lilNNEAN SOCIETY OF LOKDOX. II 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "On the Genus Stemona." By C. H. Wright. (Com- 

 uiuuicated by W. Thiselton Dyer, F.E.S., F.L.S.) 



2. " On some Exotic Eossorial Hymeuoptera ia the British 

 Museimi." By Lieut.-Col. C. T. Bingham, F.E.S. (Communicated 

 by Pruf. a. B. Howes, Sec. L.S.) 



April 16th, 1896. 



Mr. W. Percy Sladen, Vice-President, iu the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Vernon Herbert Blackraan and William Betting 

 Hemsley were elected, and Messrs.W. M. Christy, J. W. Cornwall, 

 P. Ewiug, and J. H. Leigh were admitted Fellows of the Society. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Berkeley's types of Fungi." By George Massee, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Internal Anatomy of Bdella'' By A. D. Micbael, 

 F.L.S. 



May 7th, 1896. 



Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Allan Fairfax Crossman was elected a Fellow, and Professor 

 Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Prof. Douglas Houghton Campbell, and 

 Prof. Cbaiies Otis Whitman, Foreign Members of tlie Society. 



In view of tlie approaching Anniversary Meeting, the appoint- 

 ment of Auditors was brought forward, when Messrs. W. Percy 

 Sladen and A. Smith Woodward were elected on behalf of the 

 Council, and Messrs. James Groves and F. J. Hanbury on 

 behalf of the Fellows. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited and made some remarks upon 

 au engraved portrait of Charles Darwin, presented to the Society 

 by Dr. F. Forschheimer, of Cincinnati, to whom a vote of 

 thanks was unanimously passed, on the motion of the President. 



Mr. F. Enock exhibited a series of lantern-slides illustrative 

 of the metamorphosis and habits of the Tiger-Beetle, Cicindela 

 campestrls. He described the peculiar position of the mandibles 

 of the larva as adapted to its mode of capturing prey ; the forma- 

 tion of the burrow ; the spinous process on the eighth segment 

 of the abdomen, used for supporting itself in the burrow; the 

 mode of ejecting small stones or other obstacles met with in the 

 course of work ; and lastly the changes incidental to the pupal 

 state, and the adaptation of the burrow to the altered require- 

 ments of its inmate. 



Mr. Enock also exhibited living specimens of two minute 



