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markings to stand out very prominently. The President, a specimen of the " Spanish 

 fly," Lytia vesicatoria, taken last June near Newmarket ; he remarked that this 

 handsome beetle was now becoming very rare in England. Mr. Colbran J. Wain- 

 wright, a number of Dipterous insects, including a long series of Anthrax pam'scus, 

 Rossi, taken in Cornwall at the end of July and beginning of August ; a series of 

 Eumerus ornatus, Mg., from Herefordshire, and E. liinulatus, Mg., from Cornwall ; 

 and a specimen of Mallota eristaloides, Loew, taken near Hereford last July. Mr. 

 H. J. Donisthorpe, specimens of Dytiscus dimidiatus , Berg., and D. circumcinctus , 

 Ahr., taken last August in Wicken Fen ; also eight specimens of Athous rhombeus, 

 Oliv., including one of the black aberration, which were taken last June in the New 

 Forest. The Rev. F. D. Morice, three female specimens of Exoneura libanensis, 

 Friese, taken at Brumana on Mt. Lebanon, Beirut ; and, for comparison with them, 

 he showed two specimens of Ceratina cucurhitlna, Rossi, from Switzerland ; he 

 commented upon the remarkable distribution of the genus Exoneura, Smith, this 

 genus having been hitherto recorded only from Australia. Mr. G. J. Arrow read a 

 paper " On Sexual Dimorphism in the Rutelid genus Parastasia." Mr. W. L. 

 Distant contributed " Descriptions of four new species of Cicadidcs ;" and Mr. 

 Claude Fuller a paper " On some species of Western Australian Coccidce." 



JS'ovemher 1.?^, 1899. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Arthur M. Lea, of Hobart, Tasmania ; and Mr. Charles P. Lounsbury, 

 B.Sc., of Cape Town ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited two living specimens of Bostrychus cornutus, Fab., 

 obtained from a wooden stool which was brought from Zanzibar. Mr. C. 0. Water- 

 house, a living example of Maecha Hecate, Chev., a West African species of 

 Longicornia. On behalf of Mr. W. Purdey, of Folkestone, Mr. C. G. Barrett, the 

 following species of Lepidoptera: — Stigmonota trauniana, one specimen, with the 

 costa less spotted than usual ; Lozopera Beatricella, six examples, together with the 

 pupa skins protruding from a stem of Pastinaca sativa ; Peronea cristana, two 

 examples of very fine varieties ; Cledeohia angustalis, two deeply coloured examples ; 

 Cramhus inquinatellus, var. ; Eudorea dubitalis, var. ingratella, two examples ; and 

 Endotricha Jlammealis, four examples of a dark variety. Mr. McLachlan, four 

 examples of Deilephila lineata, taken by Mr. E. W. Hainworth at Victor, Colorado, 

 at an elevation of 9000 ft., on July 23rd, 1899 ; also an ash-twig which had been 

 girdled by hornets, the observation of this curious fact having been made by Mr. 

 W. C. Boyd, of Cheshunt, from whom he received the twig. Dr. T. A. Chapman, 

 specimens of Erebia Jlavofasciata taken at Cam2)olungo at an elevation of 7000 ft. 

 He stated that the species occurred only in those places where there was an outcrop 

 of dolomitic strata belonging to the crystalline schists, and was not met with else- 

 where at that elevation, nor was it to be found in association with the same strata 

 at lower levels. Mr. H. J. Elwes gave a brief account of a collection of Lepidoptera 

 made by Mrs. Nicholl and himself in a part of Bulgaria which had not previously 

 been visited by entomologists. Lyccena eroides, L. Anteros, L. Zephyrus, Melitaa 

 Cynthia, Erebia Gorge, and a species which he believed to be Canonympha Ttjfhon, 

 were a few of several interesting forms to which he directed attention. — J. J. 

 Walker and C. J. Gahan, Ron. Sees. 



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