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scenes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he made a collecting tour 

 in 1912. 



April Mth.—Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— 

 The evening was devoted to a special exhibition of specimens of 

 orders other than Lepidoptera, and was a most successful meeting. — 

 Mr. E. Adkin exhibited an original copy of ' A Naturalist's Calendar ' 

 (1795), being extracts from Gilbert White's diaries, and a facsimile 

 reprint of Gilbert White's ' Flora Selborniensis ' by the Selborne 

 Society in 1911. Also he exhibited a spider's web and spider 

 mounted between glass by the late Mr. H. Mc Arthur. — Mr, W. West 

 (Greenwich) placed on the tables sixteen drawers of the Society's 

 reference collections (British), viz. two of Orthoptera, presented by 

 Dr. Malcolm Burr, &c., two of Neuroptera, presented by Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas, Mr. W. J. Ashdown, &c., one of Hymenoptera, and eleven of 

 Coleoptera.— Mr. West also exhibited twelve drawers of his own 

 collection of British Heteroptera, Homoptera, and Psyllina. — Mr. 

 E. A. Newbery, a number of new and rare species of British Coleo- 

 ptera, including Apion selousi, Trachyphlcsus digitalis, Lathrohium 

 ripicola, Homalota aquatilis,Myrmeco2)ora brevipes, Thinobiiis pallidus, 

 Cartodere argus, Dermestes peruvianus, Bledius denticollis, B. filipies, 

 B. sacerdendus, Ceuthorhijnchus parvulus, Laccobius purpurascens, 

 Orthochcstes insignis, &c. — Mr. Priske, varied forms of the coleopteron 

 Geotrupes mutator, from Hanwell. — Mr. Ashdown, examples of the 

 species of Hemiptera and Hymenoptera taken in Switzerland, in- 

 cluding Cicadetta montana, ^^lia acuviinata, Harpactor iracundus, 

 M'utilla europaa, &c. — Mr. Sheldon, two species of " firefly " met 

 with on the Continent. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, Homoptera from 

 S. America resembling Lepidoptera in form and marking, including 

 the beautiful Pmciloptera plialcenoides ; Heteroptera of bizarre form 

 and marking from Colombia, &c., including Apiomenis hirtipes with 

 two curious processes (" Hags ") at the anal extremity of the abdo- 

 men ; two large-bodied Orthoptera from the Transvaal used as food 

 by the natives ; and a box of large and conspicuous insects from the 

 up-country of Western Australia — Aculeata, Diptera, Ichneumonidte, 

 Odonata, &c.— Mr. K. G. Blair, living scorpions, earwigs, and glow- 

 worms from Monaco, and gave his experiences in the States of the 

 "flashing " of the fireflies, and an account of the experiments there 

 carried out with artificial "flashing." — Mr. Buckstone, insects of 

 various orders from New South Wales. — Mr. Main, two species of 

 cockroach and a large glowworm, &c. — Mr. Ashby, Hemiptera and 

 Coleoptera from Oyo, Southern Nigeria, and his collection of Donacia, 

 Chrysomela, and Gryptocephalus (Coleoptera). — Mr. Gibbs, a case 

 containing specimens of Sirex noctilio and S. gigas, the sawflies 

 whose larvie cause much damage to fir timber, and examples of 

 the damage caused. He also showed a case of the various groups of 

 the suborder Hemiptera, and gave notes on the two exhibits. — Mr. 

 H. Moore, two drawers of Orthoptera, one mainly European, the 

 other large exotic leaf crickets; a box of Xylocopidce, violet carpenter- 

 bees from all over the world ; a case of lantern-flies, Fulgoridee ; 

 foreign insects introduced to Deptford by shipping, such as Blabcra 

 cubcnsis, Acheta bimaculata, Acridium agyptium, kc. ; and a selection 

 of Orthoptera and Homoptera to illustrate a note on " Singing 



