhat cylindrical, simple 

 or divided branches, the whole sometimes attaining two or three 

 feet in breadth. Colour yellowish, orange, red, or a bright union 

 of these hues, fading in age, the spores always of a fine sulphur tint 

 when old, dry and friable, never coriaceous." 



Mr. Edwards also exhibited several teeth of a shark, Oduiitaspis 

 cuspidata, found at Eltham, Kent, in the Woolwich Beds of the 

 Lower Eocene. This shark was of moderate size, chiefly inhabiting 



