LIXNEAN SOCIETT OF LOIsTDON, 4 7 



Professor AV. A. IIebdman referred to his paper at the hist 

 meeting on the abundance of a Peridinium at Port Erin, and 

 stated that he visited tliat locality a few days after ilie said 

 meeting, and found similar markings on the sand, but on the 

 latter occasion it was due to vast numbers of a Diatom, Navicula 

 AnijJiisJxena. 



Mr. G. H. Wailes, Prof. Dendy, and Mr. J. C. Shenstone 

 contributed some remarks. 



The following papers were read and discussed : — 



1. Miss H. M. CUNNIXGTOX. — The anatomy of Enludus; 



acofoides, Rich. (Communicated by Pi'of. Percy GtUoom, 

 P.L.S.) 



2. Prof. A. D. Imms. — On the life-history of Croce fiJ'tpennis, 



AVestw. (Communicated by Canon Eoweeu, F.L.8.) 



3. Prof. J. J". KiEFFER. — Cynipidse. 



4. The same. — Proctotrupoidea. 



5. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. — Apoidea. 

 fi. Mr. J. C. F. Prykr. — Lepidoptera. 



7. Mr. G-. Meade- Waldo. — AV'asps. 



8. Mr. J. E. CorxiN.— Borborida^. 



9. 'J'he same. — Phorida). 



10. Mr. P. \. Theobald. — Culicid?e. 



(The last eight papers, relating to the fauna of the 

 Seychelles, were communicated by Prof. J. Stanley 

 Gardiner, P.E.S., F.L.S.) 



The first exhibition was by Mr. P. Enock, who showed a series 

 of slides illasti-ating several species of the minute hymenopteron 

 Mymar, especially the recently-discovered M.regalishom. Burnham 

 Beeches. 



Dr. George Henderson, F.L.S., exhibited a lantern-slide, 

 made from a snapshot of the head of a AVaterbiick, Cohus ellijtsi- 

 prymmis, taken by his son, Mr. Fred. L. Henderson, of the 

 British East African Medical Service, at Nairobi. 



Mr. AV. Fawcett, F.L.S., showed: — 



(a) A Parasitic Flowering Plant from Jamaica {Scyhallam 

 jamaicense, Schott & Eudl.). 



(h) Flowers of Banana (Musa paradisiaca var. snpientum). 



The cultivated Banana-plant attains its full height before the 

 flowers are formed. The trunk is a hollow cylinder formed by 

 the bases of the leaf-stalks. The flowering-stalk first a])pears as 

 a projection from the tuber into the base of the cylinder. The 

 first flowers are formed while the stalk is quite short, and appa- 

 rently it takes about six weeks for it to grow from the base until 

 it emerges at the apex. The flowers exhibited were taken before 

 emergence. They occur in clusters spirally arranged round the 



