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immediate vicinity of the Straits of Gibraltar. The collection included 

 sixty-eight species of butterflies, of which thirty-six were obtained on the 

 Rocli of Gibraltar itself, and the remainder on the European side of the 

 Straits, and about 160 species of moths. Dr. P. B. Mason exhibited a 

 number of specimens of a South-European species of Ant — Crematogaster 

 scutellaris, Oliv. He said that the specimens were all taken in the fernerv 

 of Mr. Baxter, of Burton-on-Trent, and had probably been imported witli 

 cork. Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a pair of Neplunldes stanleiji, a species 

 of Cetoniidae, recently received from Central Africa, and described by him 

 in the February number of the 'Entomologist'; also some varieties of 

 N. poli/chrous, I'homs., from the Zanzibar district. Dr. N. Manders 

 exhibited a number of Lepidoptera collected by himself in the Shan States, 

 Upper Burmah ; also a collection of Lepidoptera made by Captain Raikes 

 in Karenni. Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited over 400 specimens of Neuroptera, 

 being a portion of the collection formed in Japan by Mr. H. J. S. Pryer. 

 They represented nearly all groups (excepting OdoiuUa, now in the hands 

 of Baron De Selys). Some of the Ascalaphidae, Panorpidae, and especially 

 Trichoptera, were of great beauty ; notably amongst the latter was the 

 curious moth-like genus Ferissoneam, M'Lach. Dr. Sharp exhibited the 

 peculiar cocoons of an Indian moth, llkodia newara, Moore ; these were 

 the cocoons possessing a drain at the bottom in order to allow water to 

 escape, already described in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 

 1888, p. 120, where, however, their great resemblance to the pods of a 

 plant had not been alluded to. Mr. Enock exhibited, and made remarks 

 on, specimens of Cecidoinyia destructor, bred from American wheat. Mr. 

 W. Warren exhibited a bred specimen of Retinia posticana, Zett., from 

 Newmarket; also specimens of E upitkecia jasioneata and Gclechla coiijinis, 

 bred by Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited and 

 explained a number of diagrams illustrative of the external ch iracters of 

 the eyes of insects. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 Mr. Verrall, Lord Walsingham, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Kirby, and others took 

 part. Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of 

 some new Lepidoptera- Heterocera in the collection of the Honble. Walter 

 de Rothschild." He also contributed a second paper entitled *• Synonymic 

 Notes on the Moths of ihe earlier genera of Noctuites." Dr. Sharp read a 

 paper entitled "An Account of Prof. Plateau's Experiments on the Vision 

 of Insects." Lord Walsingham, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. White, and Mr. Water- 

 house took part in the discussion which ensued. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 May '25rd, 1889.— T. R, l)illups, F.E.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Tugwell exhibited Acidalia aversata, bred from a strongly-banded grey 

 form ; the only examples bred were specimens of a rich ochreous brown 

 banded form and the var. spoUata. Mr. Tutt, long series of Cidaria 

 truncata and C. iinniaiiata, also Tephrosia crcpuscularia and T. hiuudularia, 

 and made some observations on the two last species. Mr. South, long 

 series of Hijpsipetes sordidata, comprising examples of the species from 

 various English and Scotch localities, also of Larentia didyuiata, and read 

 notes relative to his exhibit. Mr. White, Hymtnoptera collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Colchester. Mr. Billups, LUhocharis pkeus, Actobius 

 siyiiaticoniis, and A. villosulus, from Lewi^ham ; also the ichneumon 

 Banchus varicyator, bred from I'mudls piniperdd, and Ophioti lidetiui, brtd 



