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considerable period. — Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited a box of beetles from 

 New Guinea, including .-Esernia meeki, Jac, A.costata, Jac, A. gestroi, 

 Jac, and Cetoniada) and Lucauida) from South Africa and Borneo. — 

 Mr. H. 8t. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of llydrochns nitidkoUis, 

 Muls,, a beetle not hitherto recorded in Britain, taken in the river 

 Meavy at Yelverton, Devon, in April. — The Eev. F. D. Morice ex- 

 hibited lantern-slide photographs (from nature) of the female calcaria 

 postica in Hymenoptera belonging to divers groups, mostly Aculeates, 

 but including also representatives of the Chrysids, Ichneumonids, and 

 Sawflies. He submitted that, in all the examples shown, the structure 

 of the calcaria themselves (and also of the parts adjacent to them) 

 clearly indicated that their main function was that of an elaborately 

 constructed instrument for toilet purposes. The calcaria in all cases 

 seemed to explain satisfactorily all the structural phenomena presented 

 by them {e.g. serrated inner margins, pectiniform rows of spines and 

 bristles, brush-like pilose fascicules, &c.). He should be glad to hear 

 of any observations that might have been made as to the structure and 

 functions of calcaria in insects of other orders, having examined them 

 himself only in the Hymenoptera. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited male 

 and female specimens of the African Pierines Belenois thysa, Hopff, and 

 Mylothris agathina, Cram. He drew special attention to the fact that 

 the resemblance between these two species, which Mr. Trimen speaks 

 of as " deceptively close in both sexes," apphes mainly to the dry- 

 season phase of the Belenois, and not to the wet. This, he observed, 

 was well illustrated by the exhibit, which included wet- and dry-season 

 examples of both sexes of B. thysa ; 31. agathina showing no seasonal 

 change. — Mr. Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., contributed a paper 

 "On the Genus Inuna, Walk. {=Turtricomorpha, Feld.)." — Mr. H. 

 Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S., contributed a paper on " The late Pro- 

 fessor Packard's Paper on the Markings of Organisms." In the 

 absence of the author. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., explained the 

 drift of the paper, and expressed his agreement with the main lines of 

 its argument. 



Wed7iesday, June Gth. — Mr. F. Merrifield, President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Lomechusa stritmosa, 

 F., taken with Formica sanguinea at Woking on May 26th and 29th 

 last. Only two other British examples are known — one taken by Sir Hans 

 Sloane on Hampstead Heath in 1710 ; the other found by Dr. Leach in 

 the mail-coach between Gloucester and Cheltenham ; and these are 

 included in the British Museum Collection. — Mr. H. J. Turner showed 

 a case illustrating a large number of the life-histories of Coleophorids, 

 notes on which have appeared in the Society's ' Proceedings,' or in the 

 'Entomological Record.' — Mr. A. H. Jones showed on behalf of Mr. 

 Henry Lupton a few butterliies from Majorca, captured between April 

 8th and April 20th last. Comparing the specimens with those of 

 similar species from Corsica, also exhibited, they appeared to be smaller; 

 the Pararge viegara approached the form tigeUus ; the Catuonytnpha 

 pamphilus differed somewhat in the under side being darker. Only 

 one moth was seen, M. stellatarum. But so far under twenty species 

 only of butterflies have been recorded from the Balearic Islands. — Mr. 

 Selwyn Image showed: — (a) A specimen of Crambus ericellus, Hb., 

 taken at Loughton, Essex, August 8th, 1899— not previously recorded 



