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cancer, and came home for surgical treatment, but unavailingly. A set of thorough 

 workers in Entomology (mostly German and Dutch, although the " foreign " popula- 

 tion consists largely of Italians) established themselves in the Argentine Republic ; 

 one of the most prominent was Weyenbergh. We trust the science is now too-well 

 established there to sustain more than a temporary shock by the decease of one of 

 its best expounders. 



ENTOMOLoaicAL SOCIETY OF LoNDON, Sept. 2nd, 1885 : R. McLachlan, Esq., 

 F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President made apologetic remarks, regretting that his absence from 

 England at the last Meeting precluded him from personally congratulating his col- 

 leagues on the acquisition of a Royal Charter of Incorporation. He also stated, 

 that on the 18th July he had the pleasure of assisting at the celebration of the 40th 

 anniversary of the foundation of the Entomological Society of the Netherlands, 

 held at Amsterdam. He desired to publicly thank that Society for the kindness and 

 hospitality he had received on the occasion, and to intimate that their Dutch 

 brethren wished to enter into still further cordial relations with British Entomo- 

 logists. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited living examples of Euhrychins velatus from 

 Eastbourne, which he had found swimming freely amongst Myriophyllum. Also 

 the larva of Gyrinus marimis ; and a species of Aleurodes found in great numbers 

 on fuchsia, the leaves of which they spotted. 



Mr. Billups exhibited Telenomus pJialcenarum, Nees, bred from the eggs of 

 Pygcera hucephala, and a large number of Aculeate Hymenoptera from Chobham. 



The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited a specimen of Beilephila livornica, captured 

 near Tenby two years ago. 



Mr. Ralfe exhibited 18 examples of Sesia asiliformis, bred from eggs laid by 

 a ? taken in a nursery at Coombe Wood; also Cucullia scropMilarice, which had 

 been four years in the pupa state, and an undetermined species of Geometridce bred 

 from eggs laid by a ? captured near Weymouth in August, 1883. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited an undetermined species of Lepisma, which was common 

 on account books kept in an iron safe in an office in London. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Batrachotettix hufo, a singular toad- 

 like grasshopper taken in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, by Mr. Farini ; they ap- 

 peared to vary in colour in accordance with that of the sandy regions in which they 

 lived. Also Palpares immensus, McLach., a large species of Ant Lion, from the same 

 locality. Also cases of a species of Psychidce (from the same district), forming silken 

 tubes covered with sand and small pebbles. Also two immense spiders (fi'om the 

 same disti-ict), apparently a Galeodes, remarkable for curious coriaceous appendages 

 on the hind legs, which might act as suckers. He further exhibited, from the same 

 source, a living example of a large species of CurculionidcB, apparently a Brachycerus. 



The President exhibited a large collection of Neuropterous insects of all Families, 

 captured in July and August this year in the Schwarzwald, Baden. Their exact de- 

 termination remained, in many cases, for future investigation. Although there were 

 probably no new species amongst them, thei'e were certainly some important points 

 in respect to local distribution. 



