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Mr. Ambrose Quail read papers " On the antennae of the Hepialidie," and 

 " On Epalxiphora axenana," Meyr. Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow read a paper " On the 

 Lapai'ostict Lamelicorn Coleoptera of Grenada and St. Vincent, West Indies." 

 Mr. Thomas Harold Taylor, M.A., communicated " Notes on the Habits of Chirono- 

 mils (Orlhocladius) sordidelhts." Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 communicated " Desci'iptions of some new species of American Erycinidie." Mr. 

 W. L. Distant communicated " Additions to the Rhynchotal Fauna of Central 

 America." Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., F.E.S., read a paper " On the Egg-cases and Early 

 Stages of some Cassididx." 



October 2\st. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Montague Austin Phillips, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., of 22, Petherton Road, 

 Canonbury, N., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. J. H. Keys sent for exhibition a black variety of Carabus nemoralis, Miill., 

 from Dartmoor, recently recorded by him in the Ent. Mo. Mag. Mr. G. C. Champion 

 exhibited a series oi Rosalia alpina, Linn., found by himself on old beech trees at 

 Moncayo, North Spain, in July last. Mr. A. J. Chitty, the larva of Dytiscus 

 Jlavescens, taken at Eastling, Kent. Col. J. W. Yerbury, Gastropkilus nasalis, 

 Linn., taken at Torcross, Devonshire, from the 19th to the 31st of August last. He 

 said that as this rare species differs in a marked degree in its mode of flight, &c., from 

 the common Horse Bot-fly, Gastrophilus equi, it would be as well to draw attention 

 to these differences. Oantrophilus equi, when flying round a horse, visits as a rule 

 the belly and the fore-legs. The ? carries her ovipositor almost horizontal, and she 

 looks when on the wing like the lower two-thirds of the letter Z (Z)- ^- »asalis 

 on the other hand, carries the ovipositor tucked under the belly and almost parallel 

 to the axis of the body ; this gives her when on the wing a peculiar ball-like 

 appearance; 0. nasalis, too, always flies to the horse's head. As a rule, the horse 

 paid no attention to G. equi, but G. nasalis caused it great alarm. The eggs of 

 G. equi were in hundreds on the shoulders and fore-legs of this cart-horse, but 

 although the face and nostrils were searched carefully, neither eggs nor larvae 

 were found thereon. Also Chersodromia hirta. Walk., found commonly on the 

 shore near Prawle Point ; some were obtained by sweeping over seaweed, while 

 others were running about over the sand. Also Pamponerus germanicus, Linn., from 

 Barmouth and Porthcawl, taken in June. This insect appears to frequent the 

 marram grass on the sand hills, and a $ taken at Barmouth on June 27th was 

 pi-eying on a beetle. Mr. A. H. Jones, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, Dr. T. A. Chapman, 

 and Mr. R. W. Lloyd, specimens of the genus Melittea from various European 

 localities, and a discussion on the probable affinities of the several so-called species 

 took place. The President, some forms of M. aurinia taken by Mr. A. H. Hamm 

 at Basingstoke and elsewhere, and M. athalia, M. didyina, and M. Phabe, from Asia 

 Minor and Persia. Dr. Chapman, an album containing photographs of the various 

 stages of the embryo in the egg of Psammotis hyalinalis. 



The President read, and commented upon, a paper received by him on, 

 " Protective Coloration in its relation toj Mimicry, Common Warning Colour, and 

 Sexual Selection," by Mr. Abbot H. Thayer. — H. Rowland-Bkown, Hon. Sec. 



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