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with four others of the same species. Both sexes were shown. Bat 

 AND Parasitical Dipteron. — Mr. F. Muir exhibited two specimens of 

 the bat Minioptenis schreibersi, with $ Ascodipteron embedded at the 

 base of the ear. He also showed specimens and enlarged drawings of 

 the <? , ? , winged and wingless, larva and puparium of the Asco- 

 dipteron, and read the following note : — " These all came from 

 Amboyna (Dutch E. Indies). The male and winged female hatch out 

 as normal imagines, the female, after finding her host, cuts her way 

 under the skin at the base of the ear, and then casts her legs and 

 wings; her abdomen develops to an enormous extent, and entirely 

 envelopes her head and thorax so that she appears as a " bottle- shaped" 

 grub without legs or head. The larvfe develop in the uterus in the 

 usual pupiparous manner, and when full grown pass out through 

 the vagina and fall to the ground, where they immediately pupate, 

 hatching out as imagines in about thirty to thirty-one days. This 

 species I have named Ascodipteron speiserianum, after Dr. Paul 

 Speiser, the authority on this group of flies. I took another species 

 in North Queensland, living on the same species of bat." Forced 

 Enodia hyperanthus.— Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. G. B. Oliver of Wolverhampton, a series of E. hyperanthus bred 

 during January and February, 1911, from ova laid by a Leamington 

 2 in July, 1910. The larvae were fed in glass-topped metal boxes in 

 a warm room (the fire being out at night). The specimens, though 

 rather small, showed a great tendency to produce large spots both on 

 the upper and under side. Longicorn Beetle from Hyeres. — Mr. H. 

 J. Turner exhibited living specimens of a Longicorn Beetle, Agapanthia 

 asphodeU, sent by Dr. Chapman from Hyeres. Commander Walker 

 observed that he had found it in Malta (the only common Longicorn 

 there), and also at Gibraltar in the early spring, and always on asphodel. 

 May Srd. — The death of two Fellows of the Society, the Eev. Canon 

 Cruttwell and Mr. W. A. RoUason were announced. The President 

 informed the Society that the authorities of the Science Museum had 

 persuaded the Government to allow them to take a portion of the land 

 belonging to the Natural History Museum, at South Kensington, for the 

 purpose of erecting new buildings of their own, thereby precludingmuch- 

 needed additions to the Natural History Museum, especially in the Ento- 

 mological Department, and on the motion of Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, 

 seconded by Dr. Dixey, the resolution which we printed on p. 156 

 was passed unanimously. Mr. L. 0. Waterhouse and Rev. G. Wheeler 

 having given further information as to the damage threatened to the 

 Museum, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown moved that " If a deputation 

 be appointed to wait on Mr. Runciman with regard to this matter, the 

 Officers and Council of the Entomological Society desire to be 

 represented on it." This was seconded by Mr. Bethune-Baker and 

 carried unanimously. A Rare British Beetle. — Commander J. J. 

 Walker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Geo. Brown, of Coatbridge, 

 Lanarkshire, living specimens of Helophorus tuberculatus, GylL, 

 hitherto exceedingly rare as a British insect. These were taken by 

 Mr. Brown at the end of April, walking about on bare dry peaty soil 

 on the moors near Coatbridge. Abnormal Beetle. — Mr. 0. E. Janson 

 exhibited a new and remarkable Lamellicorn beetle, belonging 

 to the Cremastochilides group of the Cetoniidae, in which the anterior tarsi 

 were unmistakably six-jointed. The specimen was received from Uganda. 

 Varieties of Aplecta nebulosa. — Mr. A. Harrison exhibited a drawer 



