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darkish ; the intestinal canal showing through the skin of the sixth and seventh 

 segments as a large, dark, irregular blotch. On the second segment the dorsal line 

 shows as a slender faint line ; sub-dorsal line indicated by a row of spots, two on the 

 side of each segment, the anterior one being the higher ; a dark spot on the ventral 

 pro-legs, with a smaller one above it ; anal pro-legs with one dark spot ; anal plate 

 ovate, edged with brownish, and with two dark spots on the upper edge ; the pre- 

 ceding (12th) segment has a large, long, dark spot or dash placed across the dorsal 

 line, with a small spot at each end ; skin smooth, with very minute hairs from the 

 spots. When approaching full-growth, the larva is often nearly as large in girth as 

 the catkin it inhabits, and, of course, eats away the entire inside of the calkin, the 

 outer surface of the catkin being carefully webbed inside and so held together. 

 When touched, the larva lias the habit of exuding a dark fluid. The first that 

 indulged in this freak made me believe I had crushed its head, but I could not detect 

 any injury, and an imago was afterwards produced from it, and subsequently I have 

 noticed other larvae do the same. Pupation takes place sometimes in the catkin, or, 

 rather, in the cylindrical web coated with the outer skin of the catkin, at other times 

 it is between, or under, dead leaves in a white silken web. The pupa is a delicate 

 light brown, the dark intestinal blotch already mentioned showing until the pupa 

 case begins to darken previous to the emergence of the insect. Eye-cases rather 

 projecting, and slightly darker. Two rows of minute points on the back of each 

 segment. — .4. Balding, Wisbech: June Ith, 1886. 



Ochsenhehneria vacuJella in abundance at Leiviskam. — On July 12th I was for- 

 tunate enough to capture one hundred and fifty specimens of the little known 

 Ochsenheimeria vaculella under the bark of one willow here : on the 10th I took 

 about fifty. I imagined it was partial to willow, but found it also under the bark of 

 alder and oak. — Alfred Beaumont, 3i', Lady well Park, Lewisham: July 14^A, 1886. 



Potiera punctatissima, Rog., at Bromley, Kent. — Whilst sweeping for Coleoptera 

 in a wood near here, on the evening of the 1st July, I captured a winged female of 

 a Ponera, which I thought, of course, was contracta, but never having taken the 

 species before, I was very glad to meet with it ; I was, therefore, considerably sur- 

 prised to find on examination that my insect was punctatissima, instead of contracta, 

 especially as 1 had always regarded the former species as a very doubtful native, it 

 generally having occurred in houses, &c. Near the wood are situated several 

 recently erected houses, and it may possibly have escaped from one of these ; but I 

 thought its capture in such a locality was at any rate worth recording. I may add 

 that I have been twice to the locality since, but have been unable to secure other 

 specimens.— Edwaed Saundees, St. Ann's, Mason's Hill, Bromley, Kent : July 

 12th, 1886. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal Histoet Society, 

 June nth, 1886 : R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. A. T. Storey and A. Eland Shaw were elected Members. 



Mr. Jager exhibited Erastria venustula, Hb., from Horsham. Mr. E. Cook, 

 Heliaca tenebrata, Scop., and Emmelesia albulata, Schiff. Mr. Sheldon, forms of 



