164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — May 2nd, 1888. — 

 Dr. D. Sharp, F.L.S., President in the chair. Major J. W. Yer- 

 bury, K.A., of the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, S.W. ; and 

 Mr. P. W. Mackinnon, of Masuri, Western Himalayas, India, 

 were elected Fellows ; and Mr. H. F. Dale, Dr. J. W. Ellis, and 

 Mr. A. J. Croker were admitted into the Society. Dr. P. B. 

 Mason exhibited an hermaphrodite specimen of Saturnia carpini 

 from Lincoln, and another specimen of the same species with five 

 wings, bred at Tenby. Herr Jacoby exhibited female specimens of 

 Chrysomela japana, collected by Mr, J. H. Leech in Japan, and 

 called attention to a sexual structure in the middle of the abdo- 

 minal segment. Mr. Adkin exhibited a variety of Euholia hipunc- 

 taria, taken at Box Hill, in July, 1880. Mr, W. F. Kirby 

 exhibited, for Dr. Livett, a curious discoloured female specimen 

 of Ornitliopte7xi minos, Cramer. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. 

 W. Denison-Roebuck, a number of specimens of an exotic species 

 of Bee obtained by the Rev. W. Fowler, of Liversedge, from split 

 logwood. The cells or pouches were very irregular and rough 

 and altogether unlike those in the " comb " of any known 

 British species of Bee. Dr. J. W. Ellis read a paper entitled 

 " Remarks on the British specimens of the (so-called) Aphodius 

 melanostictus, Schmidt "; and he exhibited a number of specimens 

 and drawings of this species and of Aphodius inqidnatas, F. A 

 discussion ensued, in which Dr. P. B. Mason, Dr. Sharp, Mr. 

 Champion, and Dr. Ellis took part. Mr. E. Meyrick communi- 

 cated a paper " On the Pyralidina of the Hawaiian Islands," the 

 materials for which paper consisted principally of the collection 

 of Lepidoptera Heterocera formed by the Rev. T. Blackburn 

 during six years' residence in the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Mey- 

 rick pointed out that the exceptional position of these islands 

 renders an accurate knowledge of their fauna a subject of great 

 interest. He stated that of the fifty-six known species of 

 Hawaiian Pyralidina nine had probably been introduced through 

 the agency of man in recent times ; but he believed the remaining 

 forty-seven to be wholly endemic : of these latter the author 

 referred twenty-six species to the Botyd'ulce, twelve to the 

 Scopanadce, four to the Pterophoridce, three to the Cramh'ulce, and 



