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James Dow, The Cottage, Tjynwood Avenue, Epsom ; Leslie John William 

 Newman, Dept. of Ao-riculture, Perth, W. Australia. 



Mr. F. H. Gi-avely exhibited lantern slides illustrating the connection 

 between asymmetry and geographical distribution in the Indo-Australian 

 Passalids. Mr. F. Enock, photographs of the $ and 9 of a new Mymarid. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe, s^jecimens of tiie rare myrmecophilous Diptera, Platyphora 

 luihocki, Verrall, Aenigmatias hlattoides, Meinert, and Feyerimhoffa brachyptera, 

 Kieff. The Hon. N. C. Rothschild, specimens of Zygeena Jilipendulx from the Isle 

 of Lismore, Scotland, and an example resembling them from Folkestone ; also 

 specimens of Chrysophanus dispar, var. rutilus, from Hungary and other locali- 

 ties. Mr. H. Rowland-Brown brought for exhibition examples of Chrysophanus 

 dispar, var. rutilus, captured by him in the marshes of the Gironde l>elow 

 Bordeaxix, to compare with the miich larger form taken in Hungary by 

 Mr. N. C. Rothschild; also a specimen of Agriades coridon, var. syngrapha. 

 Kef., taken in the Chiltern Hills, being the first ever recorded therefrom, 

 with several examples of this variety taken by him at Dompierre-sur-Mer ; 

 and other aberrations. Capt. E. B. Purefoy, a short series of Gonepteryx 

 cleopatra which inclvided two gynandi'omorphoiis specimens. Mr. L. W. Newman, 

 four gynandromorphous specimens of Smerinthus populi, three with the left 

 side ? , and right side ^ , and one vice versa. Also four ciu'ious 9 specuuens of 

 A. coridon, three having the right pairs of wings much smaller than the left and 

 heavily dvisted with bltxe scales, the left side being normal ; also one specimen 

 similar but vice versa. All were taken wild in Herts in 1913. Dr. G. W. 

 Nicholson showed a specimen of Pterostichus aterrimus, Pk., from Cloverhill, 

 Co. Cavan. Mr. E. E. Green, a transfer of a remarkable aberration of Telchinia 

 violse. Fab., taken by Mr. G. Halkett, in the district of Kurunegala, Ceylon ; 

 also Jassidm from Ceylon, parasitised by an undetermined species of Gonatopv^s. 

 The Rev. G. Wheeler, on behalf of Miss Macbride, a niunber of living specimens 

 of the Longicorn beetle Acanthocinus wdilis, L., taken in a timber yard at Bow. 

 Dr. Longstaff, on behalf of Mrs. Watei-field, a box of Sudanese Pierine Butter- 

 flies taken by her, and on which she contributed a series of interesting notes. 

 Prof. Poixlton, a set of four males and one female, and another of two males and 

 one female, of Metriorrhynchus semijiahellatus, Thorns. Also the following 

 insects bred by Mr. W. A. Lamborn fi'om the nests of Hymenoptera Aculeata, at 

 Moor Plantation, West Africa: 1 -a male Megachile cincta (September 17th), 

 and the Cantharid beetle, Zointis ehorina, Fahr. (September 17th). 2 — Odytierus 

 sp. inc. (September 17th) : The species exists unnamed in the collection of the 

 British Museum. 3 — A female Mutilla floralis, Klug : " This female Mutillid 

 emerged July 26th, from a mud nest, probably that of Sceliphron spirifex, L., 

 found July 14th." 4! — Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) sp. inc. (July 26th), Chrysis 

 (Tetrachrysis) lyncea, F. (August 3rd), and Sceliphron spirifex, h., ? (July 31st). 

 All three insects emerged at the recorded dates from " mud nest of S. spirifex, 

 found in my store Jixly 20th." — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



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