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front tarsi have disappeared from all the ball-rolling Scarabmida ; 

 the wings also have gone in Mneniatunt, which seems to be 

 advancing towards a reduction in the legs from six to four. 



Mr. Stanley Hirst describes two parasitic mites new to science : 

 Myocoptex hintoni, from the squirrel, and Psoroptes natalensis, found 

 on cattle at Richmond, Natal. 



In an article on the selection of Helix nemoralis by the song- 

 thrush, Miss Maud D. Haviland says there seems to be no ground 

 for supposing that the banded shells were taken less frequently 

 than the unhanded. 



Messrs. Eltringham and Kaye have pointed out that, amongst 

 the Heliconine butterflies, several that were formerly regarded as 

 distinct species, now turn out to be local races of Heliconius mel- 

 pomene. Probably many other forms which we now call species 

 will be found to be of lower rank. I should imagine that similar 

 results will be discovered with a number of the South American 

 Papilios. 



Mr. E. A. Butler describes a Capsid Hemipteron, Megacoehnn 

 beckeri, as new to Britain ; it was captured at Wey bridge and 

 Oxshott by Mr. Donisthorpe. 



Mr. F. G. Whittle, at Camaughran, near Rannoch, obtained a 

 Tortrix [Ancylis tineana) new to Britain. 



Messrs. R. E. Turner and James Waterston have described a new 

 parasite {Prola;liis //Zoxn/juf), bred from Glossina inorsitans, in 

 Nyasaland. 



Mr. F. W. Edwards (in " Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.") has 

 recorded several fresh instances of Parthenogenesis in the dipterous 

 genera Tnni/tarsus and L'orynoncura. In the same periodical, Mr. 

 W. H. Leigh- Sharpe reports the discovery of the gregarine parasite 

 Fleiirocy^tis citenoti (diploid stage) in the worm Helcdrilus [Allolo- 

 bopJinra) hmf/ns. 



Larvae of Caradrina cubicidaris, hitherto found only on wheat 

 stacks and pea-haulm, have been found feeding on flax at Silver- 

 burn, near Leven, Scotland. 



The Pink Bollworm [Gelechia yossypidla) has been introduced to 

 Egypt from India in badly-ginned cotton lint. 



At several of our meetings during the year one has been struck 

 by the remarkable varieties of Dryas paphia and Linienitis sibilla, 

 obtained in the New Forest. Those who worked the Forest in the 

 " eighties " did not obtain the varieties and gynandromorphs that 

 now fall to the fortunate collectors ; and one is inclined to ask : Is 



