94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., and the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Vice-Presidents for the Session 1888 to 1889. Mr. 

 Henry F. Dale, F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., of Miserden, Gloucestershire, 

 and 2, Savile Row, W., was elected a Fellow ; and the Rev. W. J. 

 H. Newman, M.A., Mr. H. W. Barker, and Mr. J. H. Leech, B.A., 

 were admitted into the Society. Mr. F. Pascoe exhibited two speci- 

 mens of a species of the Hemipterous genus Ghilia^iella, one of 

 which he found crawling over a low bush at Para with the young 

 larva securely riding on its back. He said it was the only occasion 

 he ever saw the species with the larva, which was new to Mr. Bates. 

 Dr. Sharp exhibited some insects forwarded to him by Mr. Kidston, 

 of Stirling, collected by Mr. Alexander Carson on Kavalla, an 

 island in Lake Tanganyika : they were sent in spirit, and unfor- 

 tunately were much damaged in transit. The Coleoptera were 

 nearly all well-known species, exemplifying the fact that many of 

 the commoner insects of tropical Africa have wide distribution 

 there, some of these species being common in Natal and Senegal. . 

 The most remarkable of the insects received from Mr. Carson was 

 a large lepidopterous caterpillar, which Dr. Sharp had given to 

 Mr. Poulton ; it was covered with very thick sharp spines, all 

 pointed except the terminal one, which was furcate. Mr. Cham- 

 pion exhibited specimens of Casnonia olivieri, Buq., (Edichirus 

 unicolor, Aube, Paussus favierl, Fairm., Colydium elongatum, 

 Fab., Endophloeus spinulosus, Latr., Hetcsrius arachnoides, Fairm., 

 Pseudotrechus miitilatus, Rosenh., Singilis hicolor, Ramb., Phyllo- 

 morpa laciniata, Will., all recently collected by Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 R.N., of H.M. ship ' Grappler,' at Gibraltar, Tetuan, and 

 Tangier. Mr. R. South exhibited a remarkable variety of Poly- 

 ommatus phloeas, caught by him in North Devon in 1881. Mr. 

 R. W. Lloyd exhibited a living specimen of a species of Ocnera 

 taken in London amongst merchandise imported from Ispahan. 

 Mons. A. Wailly exhibited, and read notes on, a number of 

 cocoons of AnthercBci assamemis, A. roylei, Actias selene, Attacus 

 ricini, &c., lately received from Assam ; also a number of nests of 

 cocoons of Bomhy.v rhadama, — the silk of which is used by the 

 Hovas m the manufacture of their stuffs called " Lambas,"— from 

 the island of St. Mary, Madagascar. Captain H. J. Elwes read 

 a paper on " the Butterflies of Sikkim," the result of many j'ears 

 of collecting in that wonderfully rich district of the Himalayas. 

 He said he had been enabled to complete his observations 



