336 [December, l(ti5. 



imagines — all $ $ — of the sawfly Pteronus (Lophyrxcs) sertifer (= " Tenthredo 

 pectinata mfa" of Retzius) with cocoons from which they emerged. 



Prof. Poiilton said that since the June Meeting of the Society, he had i-e- 

 ceived several interesting- letters and boxes of specimens from Dr. Carpenter, 

 some of wliich he road and exhibited. Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a colonj'^ of 

 Myrmerina graminicola Latr., which he had kept in captivity for over five years; 

 his object in showing this colony was to call attention to the number of winged 

 females which had been reared in the nest this summer. 



The following pajjers were read : — " Observations completing an outline of 

 the Life History of Lycaena avion L.," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; 

 "Further Observations on the last stages of Lycaeyta arion," by P. W. Frohawk, 

 M.B.O.IT., F.E.S. ; " A Contribiition to the Life History of Agriades esclieri Hb.," 

 by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S.; "On the early stages of Latiorina 

 (Lycaena) pyrenaica Boisd.," by the same; "Notes on the early stages of Scolit- 

 antides orion Pall." by the same ; New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands," 

 by J. J. Joicey, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., and G. Talbot, F.E.S. ; " Some new Par- 

 nassii," by A. Avinoff, F.E.S.; "A new Micropterygid from Australia," by 

 A. Jefferis Tiirner, M.D., F.E.S.; "Record of some new species of the genus 

 Teracolus occurring in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, W. Africa," 

 by G. C. Dudgeon, F.E.S. ; " Glossina morsitans Westw., some notes on the 

 parasitisation of its pupae," by Hereward C. Dolhnan, F.E.S. — Geo. Wheelek, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



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