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SOCIETIES. 
EnromonoaicaL Society or Lonpon. — August 4th, 1886. 
Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Life-President, in the 
chair. The following gentlemen were elected Fellows, viz. :— 
Lord Dormer, Mr. J. H. A. Jenner, Mr. James Edwards, Mr. 
Morris Young, Mr. F. V. Theobald, Mr. E. A. Atmore, and Mr. 
William Saunders, President of the Entomological Society of 
Ontario. Mr. Theodore Wood exhibited and made remarks on 
the following Coleoptera, viz.: —An abnormal specimen of Apion 
pallipes, with a tooth upon the right posterior femur; a series of 
Langelangdia anophthalmi from St. Peter's, Kent, taken in decay- 
ing seed-potatoes; a series of Adelops Wollastoni (Janson), and 
Anommatus 12-striatus, also from decaying seed potatoes; and a 
series of Barypeithes pellucidus (Boh.), from the sea-shore near 
Margate. Mr. Wood also exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Ellis, of 
Liverpool, a specimen of Apion annulipes (Wenck). Prof. 
Westwood exhibited five specimens of a species of Culez, 
supposed to be either C. cantans or C. lateralis, sent to him 
by Mr. Douglas, who had received them from the Kent 
Waterworks. It was stated that they had been very numerous in 
July last, and that persons bitten by them had suffered from 
‘terrible swellings.” Prof. Westwood also exhibited some galls 
found inside an acorn at Cannes in January last. Mr. Billups 
exhibited a male and female of Cleptes nitidula (Latr.) taken in 
copula in July last, at Benfleet, Essex, on the flowers of 
Heracleum sphondylium. He stated that it was probably the 
rarest of the twenty-two known species of British Chrysidide, 
though it had been recorded from the New Forest and from 
Suffolk. Prof. Westwood, the Rev. W. W. Fowler, Mr. Fitch, 
and Mr. Champion, made some remarks on the species. The 
Rev. W. W. Fowler announced that a series of specimens of 
Homalium rugulipenne (Rye) had been received from Dr. Ellis, of 
Liverpool, for distribution amongst members of the Society. 
Mr. White exhibited a group of three specimens of Lucanus 
cervus consisting of a female and two males. The female was in 
copulé with one of the males, which, while so engaged, was 
attacked by the second male. Mr. EK. A. Fitch read a paper, 
communicated by Mr. G. Bowdler Buckton, “ On the occurrence 
in Britain of some undescribed Aphides.” The paper was 
