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  Mag." 
  for 
  July, 
  entitled 
  " 
  Gynarchy 
  in 
  Coleoptera," 
  by 
  Mr. 
  D. 
  

   Sharp, 
  F.R.S., 
  and 
  thought 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  useful 
  if 
  workers 
  in 
  all 
  

   orders 
  recorded 
  facts 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  bearing 
  on 
  parthenogenesis. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edwards 
  then 
  exhibited 
  some 
  very 
  finely 
  executed 
  Diagrams 
  

   of— 
  

  

  1. 
  Phylloxera 
  vastatrix, 
  its 
  life-history, 
  and 
  its 
  ravages 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  vine. 
  

  

  2. 
  Hylesinus 
  piniperda, 
  Bostriclius 
  sp., 
  Scolytus 
  sp., 
  and 
  Clerns 
  sp., 
  

  

  and 
  their 
  method 
  of 
  destruction 
  in 
  pine 
  and 
  other 
  trees. 
  

  

  3. 
  Doryphora 
  decemlineata 
  (The 
  Colorado 
  Beetle), 
  its 
  life-history 
  

  

  and 
  structure, 
  on 
  each 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  gave 
  notes. 
  

  

  Communications 
  were 
  read 
  from 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  W, 
  Dennis, 
  who 
  reported 
  

   Vanessa 
  io 
  larvae 
  as 
  extremely 
  common 
  in 
  parts 
  of 
  Essex, 
  but 
  butter- 
  

   fly 
  imagines 
  were 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  common 
  ; 
  from 
  Mr, 
  T. 
  H. 
  Wolley- 
  

   Dod 
  at 
  Salonika 
  ; 
  and 
  from 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  S. 
  Robertson 
  at 
  Netley. 
  

  

  j\Ir. 
  Sich 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  " 
  Lampronia 
  qHadnpnnctella 
  and 
  its 
  

   aberrations 
  " 
  (See 
  " 
  Ent. 
  Record," 
  vol. 
  xxx., 
  p. 
  146), 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  

   furnished 
  the 
  following 
  summary 
  :— 
  

  

  " 
  In 
  June 
  a 
  small 
  dusky 
  Tineid 
  moth, 
  Lawpronia 
  qnadripuncteUa, 
  

   may 
  be 
  seen 
  flying 
  over 
  wild 
  rose, 
  especially 
  where 
  this 
  plant 
  grows 
  

   thickly 
  in 
  a 
  hedgerow. 
  The 
  forewings 
  are 
  dark 
  greyish-brown, 
  

   with 
  from 
  one 
  to 
  five 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  pale 
  spots. 
  This 
  varia- 
  

   tion 
  in 
  the 
  spotting 
  has 
  prevented 
  some 
  authors 
  from 
  identifying 
  

   the 
  insect 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  given 
  by 
  Fabricius. 
  (" 
  Species 
  

   Insect.," 
  ii,, 
  p. 
  298, 
  52, 
  1781.) 
  For 
  convenience 
  these 
  spots 
  may 
  

   be 
  numbered. 
  Spot 
  1 
  is 
  vertical 
  and 
  situated 
  on 
  the 
  dorsum 
  before 
  

   the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  ; 
  more 
  often 
  present 
  in 
  the 
  female. 
  Spot 
  2, 
  

   usually 
  sub-quadrate, 
  rises 
  from 
  the 
  dorsum 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle. 
  

   This 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  conspicuous 
  spot, 
  and 
  present 
  in 
  all 
  specimens 
  I 
  

   have 
  seen. 
  Spot 
  3, 
  often 
  round, 
  just 
  above 
  spot 
  2, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  

   connected 
  with 
  it. 
  Spot 
  4, 
  small 
  and 
  triangular, 
  situated 
  on 
  the 
  

   costa 
  near 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  wing. 
  Spot 
  5, 
  the 
  smallest, 
  lies 
  between 
  

   spot 
  3 
  and 
  the 
  costa 
  ; 
  usually 
  absent. 
  Fabricius 
  described 
  the 
  

   form 
  in 
  which 
  spots 
  2 
  and 
  3 
  only 
  were 
  present, 
  or 
  at 
  any 
  rate 
  these 
  

   spots 
  only 
  were 
  conspicuous, 
  and 
  this 
  form 
  is 
  therefore 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  

   the 
  species. 
  Long 
  after, 
  in 
  1844, 
  Duponchel 
  finds 
  the 
  moth 
  and 
  

   describes 
  it 
  as 
  Incnrvaria 
  bipunctella. 
  (" 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  Lep. 
  Suppl.," 
  

   iv.) 
  His 
  insect 
  shows 
  only 
  spots 
  1 
  and 
  2. 
  In 
  1852 
  Zeller 
  

   captured 
  the 
  species 
  at 
  Glogau, 
  but 
  curiously 
  his 
  specimens, 
  though 
  

   having 
  only 
  two 
  spots, 
  were 
  different 
  from 
  those 
  already 
  described. 
  

   They 
  had 
  only 
  spots 
  2 
  and 
  4 
  present. 
  Not 
  being 
  able 
  to 
  identify 
  

   his 
  moths 
  with 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  Fabricius 
  and 
  Duponchel, 
  which 
  

  

  