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mitted. He resided at Ventnor and Eichmond alternately ; and so enjoyed oppor- 

 tunities for study in good localities ; one of his best captures being Lithocharis 

 maritima on tlie Isle of Wight coast. He became a Member of the Entomological 

 Society in 1850. He contributed some notes to the " Intelligencer," and various 

 scattered small papers to the "Zoologist." Some of his minute investigations are 

 recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society. Mr. Q-uyon (a 

 near relative, as we believe, of the Hungarian Q-eneral of the same name) died at 

 his residence, South GlifE, Ventnor, on 28th February last, aged 53. 



Entojiological Society of London : Gth 3Iarch, 1878.— H. W. Bates, Esq., 

 F.L.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. Woodgate was elected a Member. 



Mr. Moore exhibited, at the request of Sir W. H. Gregory, late Governor of 

 Ceylon, a very extensive series of coloui-ed drawings executed by native artists, illus- 

 trating the transformations of a large number of the Lepidoptera inhabiting that 

 island. It was hoped that the Q-overnment of Ceylon might be induced to publish 

 them. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a collection of fossil insects from the leaf-beds of Bourne- 

 mouth, obtained by Mr. J. S. Gardner. There were numerous Coleoptera and some 

 Neuroptera, including a finely-preserved anterior- wing of an JSschna. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited four recently published parts (relating to entomology) 

 of the gz'eat Russian work, " Fedtschenko's Travels in Turkestan." One of these 

 concerned Coleoptera, two related to Hymenopiera, &c., and one to Arachnida. 

 Attention was drawn to the excellence of such of the plates as had been executed 

 entirely in Russia. 



Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale read notes on South-African insects : first, on the 

 variation in Pieris Severina and Mesentina, apparently suggesting that one is a 

 form of the other : secondly, on the habits of Termes trinervius, especially with re- 

 gard to the cephalic process of the " soldiers," which he found have a duct running 

 through it, and a perforation at the end, through which a gummy liquid was excreted, 

 smelling strongly acid and discolouring litmus paper*: thirdly, on the metamorphoses 

 of Fyrgus Elma and Ismene Florestan, the larvae of both of which fed principally 

 during the night. 



Mr. E. Saunders read " Remarks on the hairs of some of oiu* British Hymenop- 

 iera," from microscopic examination, of nearly all the genera of Acideata. He found 

 branched or plumose hairs characteristic of the Anthophila, but of no use for sub- 

 divisional classification ; he suggested that they might be of use in collecting pollen. 

 Those of the Fossores, Heterogyna, and Dip/optera, were simple. 



Mr. Butler read a paper on the natural affinities of the Lepidopterous Family 

 ^geriidce, in which he repudiated the existence of any structural affinities of these 

 insects with the Sphingidce, and suggested a relationship with the Pyrales on the one 

 hand and the Gelechiidce on the other. 



The Secretary read a paper, by Mr. A. II. Svvinton, on the " Biology of Insects 

 as determined by the emotions." 



Mr. P. Cameron communicated a paper on some new genera and species of 

 TenthredinidcB. 



* This habit was noticed by Osten-Sacken in connection with T. Rippertii in Cuba.— R. McL. 



