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forms, bred from a male and female both of the robsoni form, the per- 

 centages being : robsoni (including intermediates) 50%, typical speci- 

 mens 26%, tlioiiipsoiu 24%. Also a series of Boarmia n'l/andata var. 

 conrersaria, from a pairing obtained between a ti/iiical light Hunts ? 

 crossed with a rojiri'isaria J , every specimen being var. conrcrsdria and 

 every one a J . A new Coccid. — Mr. E. E. Crreen exhibited specimens 

 and drawings of a new British Coccid, discovered at Camberley upon 

 grasses in uncultivated meadows, referable to Signoret's genus l^'air- 

 iiiairia (now known 3iS rarafairinairia). Ricmarkaule Hyjienopteha. — 

 The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited : — (1) Gynandromorphous Uylacns 

 {Praxojiis) brevicornis. (2) llttlictiin l(U'vi<iatiii> ^ . In this specimen 

 there were only two cubital cells in each upper wing, as in Dnfovrea, 

 Halictoides, etc. (8) A larva (in spirit) and numerous imagines — all 

 $ S — of the Sawfly Ptenmus (^Lnphyrun) sertifer ( = " Tenthredo pectinata- 

 nifa " of Retzius) with cocoons from which they emerged. Further 

 OBSERVATIONS FROM Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter. — Prof. Poulton Said that, 

 since the June meeting of the Society, he had received several interest- 

 ing letters and boxes of specimens from Dr. Carpenter, and read and 

 exhibited some of them. LiviNcf Myrmkcina graminicola. — Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe exhibited a colony of Mi/niiecina (jrannnicola, Latr., which he 

 had kept in captivity for over five years, his object in showing this 

 colony being to call attention to the number of wmged females which 

 had been reared in the nest this summer. The following papers were 

 read : — " Observations completing an outline of the Life History of 

 Lycaena anon" by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. " Further 

 observations on the last stage of the larva of Lycaena arion," by F. W. 

 Frohawk, M.B.O.U., F.E.S. " A contribution to the Life History of 

 Ayriades esrheri, Hb.," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. " On 

 the early stages of Latiorina {Ljycaena) pyrenaica, Boisd.," by the same. 

 "Notes on the early stages of Scolitantidcfi nrion, Pall.," by the same. 

 " New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands," by J. J. Joicey, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S., and G. Talbot, F.E.S. " Some new Pamas^^il,'' by A. 

 Avinoft', F.E.S. " A new Micropterygid from Australia," by A. Jefferis 

 Turner, M.D., F.E.S. "Record of some new species of the genus 

 Teracolua occurring in the northern territories of the Gold Coast, W. 

 Africa," by. G. C. Dudgeon, F.E.S. " Glossina morsitans, Westw., 

 some notes on the parasitisation of its puptr," by Hereward C. Dollman, 

 F.E.S. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 Aiiyiist 26«/(.— Two Species of Puyllotoma. — Mr. Main exhibited 

 leaves of the sycamore in which were the larva; of the sa\vtly Phyllo- 

 toma aceris, and leaves of alder in which another species of L'hyllotoma 

 fed in a somewhat similar manner. S. American sexually dimorphic 

 Butterflies.— Mr. Edwards, butterflies from S. America of the genera 

 Cybdelis, ("ydoyrannna, ('atom'phih' and Myscdia, showing marked 

 sexual dimorphism. A Hybrid Agriadks. — Mr. Newman, a " blue " 

 captured in Kent in July, which he considered a hybrid between 

 Ayriddes cnridon and A. tlietis, from its coloui' and markings. Chry- 

 soPA OVA. — Mr. Bunnott, ova of the lace wing Clirysopa /lava, each laid 

 on a stalk which were assembled in bunches. Italian Lepidoptera. — 

 Mr, C. B. Williams, a box of Lepidoptera he had met with in the 



