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vcrsaria male, every specimen being var. conversaria and every one a 

 female. — Mr. E. E. Green, specimens and drawings of a new British 

 Coccid, discovered at Camberley upon grasses in uncultivated meadows, 

 referable to Signoret's genus Fairmairia (now known as Parafair- 

 mairia). — TheEev. F. D. Morice (1) Gynandromorphous Hylczus {Pro- 

 sojyis) brevicornis ; (2) HaUctus lavigatus male. In this specimen there 

 were only two cubital cells in each upper wing, as in Diifourea, Halict- 

 oichs, &c. ; (3) a larva (in spirit) and numerous imagines — all females — 

 of the Sawfly P^cro?z?<s {Lophyrus) sertifer { — " Tenthreclo pcctinata 

 rufa" of Retzius) with cocoons from which they emerged. — Prof. Poul- 

 ton said that since the June meeting of the Society he had received 

 several interesting letters and boxes of specimens from Dr. Carpenter, 

 some of which he read and exhibited. — Mr. Donisthorpe, a colony of 

 Myrmecina graminicola, Latr., which he had kept in captivity for 

 over five years, his object in showing this colony being to call atten- 

 tion to the number of winged females w^hich had been reared in the 

 nest this summer. — The following papers were read : " Observations 

 Completing an Outline of the Life History of Lyccena avion, L.," by 

 T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S.; "Further Observations on 

 the Last Stage of the Larva of Lycana avion," by F. W. Frohawk, 

 M.B.O.U., F.E.S. ; " A Contribution to the Life History of Agviades 

 eschevi, Hb.," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; " On the 

 Early Stages of Latiorina [Lycczna) pyrenaica, Boisd.," by the same; 

 " Notes on the Early Stages of Scolitantides avion. Pall.," by the 

 same; "New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands," by J. J. 

 Joicey, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., and G. Talbot, F.E.S. ; " Some New 

 Pavnassii," by A. Avinoff, F.E.S. ; " A New Micropterygid from 

 AustraHa," by A. Jefferies Turner, M.D., F.E.S. ; " Eecord of some 

 New Species of the Genus Tevacolus Occurring in the Northern 

 Territories of the Gold Coast, W. Africa," by G. C. Dudgeon, F.E.S. ; 

 " Glossina movsitans, Westw., some Notes on the Parasitization of 

 its Pupae," by Hereward C. Dollman, F.E.S.— Geoege Wheeler, 

 Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— Oc^o^c?- 14^/i.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.B.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. — Mr. Sano exhibited a large number of lantern-slides 

 illustrative of the life-history of Geotvupes stevcovavius, and con- 

 tributed a series of notes. — Mr. Priske, the seven British species of 

 the genus Geotvupes, including a coppery-coloured aberration of G. 

 stevcovavius. — Mr. Main, cages ari'anged by himself to watch the 

 method of cell-making by these beetles. — Mr. Newman, a long bred 

 series of Ap)lecta nehidosa from a pairing of v. vohsoni ; of 350 reared 

 53 per cent, were vohsoni, 2-4 per cent, thompsoni, and 26 per cent, 

 typical ; also a long series of Boavmia vepandata, the result of cross- 

 ing a male convevsaria with female type ; most of the brood were 

 reared, every specimen was convevsavia, and every one a female. 

 Mr. Newman recorded the fact of the ab. vavleyata of Ahvaxas 

 gvossulaviata disappearing from a strain which contained it and re- 

 appearing after five years. — Mr. P. A. Buxton communicated, from 

 his brother in the Dardanelles, an instance of a bird — a young 

 Butcher-bird — attacking and capturing a large Hawk-moth. — Mr. 



