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Mayr. The genus of ants to which this species belongs is con- 

 spicuously armed with spines, sometimes having them very long and 

 curved. These two specimens have also a growth from the top of 

 the head, which appears to be of a fungoid nature. The 

 species is distributed from India to Java and Borneo. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a large number of Diptera, set to show 

 the wing-markings, and pointed out that the pattern of these mark- 

 ings frequently showed no connection with the lines of the venation. 

 He also showed Cassida nobilis from Oxshott. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited living bred specimens of Pliymatocera 

 aterriina, the Solomon Seal Sawfly, referred to by the Eev. F. D. 

 Morice in his presidential address to the Entomological Society in 

 1911, and by the exhibitor in the " Ent. Mo. Mag.," 1915 and 

 1917. 



It makes a fairly solid cocoon under ground, from which it 

 escapes by gnawing away a portion to make an opening, not by cutting 

 off a lid. 



Also a bred living example of Hoplocampa testudinea, the apple 

 boring sawfly, which must be fairly common, in view of the apples 

 it destroys whilst they are still small, but is apparently rarely seen. 

 To breed it, the apple must be found as soon as it falls and before 

 the larva leaves it. To escape from its underground cocoon it cuts 

 off a lid. 



Mr. Dods exhibited a specimen of the " false scorpion," Chelifer 

 cancroides, found among books in a tobacco warehouse. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a selection of insects belonging to orders 

 other than Lepidoptera, met with in the New Forest during the 

 month of June, from 1914-1918. 



CoLEOPTERA. — Aseiiiniii .striatum, L., two specimens, 1917. Calli- 

 diiiiii variabile, L., a number of specimens in 1915. Lepttira 

 scittellata, F., common on an old beech tree, 1918. Clytns niysticus, 

 L., one or two from hawthorn blossom each year. Pachyta .scj;- 

 maculata, L., two only in 1917. Anophulera sexi/iittata, F., one or 

 two each year, 1916-1918. Grainnioptera analis, Panz., one only, 

 1916. (t. praeuxfa, F., one in 1915 and two in 1916. Hhayimii. 

 bifasciatioii, F., common each year, variable. Elater scou/iiinolejitus, 

 Sch.; common each year, a few yellow forms. E. ponionae, Stephens, 

 two specimens in 1918. Corynibites tessellatus, L., one or two each 

 year. Lytta vesicatoria, L., one on Hants coast, 1918. Pyroc/iroa 

 cocanea, L., one on a beechlog, 1918. Iscluwmera xanynmicoUis, F., 

 1916 and 1917, one each year. Antha.via nitidula, L., one beaten 



