July—Scptfiiibcr 1SS5.] 



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or ■■Spiehu'ten" as the Germans designate 

 them. I have at various times bred or acquired 

 otherwise examples of Telea polvp/iemiis des- 

 titute of the ocellate spots of the primaries; 

 also of endless variety of color ; t.i'i Antlirnica 

 YttniLimrii I Iia\'e some sulphur, others oli\e, 

 and one black; of Tropaea lima some with 

 two ocelli on one upper wing, and one with- 

 out ocelli on any of the W'ings; and so on. I 

 might go on enumerating hundreds in mv 

 own possession, besides many more scattered 

 in various collections over the world. — Her- 

 man Strecker, Reading, Penn.] 



5. Dec. 1SS3. — Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited 

 some remarkable insects' nests from Delagoa 

 Bay. They varied from lialf an inch [13 mm.] 

 to an inch and a quarter [32 mm.] in length, 

 and in shape from globular to ovate. Thev 

 were semitransparent, yellowish, and tlio sui- 

 face, under a lens, had a reticuhite appearance ; 

 on one side, from the base to the ape.K was a 

 stout suture, to wliich was attached a septum 

 extending about two-thirds across the interior; 

 on each side of this septum, but away from the 

 suture, were placed in an erect position about 

 120 cylindrical eggs. These nests had much 

 the appearance of the dried pods of the "blad- 

 der senna;" they were retained by a movable 

 loop to the slender twigs of a shrub which 

 Sir Joseph Hooker had pronounced to be a 

 Rhamnu$. 



Mr. R. McLachlan considered that these 

 curious bladder-like egg-cases belonged to 

 one of the mantidae. 



Mr. Wood-Mason did not think they should 

 be attributed to the iiiuutidae, altho possibly 

 it might be so; lie pointed out that the eggs 

 were arranged in quite a different manner to 

 those of any I\Iiui/is he liad seen. He also 

 suggested that the large vacant space existing 

 between the egg-mass and the outside of the 

 capsule w'ould probably be protective against 

 parasitic insects. — Abstracted and compiled 

 from Trans. Eiitoin. soc . Lond., iSS^i Proc.^ 



2 April 1SS4. — Mr. H. J. Elwes read a 

 paper, " On the genus Parnassir/s." especiallv 



referring to the anal pouch in the females as 

 a specific character, and to the geographical 

 distribution of the species; and made some 

 remarks on their life-history. Mr. Elwes 

 commented on the fact that almost every sys- 

 tematic writer except ilni^diual had entirely 

 o\erlooked the presence of the anal pouch. 

 He illustrated his remarks bv niniierous dia- 

 grams, and bv the exhibition of specimens of 

 e\<'rv known species and form occurring in 

 the genus. 



Lord Walsingham communicated a paper 

 on "North American tortricidac." [Rec. 

 39,3s.] 



7 May 1SS4.— Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited 

 a remarkalily small and dark variety of Samiu 

 cecropia Linn., hretl b\' Mr. Alfred Wailly. 



Mr. .\. S. Olliff exhibiteil a new species of 

 Helota. collected in .\ngola by Di'. Welvvitsch. 

 The genus was prcvioush- known onlv from 

 eastern Asia. Mr. Olliff said that Lord Wal- 

 singham had pointed out to him a similar 

 and equally unexpected case of geographical 

 distribution in tlie genus Deuterocopiis o{ 

 Zeller, belonging to the pteropAoridae, which 

 up to this time had only been known from 

 Java, and of which he has lately received 

 an undescribed species from Bathurst, West 

 Africa. 



Mr. A. G. Butler communicated a short 

 paper by Mr. A: R. Grote entitled, "Note 

 on the North American genus Hemileuca." 



Mr. W: H. Patton communicated "Some 

 notes on the classification and svnonvmv of 

 fig-insects." 



2 Jur.Y 18S4.— Dr. Fritz Miiller (of Blum- 

 enau, Santa Catharina. Brazil) and Dr. A. 

 S. Packard (of Providence, Rhode Island. 

 \j. S. A. ) were elected honorary memhers of 

 society. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens 

 (some living) of Pelopaeiis architcctiis, and 

 its nest, which w;ls found attached to a leaf 

 of tobacco from Owensboro. Kentucky, and 

 taken from a hogshead recently opened at 

 Whitechapel, Elngland. 



Mr. W. V. Kirbv said that he had seen a 



