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spring a leak. This voyage took place in the year 1593; and the 

 worms, he thought, could only have been the larvae of Dermestes 

 vidpinus or some closely allied species. Dr. T. A. Chapman read a 

 "Contribution to the Life-history of Micropteryx (Eriocephala) am- 

 manella, Hubn." 



March 1st. — Mr. G. H. Verrall, President, in the chair. Mr. G. J. 

 Arrow, of the British Museum (Natural History) ; Mr. G. B. Chalcraft, 

 of Leicester; Mr. C. E. Collins, of Stoneham, Calcot, Reading; Mr. 

 Percy W. Farmborough, F.Z.S., of Lower Edmonton; Mr. Montague 

 Gunning, of Narborough. Leicester ; Mr. Harry Moore, of 12, Lower 

 Road, Rotberhithe ; and Mr. H. S. Woolley, of 7, Park Road, Greenwich, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a 

 specimen of a rare British beetle, Quedius longicornis, Ktz., recently 

 taken at Cobham Park, Kent. Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited a Halticid 

 beetle from Sumatra, of the genus Chalomus, Westw., and called 

 attention to the remarkable position of its eyes, these organs being 

 placed at the end of two very distinct lateral processes of the head, 

 somewhat resembling the stalked eyes of crabs and other Crustacea. 

 He said this character was peculiar to the male sex, and was very 

 exceptional in Coleoptera, not being met with in any other genus of 

 Phytophaga, and only occurring in a few Anthribidae, and in isolated 

 cases in one or two otber families. He also showed a beetle from Peru, 

 which was sent to him in a collection of Phytophaga, and which, 

 superficially, was very like certain members of that group ; but, from 

 the structure of the antennas and other characters, it appeared to be 

 out of place in the Phytophaga, and probably belonged to some other 

 family. Mr. Gahan remarked that this beetle, to whatever family it 

 might prove to belong, was very interesting, not only from its structural 

 peculiarities, but also from the fact that it had the colour and markings 

 characteristic of certain species of Galerucidae, a family to which it 

 undoubtedly was not in any way closely related. This fact seemed to 

 show that it was a mimetic form, and thus helped to explain the 

 present obscurity surrounding its affinities. Mr. J. J. Walker read a 

 short extract from the account given in " The Last Voyage of Thomas 

 Candish," to which he had referred in the course of his remarks on 

 Mr. Blandford's exhibit at the previous meeting. Mr. G. J. Arrow 

 contributed a paper " On Sexual Dimorphism in Beetles of the Family 

 Rutelidse," and sent for exhibition a series, including both sexes, of six 

 species of Anomala, selected to illustrate the subject of his paper. — 

 J. J. Walker and C. J. Gahan, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 —Annual Meeting, Jan. 26th, 1899. Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., in the 

 chair. A very satisfactory balance-sheet was adopted, and the 

 Council's Report, giving a resume of the past year's work, having 

 been read, the following gentlemen were declared elected to fill the 

 various offices in the Society: — A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.E.S., &c, 

 President; Dr. Chapman, F.E.S., and J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Vice- 

 Presidents; T. W. Hall, F.E.S., Treasurer; H. A. Sauze, Librarian ; 

 W. West, Curator; Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.E.S., and Hy. J. 

 Turner, F.E.S., Hon. Secretaries; R. Adkin, F.E.S., F. Clark, H. S. 



