■J_^^ [November, 1880. 



in 1833 by the Rev. L. Guilding as Margarodes formicanus, which was usually 

 referred to the Coccidce as allied to Porphyropkora. They were of various shades 

 from yellowish pearly to golden and copper colour, and were strung together by the 

 natives like beads, and used by them as necklaces and other personal ornaments, as, 

 according to Mr. Q-uilding, was the case with the West Indian species. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, on behalf of Mr. John Thorpe, of Middleton, a 

 long series of buff and melanic varieties of Ampliidasis bettdaria, and read notes on 

 them communicated by Mr. Thorpe ; also, on behalf of Mr. Nunney, who was present 

 as a visitor, a dark variety of Argynnis Aglaia from Caithness, a^^d a tawny-coloured 

 variety of Vanessa urficcB from Bournemouth. Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited a fine 

 series of Saturnice and other Bomhyces, mostly bred by him, from South Africa ; he 

 also exhibited ova of Saturnia tyrrhea, pupee of this and other South African species, 

 and a cocoon of Bomlyx Ochadama from Madagascar. He stated that several of the 

 large south African Saturnidce formed no cocoons, the larvae entering the earth to 

 undergo the change to the pupal state. Mr. Trimen said he was able to confirm the 

 statement. 



Mr. Poulton gave an account of the experiments recently made by him with the 

 larvse of several species of the genus Vanessa, for the purpose of ascertaining the 

 relations of pupal colour to that of the surface on which the larval skin is thrown 

 off, which had formed the subject of a paper lately read by him before the British 

 Association, and exhibited the frame constructed by him for the purpose of these 

 experiments. The President and Messrs. Trimen, Waterhouse, White, Hall and 

 others took part in the discussion which ensued. 



Mr. Slater exhibited a specimen of Prionus coriarius from Devonshire, and 

 a specimen of Calandra palmarum found alive at Pembroke Dock. Mr. Enock 

 exhibited My mar pulcheUus, and a specimen of Atypus piceiis recently taken on 

 Hampstead Heath. Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of Oelechia hippophaeUa, Sch., 

 bred from larvae collected at Deal. Mr. Billups exhibited Echthrus lancifer, Grr., a 

 species of IchneunomidcB new to Britain, taken at Walmer on the 15th August last, 

 He remarked that Brischke had bred members of this genus from Sesia spheciformis, 

 S. formicceformis, and Leucania ohsoJeta ; but in this country the genus was little 

 known, only one species (Echthrus reluctatorj being mentioned in Marshall's list of 

 British Ichneumon idcB. Mr. E. A. Butler exhibited a male and female of Macrocoleus 

 tanaceti from Bramley, near Gruildford ; living specimens of Chilacis typhce, received 

 from the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, of Guestling, Hastings ; and a pair of Harpalus 

 discoideus, obtained in August last on a heath near Chilworth, Surrey. Mr. A. J. 

 Rose exhibited a mountain form of Lyccena virgaurea, recently collected by him in 

 Norway. Mr. Champion exhibited Teratocoris antennatus and Drymus pilicornis, 

 taken near Sheerness. Mr. W. White exhibited specimens of Proctotrypes aier, 

 Nees ; also a specimen of Chelonia Caja with abnormal antennae, and read notes on 

 the subject. 



Mr. Elisha read a paper " On the life-history of Geometra smaragdaria." 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse communicated a paper " On the Tea-bugs of India and 

 Java." 



During the meeting a telegram was received from Mr. Freeman, of Plymouth, 

 announcing the recent capture, in Cornwall, of Anosia Plexippus. — H. Goss, Secretary. 



