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Bombyx orchadama from Madagascar. Mons. Wailly stated that 
several of the large South African Saturnide formed no cocoons, 
the larvee entering the earth to undergo the change to the pupal 
state. Mr. Trimen said he was able to confirm this statement. 
The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited a number of minute Acari, 
which had been doing injury to fruit trees near Lincoln. Mr. 
Poulton gave an account of the experiments recently made by 
him with the larvee of several species of the genus Vanessa, for 
the purpose of ascertaining the relations of pupal colour to that 
of the surface on which the larval skin is thrown off, which had 
formed the subject of a paper read by him last month before the 
British Association. He also exhibited the frame constructed ° 
by him for the purpose of these experiments. The President 
and Messrs. Trimen, Waterhouse, White, Hall, and others took 
part in the discussion which ensued. Mr. Slater exhibited a 
specimen of Prionus coriarius, found in Devonshire on fennel, 
and a specimen of Calandra palmarum found alive at Pembroke 
Dock. Mr. Enock exhibited Mymar pulchellus, and a specimen 
of Atypus piceus recently taken on Hampstead Heath. Mr. 
Elisha exhibited a series of Gelechia hippophaélla (Sch.), bred 
from larve collected at Deal on Hippophaé rhamnoides. Mr. 
Billups exhibited Hchthrus lancifer, Gr.,a species of Ichneumonide 
new to Britain, taken at Walmer on the 15th August last. He 
remarked that Brischke had bred members of this genus from 
Sesia sphegiformis, S. formiciformis, and Leucania obsoleta; but 
that in this country the genus was little known, only one species 
(Echthrus reluctator) being mentioned in Marshall’s list of British 
Ichneumonide. Mr. E. A. Butler exhibited a male and female of 
Macrocoleus tanaceti from Bramley, near Guildford ; living speci- 
mens of Chilacis typhe, received from the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, 
of Guestling, Hastings; and a pair of Harpalus discoideus, 
obtained in August last, on a heath near Chilworth, Surrey. 
Mr. A. J. Rose exhibited specimens of a mountain form of 
Lycena virgaurea, recently collected by him in Norway. Mr. 
Champion exhibited Teratocoris antennatus and Drymus pilicornis, 
taken near Sheerness. Mr. W. White exhibited specimens of 
Proctotrypes ater (Nees) ; he also exhibited a specimen of Chelonia 
caia with abnormal antenne, and read notes on the subject. 
Mr. Elisha read a paper “ On the life-history of Geometra 
smaragdaria.” Mr. ©. O. Waterhouse communicated a paper 
