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philous Lycsenid larvae, and gave a list of records up to date, with remarks on the 

 methods pursued by the ants in obtaining the juices from them. lie also gave an 

 account of the British Myrmecophilous Coleoptera with special mention of the 

 work he and Mr. A. TT. Martineau had carried out in the Midlands during the past 

 year. Mr. A. TT. Martineau exhibited specimens of Formicoxenus nitidulus, Nyl., 

 from the nests of Formica mfa, L , from Knowle (Warwickshire). Mr. Herbert 

 Stone, a piece of " marble ebony " sapwood showing ebony around the galleries of 

 insects, also la nee wood similarly ebonizod. Mr. Hubert Langley, specimens of 

 Asthenia pygmseana, III), and Anybia epilohiella, Roem., from Princethorpe, both 

 species being additions to the Warwickshire List. Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis read 

 a short paper on the present knowledge of the genus Dinarda, Grav., embodying 

 the work of Donisthorpe and Wasmann and his own observations of the species 

 collected from (he nests of Formica rufa, L., and F. sanquinea, Latr., and from 

 a number of specimens received from friends — Alfred H. Martineau, Hon Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, June 25th, 1908. — Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited a large species of Mayfly (Ephemera) in the penultimate 

 stage. Mr. Goulton, living larvae of Tethea subtusa taken in Surrey. Mr. Rayward, 

 batches of ova of Macrothylacia riibi found on heather tops at night, when they 

 were very conspicuous. Mr. Edwards reported the capture at Rlackheath of a 6* 

 and 9 Amphidaxys betularia, var. doubledayaria, in cop. Various Members gave 

 notes on this season's captures and observations. 



Thursday, July 9th, 1908.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a rayed variety of Abraxas grossulariata. Mr. West 

 (Greenwich), a short series of the local Coleopteron, Dytiscus circumcinctus, from 

 Great Yarmouth, and specimens of the rare Bidessus unistriatus from the same 

 place. Mr. R. Adkin,read a short account of the various meetings held during 

 the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies at Hastings. 

 Messrs. Sich and Step made a few remarks on the excursions made during the 

 Congress. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



HELP-NOTES TOWARDS THE DETERMINATION OP BRITISH 



TXNTHREDINIDM, &c. (22). 

 sELAXDRIADES (continued) SELANDRIA to STROMBOCEROS. 



BY THE KEV. F. D. MORICE, M.A., F.E.S. 



Since the last instalment of these Help-Notes went to press, 

 I have sustained an altogether irreparable loss by the death on 

 March 18th of Pastor Konow. The promise of his assistance— 

 a promise ever since amply fulfilled — was my chief encouragement 

 to undertake this series of papers, and whatever in them hitherto has 

 been of real value is (1 may say without exaggeration) entirely due to 



