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Griinsbaw, F.E.S., of the Ediiiburgli J\ruseiiui. On this occaf^ioii Diptera were 

 the subject of iiivesti<ration, and an interesting and instructive talk on the 

 order was given by Mr. Grimshaw at the close of the ramble. It is hoped to 

 ariange similar meetings annually, when other authorities on various on'ers 

 will be present, and thus give a stimulus to the study of entomology in tlie 

 county. — W. J. FoHDHAM, Hon. Sec. 



Thk South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 ISlovember Wth, 1920.— Mr. K. G. Blair, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. F. Hemming, F.L.S., F.E.S., Treasury Chambers, S.W. 1, was 

 elected a member. 



Mr. Grosvenor exhibited numerous species of Lhnenitis, AtJn/t)if/, and 

 Neptis from Thibet and the Indo-Malay Region. Mr. Newman, gradations 

 from the dark Ranuoch form to the very light southern form of Polyploca 

 flavicornis. Mr. Barnett, a Mimas tiliae with the usual transverse bar reduced 

 to a small trianjiular discal spot. Mr. B, S. Williams, a suhradiata form and 

 a caeruleopxmctata form of Rumicia phlaeas from Finchley. Mr. A. A. W. 

 Buckstone, several series oi Hygrochroa syringaria, bred and inbred from larvae 

 taken at Wimbledon in 1913, 1915, and 1919, with captured specimens, and 

 read notes on the pairings and broods obtained ; he also showed living pupae 

 and imagines of Pyrameis atalanta, and full-fed larvae of Abrnxaa y)-<)s.sn- 

 lariata. Br. i)ixey, F.R.S., read a paper on " Sexual Dimorphism," illustrating 

 his remarks with a large number of coloured diagrams and a series of lantern- 

 slides. — Hy. J. Turner, Hun. Editor of I'Toceedinys. 



SOME NEW ORTHOPTEEA FROM THE CAUCASUS. 

 EY B. P. UYAROV. 



The following new Ortlioptera are described from speoinu'us in tlie 

 Caucasian Museum (Tiflis), where the types are preserved : — 



1. POECILIMONELLA, gen. nov. 



c? . Generibus Poeciliinon Fieb. et Barhitistes Charp. proximus. Caput 

 parvum, subglohosum, vertice valde declivi, fastigio tuberculato minimo, supra 

 pianissimo et ])arum sulcaio. Antennae tenues (longitudine iucerta). I'ro- 

 notum subcylindricum, leviter sellaeformiter impressum, sulco transverso typico 

 ante medium sito, metazona baud dilatata et parum evanescente, postice late 

 triangulariter emarginata, elytia usque ad venam plicatam tegente. Elytium 

 sinistrum margine interno angulum rectum formans, ante angulum diium 

 rotuudato emarginatum. Meso- et metasternum transversa, foramina basalia 

 liberantia. Femora antica pronoto parum longiora. Abdomen cyliudricum. 

 segmento ultimo ut in Poecilimone constructo. Lamina supra-analis rotundata, 

 valde impressa. Cerci crassi, hirsuti, pone medium incurvi, sub lamina sub- 

 genitali apicibus obtuse conicis nigris subcontigni. Lamina subgenitalis 

 magna, parte postica valde evanescens, navicularis, apice parum dilatato, tri- 

 auLTulariter einaryinato. 



