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Entomological Society of London. — June 5th, 1901. — The Kev. 

 Canon W. W. Fowler, M.A., President, in the chair. — Mr. G. C. 

 Champion exhibited a male specimen of Oduntcciis niubilicomis, one of 

 the rarest of British beetles, captured at Woking on May 28th. Mr. 

 Douisthorpe said that the same species had also been taken this year 

 at Bournemouth by Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. — Mr. R. McLachlan ex- 

 hibited four specimens of a curious bug of the genus HenU-oeephalus, 

 received from Mr. G. V. Hudson, of Wellington, New Zealand ; he 

 thought the genus, although of very wide distribution, had not pre- 

 viously been noticed in that country. Mr. Champion said that tienico- 

 cephaliis was generally recognized as a type in itself of a family, and 

 Mr. Kirkaldy that it was much commoner than generally supposed. It was 

 probably only an aberrant form of the Reduviidte having no stridulating 

 apparatus on the prosternum.— Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a series of 

 Smerinthus tUia:, bred during May, 1900 and 1901, including one male 

 specimen having the right upper wing banded, the left wing with the two 

 ordinary spots ; a banded female ; a male with only one spot ; and a 

 richly coloured female. — Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited imagines, cocoons, 

 pupa-skins, and also water-colour sketches of larvae, reared and drawn 

 by Miss Frances Barrett, at Buntingville, Pondoland, South Africa, 

 including Hesperia keitloa, Leucaloa eugraphica, Liparis pulverea, Leno- 

 dora montana, Trabele ochroleuca, Chiiena prompta, Braura lir/niclusa, 

 Eutricha pithyocampa, Dulichia fasciata, Porela sobria, Rhanidophnra 

 phedonia, Sphinyomorpha chlorea {monteironis). — Dr. A. Jefferis Turner 

 exhibited specimens of Australian wood-boring Lepidoptera belonging 

 to four different families. They included — Pyralidfe : Doddiana 

 xjjlori/ctis, Turn. Gelechidje : ('ri/ptophasa/iatolineata and C. Iieniipsila, 

 Turn., Marofja mijthica, Meyr., 3/. setiotruha, Meyr., Uzucha borealis, 

 Turn. Cossidte : Dadi/eona actinias, Turn., Xyleutes piddva, Roths., X. 

 macleayei, X. neplutcostna. Turn. Hepialidte: Charayia >nirabilis. Roths., 

 C. ramsai/i, Scott, and C. ci/aiiurhlora, Lower. — Mr. H. Goss exhibited, 

 for Mr. Ernest Ardron, of Colombo, Ceylon, two specimens of a species 

 of Phy Ilium (Phasmidae). They bore an extraordinary resemblance to 

 leaves. He also showed three varieties of the male of Melitcea cinxia, 

 which he had taken on May 27th and 28th at Niton, Isle of Wight. — 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited two new genera and species of 

 Coleoptera, recently described by him in the Anu. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 from Rio Janeiro. One belonged to the aberrant Prisnidas {Pathocerua 

 wayneri) ; the other [Tetraphalerus wayufri) belonged to the Cupesidas, 

 and was remarkable for the form of its head. He also exhibited male 

 and female of the curious Scarabaeid, Glyphoderes sterquilinus. West., 

 from North Argentina. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited a glove 

 burnt by discharges of formic acid in the nests of Formica rufa. In 

 connection with the apparatus exhibited at the last meeting to deter- 

 mine the strength of this acid, Professor Poulton said that the dis- 

 charges collected in the tubes fluctuated greatly in strength, the 

 strongest yielding a proportion of sixty to seventy per cent, of 

 anhydrous acid, a drop of which placed by Mr. Holroyd on the back 



