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Dixey, specimens of Nychitoni and Leiiceronia, remarking on their resemblance 

 extending to habits and flight. Mr. R. Adkiu, a 5-spotted specimen of Anthrocera 

 fdipendulae, capttired in a field at the top of the downs near Otford, Kent. 

 Mr. E. A. Butler, a series of Brachyartkrum limitatum Fieb., a Capsid new to 

 the British list, taken in Epping Forest, July 3rd, 1915, on aspen ; also a 

 specimen of Timarcha violaceo-nigra De G., witli the left intermediate lep- 

 furnished with two tarsi, placed upon a much broadened tibia. 



Wednesday, November '6rd, 1915. — The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. H. C. Tytler, Vacoas, Mauritius, and Albert F. Winn, 32, Springfield 

 Avenue, Westmount, Montreal, Canada, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. S. A. Neave exhibited a remarkable and unrecognised species of Acraea, 

 which was described and figured by Latliy, in the Transactions of the Society 

 for 1903, as a Lycaenid, and placed in the genus Teliprm. The name for this 

 species will therefore stand as Acraea actinota Lathy. Mr. Donisthorpe, a series 

 of Scy7n7ius arcuatus Rossi, a bit of a leaf of ivy with the pupal skin of the beetle 

 on it, and larvae of the Aleurodes on which it preys, also the Aleurodes and a 

 Chalcid (Encarsia sp.? $ and $ ) and a Neuropteron parasitic on the Aleurodes, 

 all taken at Stonor Park, August 6th, 1915. He also communicated a paper 

 descriptive of the life-history of tlie Scymnus, sent to him by Mr. J. F. Perry. 

 Prof. Ponlton, a collection of insects, captured February liOth, 1915, at the 

 flowers of a Eucalyptus, at Healesville, Victoria, by Mr. R. Kelly. Mr. Arrow 

 specimens of a new species of Thanmaglossa, bred from the egg-clusters of 

 Mantidae, and read notes. Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, a 

 number of new Lepidoptera from Dutch New Guinea, and read notes. 

 Mr. Stanley Edwards, aberrant butterflies taken by Mr. Dawson viz., an albin- 

 istic specimen of Epinephele jurtina (ab. semialba) ; melanic specimens of 

 Brenthis %tales, Melitaea dictynna, and M. didy^na, a striated specimen of 

 Agriades escheri, and a specimen of Polyommatus hylas with obsolescent spotting. 

 The specimen of M. didyma was taken at Digne, the others in Switzerland. 



The following paper was read: — "On new and little-known species of 

 Xylophilidae," by G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.E.S. — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Sec. 



ON TWO NEW BRITISH COCCIDAE, 



WITH NOTES ON SOME OTHER BRITISH SPECIES. 



BT E. ERNEST GREEN, P.Z.S., F.E.S. 



During the past summer, I have been fortunate in the discovery 

 of two more Coceids that are not only new to the British list, but new 

 to Science. They were both found on grasses, in rough, uncultivated 

 meadows on the outskirts of Camberley. 



One of them — the more remarkable of the two — occurs in some 

 abundance, and it is somewhat surprising tl^at it has hitherto escaped 

 observation. This insect attains a length of rather more than 6 mm., 



