149 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Albert H. Jones, of Eltham, were elected Fellows. Mr. H. 

 Goss exhibited a large number of insects lately received from 

 Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., of Melbourne, 

 which had been collected by Mr. Sayer on Mount Obree and the 

 adjoining ranges in New Guinea, during Mr. Cuthbertson's 

 recent expedition there under the direction of the Koj^al Geo- 

 graphical Society of Australia. The collection comprised about 

 240 species of Coleoptera, 150 species of Lepidoptera, 48 species 

 of Hemiptera, and a few species of Diptera, Hymenoptera, and 

 Orthoptera. The Lepidoptera included twenty species of butter- 

 flies belonging to the genera Calliplce.a, Chanapa, Hamadryas, 

 Melanitis, Mycalesis, Hypocysta, Tenaris, Hypolimnas, Cyrestis, 

 Neptis, Acrcsa, Danis, Pithecops, Appias, Ornithoptera, and 

 Eiirycus. Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., exhibited, and made 

 remarks on, about sixty specimens — 'Uo two of which were alike — 

 of a species of butterfly belonging to the genus Hypolimnas, all 

 of which had been caught by Mr. Woodford near Suva, Viti 

 Levu, Fiji, on one patch of Zinnias. Mr. H. T. Stainton, 

 F.R.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. C. Bignell, cases of 

 Thyridopteryx ephemercsformis, Haworth, collected near Charles- 

 ton, U.S.A. Mr. Stainton said he hoped Mr. Bignell would not 

 introduce this pest into England. Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, 

 and read notes on, about twenty species of South African 

 dragonflies lately received from Mr. Roland Triinen, F.R.S., of 

 Cape Town. Mr. A. Sich exhibited a bred specimen of a variety of 

 Plusia gamma. Mr. Goss read a letter from Mr. Bignell, 

 correcting a statement made by Mr. Poulton at the March 

 meeting of the Society to the efl'ect that the variety valesina of 

 the female of Argynnis paphia did not occur in Devonshire. 

 Mr. Bignell said that the var. valesina was included in Mr. 

 Reading's ' Catalogue of Devonshire Lepidoptera,' and that he 

 had himself taken specimens of this variety in Bickleigh 

 Vale, Devon. Mr. Waterhouse read a paper entitled "Additional 

 Observations on the Tea-bugs (Helopeltis) of Java," and exhibited 

 a number of specimens of these insects. He said that the 

 species infesting the Cinchona in Java was supposed to have 

 been introduced from Ceylon in tea, but that he had discovered 

 that the species on the Tea and on Cinchona in Java were 

 distinct, and that both species were distinct from Helopeltis 

 Antonii of Ceylon. Herr Jacoby read a paper entitled " New, 



