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The Secretary read a letter from Gunner John Wilson, of 

 the Roval Artillery, Woolwich, stating that he had bred a 

 gynandroraorphous specimen of Lasiocampa Qnercus : " it 

 shows the chocolate-coloured wings and feathered antenna 

 of the male on the left side ; on the right the wings are buff, 

 and the antenna is single as in the female, the abdomen 

 thicker and not tufted as on the other." 



Mr. Briggs (who was present as a visitor) exhibited a 

 Leucania, supposed to be Leucania V-alba, captured at 

 Folkstone on the 15th of August, at sugar; a second speci- 

 men, much worn, was taken in the second week of October, 

 within five yards of the same place. The insect appeared to 

 differ from any species hitherto recorded as British. 



Mr. H. Pryer exhibited a specimen of Scoparia Zelleri, 

 Wocke, captured in the railway station at Norwood Junction, 

 on the 17th of August, 1867. This was the first occurrence 

 of the species in Britain ; but the capture of a second speci- 

 men is announced in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 

 V. 131. 



Mr. Pryer also exhibited a specimen of Agrypnia picta, 

 Kolenati, an addition to the list of British Trichoptera. The 

 insect, a male, was captured at a gas-lamp at Highgate, in 

 June, 1868. 



With reference to the plague of so-called " mosquitoes" at 

 Plumstead and Woolwich, in the months of July and August, 

 the Secretary mentioned that iu the latter month he had had 

 sent to him from Woolwich two insects, each of which was 

 alleged to be the delinquent. The first was a golden-eye 

 (Chrysopa) ! the other was a veritable gnat, and was pro- 

 nounced by Mr. F. Walker to be the Culex uemorosus, a 

 species often troublesome in woods, though not usually 

 found in houses. Mr. Smith added that specimens of the 

 common house-gnat (Culex ciliaris) had been sent to the 

 British Museum as "the mosquito." [I have a rather dif- 

 ferent experience, having received Sirex gigas, Tipula ole- 

 racea, and Anthomyia carnaria, as the true mosquito, and 

 Macroglossa Stellalarum as the true humming bird : the 

 gentleman who kindly transmits the two species last-named 

 " has resided for years in Jamaica, has attentively studied 

 Natural History, and cannot be mistaken." — E. New?nan.] 



