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Entomological Society of London : 1th May, 1884.-J. W. Dunning, Esq., 

 M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Before the business of the meeting commenced, the President made a few 

 touching and appropriate remarks concerning the loss the Society, and Entomology 

 in general, had sustained in the sudden death since the last meeting of Sir Sidney 

 S. Saunders, one of the Vice-Presidents. 



Messrs. William White, of Morden House, Highbury Hill, and W. H. Patton, 

 of Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A., were elected Members. 



Mr. Kirby exhibited a small dark example of Samia Cecropia bred by Mons. 



Wailly. 



Mr C. O. Waterhouse exhibited two species of Dragon-flies captured by the 

 Rev. F. A. Walker in the Island of Rhoda (? Rhodes) ; these were Crocothemis 

 erythrcBa, Brulle, and Trithemis ruhrinervis, Selys. He also exhibited from his 

 garden an ApUs on an apple leaf infested by a parasitic AipUdius, which latter, 

 instead of undergoing its transformations within the body of the Aphis, as is usually 

 the case, came out and formed a silken cocoon beneath the body. 



Mr. S. Stevens sent for exhibition specimens of Andrenafulva, which this year 

 was 80 abundant in his garden as to become a nuisance by burrowing in his lawn. 

 Messrs. McLachlan and C. O. Waterhouse said that precisely analogous conditions 

 had recently come under their notice. 



Mr. Olliff exhibited a new species of Helota collected by Dr. Welwitsch in 

 Angola, which he proposed to term H. africana ; it was of great interest, the genus 

 being otherwise eastern. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited Isosoma orchidearum, Westwood, bred from knots in 

 the stems of Cattleya Triance in an orchid-house at Southport. He alluded to the 

 vexed question whether Isosoma and other EurytomidcB are parasitic or not. Al- 

 though he could find no other larva in the stems that could be the " host " of the 

 insect, he still believed in its parasitic nature, and his informant distinctly alluded 

 to two kinds of larvse as being in the stems. 



Mr. Billups exhibited twelve species of Hemiptera collected by him at Headley 

 Lane on January 14th this year, viz., Acalypta parvula, D. & S., Cymus claviculus, 

 Fall., a glandicolor, Hahn, Anthocoris sarothamni, D. & S., Brymus sylvaticus, ¥., 

 Metacanthus punctipes, Germ., Monanthia costata, F., M. cardui, L., Tropistethus 

 holosericeus, Hahn, Piezostethus cursitans, Fall., Stygnocoris sabulosus, Schill., Pe- 

 ritrechus puncticeps, Thoms. Of these M. costata and T. holosericeus were generallyy 

 considered rare species in England. 



Mr. McLachlan called attention to the 1st vol. of Mr. A. D. Michael's magni 

 ficent work on the OrihatidcB, a Family of Acari, just issued by the Ray Society, 

 and said that such a work was not only a credit to the Ray Society, but did honour 

 to British Naturalists in general, and to the author in particular. The President 

 and others coincided in this opinion, alluding to the extreme minuteness of the ^ 

 creatures and the great skill exhibited by Mr. Michael in the dissections and draw■^ 

 ings. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse said that a complete set of the types had been presented! 

 to the British Museum. 



Mr. A. R. G-rote sent a paper (communicated by Mr. Butler) on the Lepidopji 

 terous genus Hemileuca. Mr. Distant was of opinion that the common N. AmericaBu 

 species might be easily acclimatized in England. 



Mr. Butler communicated a paper on the Lepidopterous genus Cocyiia. 





