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fuscous ground colour, and not the intense black ground colour 

 peculiar to the latter. Mr. Merrifield showed some Lepidoptera 

 collected in the latter half of May and the first week of June near 

 Axolo (Venetia), Eiva, and Bozen. They included some very fine 

 specimens of Syrichthus carthami, a very large Syntomis phegea, and 

 examples of Pararge egeria intermediate in colour between the Northern 

 and Southern European forms. Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a series 

 of extreme forms of Arctia lubricipeda var. fasciata, and also some 

 examples of what appeared to be a new form of the species, of 

 which he had bred a few during each of the past two seasons. Mr. 

 0. E. Janson exhibited an inflorescence of Arauja albens, Don., together 

 with a butterfly which had been entrapped by getting its proboscis 

 jammed in the slit between the anther-wings of one of the flowers. 

 It was found by Mr. C. J. Pool at Monte Video. Mr. Gahan stated 

 that, having since examined the beetle from Peru shown by Mr. Jacoby 

 at the previous meeting, he was now able to say definitely that it was 

 a Longicorn, and represented a new genus to be placed in the group 

 Acanthocinides of the family Lamiida?. He exhibited this beetle along 

 with a species of Diabrotica and a species of Lema from Peru, in order 

 to show the remarkably close resemblance in coloration between the 

 three species. 



April 5th. — Mr. G. H. Verrall, President, in the chair. Dr. 

 Frederick George Dawtrey-Drewitt, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.Z.S., of 

 2, Manchester Square, W. ; Mr. William E. Ryles, B.A., of 11, Waverley 

 Mount, Nottingham; and Mr. Albert Wade, of 1, Latham Street, 

 Preston, were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. Blandford exhibited 

 insects of different orders collected by Dr. Albert L. Bennett in West 

 Africa, and read some notes by Dr. Bennett on the habits of the Goliath 

 beetles. In reply to the remarks which followed, Dr. Bennett stated 

 that the male beetles use their cephalic horns in fighting with one 

 another, as well as for puncturing the bark of vines in order to bring 

 about a flow of the sap, upon which they feed. The Bev. Canon 

 Fowler showed a photograph of a large bee's nest found in an open 

 hedge near Wragby in Lincolnshire. Mr. McLachlan exhibited young 

 larvae of a " locust" received from Mr. E. A. Floyer, Director-General 

 of Telegraphy in Egypt, and said by him to have caused the Calotropis 

 trees in Nubia to be in a moribund condition. The larva? were identified 

 by Mr. Burr as those of a species of Pcecilocerus, probably P. vittatus, 

 Klug. Mr. Burr exhibited a specimen of Acridium tegyptium which 

 was found at Maidenhead. He also showed a remarkable clay model 

 of a Locustid with a Chinese inscription underneath, and requested 

 information as to the origin of such models. Mr. Blandford gave an 

 account of a paper by Dr. A. Ribaga, published in the ' Rivista di 

 Patologia Vegetale,' v, p. 348, on an asymmetrical structure occurring 

 in the adult female of the common bed-bug, and apparently hitherto 

 overlooked, although it communicated with the exterior by a conspicuous 

 notch in the fourth abdominal segment, midway between the median 

 line and the lateral margin. This structure consisted of a large quasi- 

 glandular mass of unknown nature in which was encapsuled an organ 

 consisting of fibres, the free ends of which terminated in minute 

 chitinous spines in a recess lying under the fourth abdominal segment. 

 The adjacent margiu of the fifth segment was thickened and set with 



