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April 26th. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Rowden, of Kingston Hill, was elected a member. Mr. Buckstone 

 exhibited specimens of Triplmna fimbria, bred from ova; the larvae had 

 been fed exclusively on cabbage. Mr. Turner, Longicorn Coleoptera : 



(1) Saperda populiiea, taken by Mr. Day at Carlisle; (2) Rhagiuni 

 bifasciatwn, from the New Forest; (3) Clytus vii/sticiis, from Brockley ; 

 (4) C. arietis, from Lewisham ; together with larvae of (1) CaUimorpha 

 dominula, from Deal, where they were comparatively scarce ; (2) 

 Bomhyx qiierciis, from Deal, on garden rose ; (3) Pericallia syringaria, 

 from Bexley. Mr. Moore, a Kaffir necklace made of ants' " eggs " ; these 

 so-called eggs are really the encysted pupte of a species of Coccid, of 

 subterranean habits, belonging to the genus Maryarodes. Mr. Lucas, a 

 specimen of the dragonfly, Sympetrum vulyatum, a male, taken by Mr. 

 Hamm, of Oxford, at Torquay on Aug. 15th, 1899 ; this is the second 

 authenticated British specimen. Mr. Adkin, a fine bred series oiEvgonia 

 fuscantaria , from Lewes ova, and stated it was easy to breed when 

 sleeved. Mr. Clark reported that he had received ova of Gonepteryx 

 rhamni which had been found deposited on the stems of the buckthorn. 

 Mr. Harrison reported having seen a dragonfly, Libellula quadrimaculata, 

 on the wing at Easter. 



May 10th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Adkin exhibited a 

 series of Cabera exanthemaria, showing variation in the relative positions 

 of the transverse lines. 



May 24r/t. — The President in the chair. Mr. Clark exhibited a 

 sawfly cocoon of a most delicate fibrous structure. Mr. Enock 

 gave a series of interesting notes, illustrated with admirable lantern- 

 slides, on various incidents in insect life, including (1) a long series of 

 slides showing all stages in the closing of the wings in the earwig ; 



(2) a series showing the gradual unfolding and growth of the wings in 

 Papilio machaon ; and (8) all stages in the emergence and hardening 

 process of Mschna cyanea. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



KuHLGATZ. Eine neue Plata spidinen-Gattung aus Deutsch Ost-Afrika mit 

 geweihartiger Verldngeriing der Jiiya beim Mdnnchen sowie iiber einige 

 der ndchsten Verwandten dieser neuen Gattung (S. B. Ges. Naturf. 

 Freunde, Berlin, 1900, pp. 120-135, figs. 1-3). [Rhynchota.] 



Herr Theodor Kuhlgatz describes an extraordinary Coptosomatine 

 (Cimicidae), closely allied to Plataspis, from German East Africa, 

 which he terms Elapheozygum goetzei, gen. et sp. n. In the male the 

 juga (the lateral portions of the dorsal part of the head) are enormously 

 elongate, being much longer than the thorax and abdomen together ; 

 each jugum is forked near the apex. Such an appearance is common 

 enough among Coleoptera, but in Rhynchota very rare. The female 

 is normal in structure, though an abnormal specimen of this sex is 

 figured, in which the left jugum is distinctly longer than the right; 

 this the author considers may perhaps be an hermaphrodite. The 

 paper concludes with an analytical table of the eleven genera of the 

 Plataspis group. — G. W. K. 



