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exhibited the insects recently taken by him in Kerguelen's 

 Island. There were about a dozen belonging to the 

 Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera, besides some speci- 

 mens of bird-lice and fleas. 



Sound produced by Halias prasina7ia. — Mr. Briggs exhi- 

 bited a specimen of Halias prasinana, which, when taken, was 

 heard to squeak very distinctly, and at the same time a 

 slender filament issuing from beneath the abdomen was 

 observed to be in rapid motion, and two small spiracles close 

 to the filament were distinctly dilated. 



Livhig Larva in Andrena Trimmerana. — The President 

 called attention to a living larva which he had that morning 

 extracted from the body of a stylopized female of Andrena 

 Trimmerana, taken at Reigate on the 4th of Jime, — this larva 

 having a long attenuated telescopic process at the anterior 

 extremity, and two piceous reniform appendages behind, like 

 that of Conops, which he had frequently reared from Pompilus, 

 Sphex, and Odynerus, as described by him in the ' Trans- 

 actions' (vol. iv,, ser. 2, 1858, pi. 28). These larvae had also 

 been met with in Bombus by Latreille, Dufour, and others, as 

 well as in Osmia, but not in Andrena, which moreover had 

 been doubly victimized in the present instance, having the 

 greater portion of the abdomen preoccupied by another 

 invader, and thriving in spite of this and of the Conops larva 

 subsequently lodged at the base. 



Podura found on Snow. — The Secretary exhibited some 

 specimens of a minute Podura, forwarded to him by the 

 Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, having been 

 found on the snow of the Sierra Nevada, in California. 



Flea attached to the Neck of a Fowl. — Mr. F. H. Ward 

 exhibited some microscopic slides showing specimens of a 

 flea attached to the skin of the neck of a fowl, and which 

 remained there after the death of the fowl. 



July 5, 1875. 



Death of Mr. Douhleday. — The President announced the 

 decease of Mr. Henry Doubleday, one of the Original 

 Members of the Society; and Mr. Stainton made some 

 remarks on his entomological labours, and on the great 

 service he had done for Entomology in correcting the 

 nomenclature of the British Lepidoptera. 



