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that it was not possible to enforce a rule ignoring such descriptions. A discussion 

 also ensued as to whether or not the cover of a periodical or work was part of the 

 publication. On this point difference of opinion was manifested, but the general 1 

 idea was in the affirmative. 



November 3rd, 1880. Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., &c, President, in ; 

 the Chair. 



Mr. E. Meyrick, of Eamsbury, Wilts, and Capt. Thos. Broun, of Auckland, ! 

 New Zealand, were elected Ordinary Members, and Dr. E. Brandt, of St. Petersburg, I 

 was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Olliffe, a pair of dwarfed j 

 examples of Epione vespertaria taken at Arundel. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited the singular Eucalyptus galls described and figured | 

 in the present number of this Magazine. He stated, also, that in a letter received ; 

 from Mr. D. G. Rutherford, from Camaroons, W. Africa, the writer mentioned that , 

 he had taken Papilio Merope and P. Cenea in copula, and had obtained eggs from 

 which larvae were hatched. Mr. Roland Trimen thought an error had occurred as to 

 the name Cenea, and that the ? was more probably Hippocoon or one of the other ! 

 W. African polymorphic forms of the $ of Merope. The statement was interesting 

 as confirming the relationship of one of the forms. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited saw-fly galls on a sallow, apparently not of the 

 usual form ; and a drawing of a very singular dipterous larva found on a stem of 

 Pelargonium, and no doubt pertaining to the Syrphidce. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, on behalf of the Rev. J. K. Brown, of Maidstone, | 

 a remarkable variety of JSpunda lutulenta; and on behalf of Mr. Rolfe a specimen] 

 of Apatura Ilia which the latter affirmed he had caught in Pinner Woods last July, j 

 It was remarked that this example of A. Ilia was apparently old and had evidently 

 been twice pinned. 



Sir John Lubbock exhibited larvae from the Troad, which Mr. Calvert had l 

 forwarded through Sir J. D. Hooker ; they had lately been found in considerable • 

 numbers feeding on the eggs of Locusts, and were probably those of some species of; 

 Cantharidee ; very many locust eggs had been destroyed by them, and it was 

 suggested they might perhaps be imported into Cyprus. 



Mr. Roland Trimen exhibited the singular apterous Hymenopterous insect; 

 (already noticed at the Meeting of the 7th July) from near Cape Town, which he, 

 strongly believed was the $? of Dorylus helvolus ; it had been found in a nest of 

 small red ant apparently of the genus Anomma, and the workers of this were J 

 attached to a winged female referable to Grerstacker's genus Dichthodia, which that , 

 author regarded as probably the $ of Dorylus. He also exhibited cases formed by a 

 South African Lepidopterous larva ; they were formed of sand, somewhat flattened, 

 and along each side were attached larger rough fragments of stone in a single row, ' 

 thus giving the case much the aspect of a Myriopod ; the larva was regarded as , 

 venomous by the Boers. 



Sir S. S. Saunders read a paper on the habits and affinities of the Hymenopterous 

 genus Scleroderma. 



Mr. E. Saunders read a Synopsis of British Heterogyna and Fossorial 

 Hymenoptera. 



Professor Westwood read descriptions of new species of exotic Diptera. 



