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large number of Coleoptera from the Transvaal and Orange Colony 

 taken by himself during a short residence in South Africa. 



Fehruarij 2i7th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. South exhibited 

 a specimen of a very interesting form of Macaria litnrata, which he 

 had received from Mr. J. Arkle, who took it, with others, in Delamere 

 Forest last year. Tliis form is heavily suffused with fuliginous brown ; 

 it has been figured in vol. vi. of Barrett's ' Lepidoptera of the British 

 Islands,' and Mr. Collins has recently proposed the name ni(jrofulvata 

 for it (Entom. xxxiv. 364). — Mr. McA.rthur, an example of Ar/rotis 

 segetiim, having a narrow, very dark marginal band on each of the 

 hind wings, the white ground colour and fringes making it a very 

 conspicuous character. — Mr. Edwards, an unusually large and perfect 

 nest of Ve&pa vtdi/aris, obtained near Rochester in a hollow tree. — Dr. 

 Chapman, specimens of Crinoptenjx yancUiella bred from larvfe. It 

 belonged to the lower section of the Adelidje, and lived in cases like 

 the Coleophorte, to which it had no structural relation whatever. — 

 Mr. R. Adkiu, long bred series of Acidalia marfjiitepunctata, and read 

 a paper on them entitled, "A Life-cycle of Acidalia marginepunctata.''^ 

 A discussion ensued, when it was pointed out that the genus certainly 

 required subdivision, both on account of diversity of structure and of 

 distinction of habit. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — January 20^/t. — Mr. H. 

 Willoughby Ellis, Vice-President, in the chair. — The following were 

 exhibited : — By Mr. R. C. Bradley, a series of Hyetodesia vayans, 

 a species which is not included in Mr. G. H. Verrall's recent list 

 of British Diptera, but which is common and well-known in Sutton 

 Park ; also a specimen of Sphex phniipennis taken by Mr. J. T. 

 Fountain in Jersey last year. It is a large and handsome Fossore, 

 which is uncommon in Britain. By Mr. C. J. Wainwright, Khyssa 

 persuasoria, one of our largest, handsomest, and rarest Ichneumonids, 

 taken by Mr. J. T. Fountain in Derbyshire last year; also a fine series 

 of Trupidia scita (viilesiforniis), taken near Paignton, South Devon, 

 in a damp meadow by the sea ; it is a species which is common 

 in the fens, but was not known before from the West of England ; it 

 was, however, in abundance at this one spot. By Mr. H. Willoughby 

 Ellis, the following Coleoptera : — Xebria yyllenhali, from Matlock ; 

 PterosticJms uhlongo-punctatus, from Buxton, and Liusoma ovatulum var. 

 collaris, from Knowle. The last-named was a form which he said 

 some Coleopterists believed to be only an immaturity, but he had taken 

 it at all times of the year, and many specimens were undoubtedly 

 mature. By Mr. Aug. D. Imms, extreme forms of Satyrus semele, 

 from Wales ; one, very dark and strongly marked, came from near 

 Barmouth, and was taken on the slate ; and the other, a light, 

 bleached-looking, but apparently perfect specimen, from near Llan- 

 dudno, where it was taken on limestone. Mr. Imms read a paper 

 upon " The Structure and Distribution of the Collembola," in which 

 he gave a thorough account of the external and internal anatomy, 

 with some account of the embryology, and illustrated it with black- 

 board drawings and microscope preparations. 



February 11th. — Annual Meeting. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, 

 President, in the chair. — The Thirteenth Annual Report of the 

 Council was read, and the Treasurer's Annual Report presented, 



