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from Sierra Leone. Mr. White exhibited a female specimen of 

 Composia olymjna, Butl., from Florida. He also exhibited, for Mr. 

 Ralfe, a curious structure formed by white ants at Akyab, Burmah. 

 Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a series of diagrams of the wings of 

 insects, and read " Notes of observations on the homologies of 

 the veins" — a subject to which he had given especial attention 

 for some time past. Mr. Champion, Mr. Verrall, Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 Dr. Sharp, Mr, Poulton, and others, took part in the discussion 

 which ensued. Mr. G. T. Baker contributed " Descriptions of new 

 species of Lepidoptera from Algiers." Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, 

 E.N., communicated a paper entitled " Life-histories of Rhopalo- 

 cera from the Australian Region." The paper was accompanied 

 by elaborate coloured drawings of the perfect insects, their lai'vse 

 and pupse. Mr. Frederic Merrifield read a " Report of Progress 

 in Pedigree Moth-breeding, with Observations on incidental 

 points." He also exhibited a large number of specimens of 

 Selenia bilunaria {illunaria), &c., showing the results of the experi- 

 ments he had been making. Mr. Francis Galton alluded to the 

 close attention Mr. Merrifield had given to the subject, and com- 

 plimented him on the neatness, ingenuity, and skill with which 

 his experiments had been conducted, and on the results he had 

 obtained therefrom. Prof. Meldola, Mr. Poulton, and others 

 continued the discussion. — H. Goss, Hoji. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 SociKTY.— November 2Uh, 1887. R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. Messrs. J. Reindorp and W. H. Whiffen were 

 elected members. Mr. Adye exhibited Sphinx convolvuli, Catocala 

 pi'omissa, C. sponsa, Xylina ornithopus, X. semibrunnea, and 

 X. socia, from the New Forest. Mr. Mera, species taken on 

 Wanstead Flats. Mr. C. A. Briggs, a fine variety of Arctia caia. 

 Mr. Billups, a cocoon of a South American moth, the pupa being 

 about tlie size of CJioerocaiiipa porcellus, from which 139 perfect 

 specimens, 19 immature specimens, and 9 larvae of a parasite of 

 the genus Smicra had emerged. Mr. Billups also exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. S. Moseley, a case illustrating the life-history 

 of the Hessian Fly {Cecidomyia destructor), with examples of 

 infected straw ; and on behalf of Mr. Bignell, a case of British 

 galls, with gall-flies, and contributed notes. Mr. Fenn, on behalf 

 of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, caddis cases, Ilelicopsyclie, sp. ? 

 a genus of Trichoptera, from Divide Creek, Garfield Co., 



