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varieties put together, and is one with which I have been familiar 

 all my life. (B.) Body black, banded with tm-quoise-blue ; head 

 likewise turquoise-blue and black ; this is not a type with which 

 I am familiar; female; single specimen taken by me in Wanstead 

 Park in the afternoon of June 28th. (C.) Body dusky, banded 

 with creamy rings; head likewise dusky; female; I have observed 

 this type all my life. (D.) Body dusky, banded with creamy 

 rings, like the female, with the exception of the last segment, 

 which is turquoise-blue and black ; head turquoise-blue and 

 black; male?; I have noticed this type during more than one 

 season ; whether variety or distinct species, it is constant. 

 (E.) Body dark grey, with the exception of the last segment, 

 which is turquoise-blue and black ; head also dark ; eyes of dark 

 coral-red, not turquoise-blue, as in the case of the other types ; 

 male presumably ; two specimens from Wanstead Park. Type A, 

 extremely common; C and D, fair number; B and E, rare. — 

 F. A.Walker; Dun Mallard, Cricklewood, N.W., June 28, 1887. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Juhj Qth, 1887. Dr. 

 D. Sharp, F.Z.S., President, in the chair. The Rev. W. T. H. 

 Newman, M.A., 11, Park Terrace, The Crescent, Oxford, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that 

 at the meeting of the Society in October, 1886, he exhibited a 

 quantity of the so-called "jumping seeds" from Mexico, con- 

 taining larvae of Carpocapsa saltitans, Westw. The seeds had 

 long ceased to "jump," which proved that the larvae were either 

 dead, had become quiescent, or had pupated ; about a fortnight 

 ago he opened one of the seeds, and found therein a living pupa. 

 On the 4th inst. a moth (exhibited) was produced. The President, 

 on behalf of the Rev. H. S. Gorham, exhibited the following 

 Coleoptera, lately taken in the New Forest : — Anoplodera sex- 

 guttata, Fab., wholly black variety; Grammoptera analis, Fab.; 

 Colydiuin elongatiim, Fab. ; and a specimen of Tachiniis elongatus, 

 Gyll., with brownish-red elytra. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a spe- 

 cimen of Orsodacna humeralis, Latr. {lineola, Panz., var.), taken 

 by him at Norwood : he also exhibited a specimen of the same 

 beetle taken by him fifty years ago in Coombe Wood ; during the 



