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the receipt of the larvae. In the same locality where these larvae were taten the 

 pupae wore found in some numbers in June at the roots of the clover. Miss Ormerod 

 remarked that the larvae were particularly sensitive to damp. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited two ichneumons parasitic on spiders, and read a note 

 fi'om the Rev. T. A. Marshall respecting the first, pointing out that the spider on 

 which the larva was parasitic was a species of a bright green colour, and that the 

 larva that fed upon it gradually turned green itself. Mr. Fitch thought the second 

 species was probably a Poli/sjjliincta, and he read a communication from Mr. Bignell 

 respecting its larva, and showed a figure of it. He also remarked that De Greer had 

 noticed a larva that was parasitic on a spider. He also exhibited a new species of 

 ProctrolrupidcB from the Rev. T. A. Marshall, taken in Rothen Wood in company 

 with Anommatus 12-striatus, four to six feet under ground. 



Miss Ormerod showed specimens of very young pine trees, whose stems had 

 been stripped of their lower leaves by chafer-grubs, and remarked that she had often 

 heard that the pines were damaged in tliis way in Canada, but that this was the first 

 case in England that had come under her notice. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited a species of EphemeridcB from Ceylon, on behalf . 

 of Mr. G. Lewis, who said it was luminous. The Rev. A. E. Eaton stated that it 

 was a species of Teloganodes (probably T. tristis, Hag.) ; and that there was a re- 

 mark in the Transactions, by Dr. Hagen, concerning a British species of Coenis, 

 which was said to be faintly luminous. According to Mr. Lewis, the whole abdomen 

 in his insect appeared to be luminous. 



Mr. Miskin communicated a paper on the habits of Ogyris Genoveva, Hewits. 



Lord Walsingham sent a paper on North American ColeojjhorcB. 



Mr. Scott communicated a paper on certain genera and species of FsylUdce in 

 the British Museum. 



August 2nd, 1882 : E. D. Godman, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Hildebrand Ramsden, of 26, Upper Bedford Place, W.C., was elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Mr. F. Enock exhibited male aiid female specimens of Macropis labiata, which 

 he had captured at Woking. 



Mr. Billups exhibited specimens of Paragus tibialis, Fallen, which he had found 

 in June last in the burrows of Ilalictus nitidiusculus , and also a specimen of Disco- 

 viyza incurva, Fallen, captured at Box Hill ; this insect was unrecorded as British. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod read some Observations on the development of Sitones 

 lineatus. 



Mr. Distant exhibited a number of specimens of Xylehorus Saxeseni, Ratz., a 

 species which had occasioned the destruction of beer sent out to Rangoon, presumably 

 by boring through the casks. 



Mr. OllifE exhibited specimens of Anommatus 12-striatus, Miill., captured at 

 Tunbridge by Mr. A. C. Horner. 



Mr. G". Lewis contributed a paper entitled — On a visit to Ceylon, and the rela- 

 tion of Ceylonese beetles to the vegetation there. 



Mr. H. Pryer communicated a short memoir — On certain temperature-forms of 

 Japanese butterflies. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse read — Descriptions of new Coleoptera from Madagascar 

 belonging to the MeloIonthidcB. 



