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Cockayne, a Fellow of the Society, at Tongue, Sutherland- 

 shire, now in the Hope Museum, and a typical form for 

 comparison, corresponding apparently to the borealis of 

 Stephens. He also showed a series of P. gernia7iica to 

 illustrate the range of spotting on the wings of both sexes, 

 with two 3 3s and two $ ? s of P. communis ; and a pair 

 of a third species, F. cognata. The first two species are 

 common ; the third scarce. 



Mr. G. C. Champion showed a long series of a Ilenicopus 

 (probably H. sjnniger, Duval), taken by himself at El Barco, 

 Galicia, Spain, last July, to demonstrate the dimorphism of the 

 females : one form having wholly black hairs, and the other 

 wholly white (sometimes with a few black ones intermixed), 

 the males showing no variation in this respect. Bourgeois, 

 in his Monograph, noted the variability of the colour of the 

 hairs in various species of this genus, but makes no mention 

 of dimorphism in the females. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited seven specimens of 

 Prionocyphon serricornis, Mlill., bred from larvte taken in the 

 New Forest in July, living larvte, and a larva and pupa figured, 

 of the same, and made the following remarks on the species : — 



" Tlie life history of Prionocyphon was unknown to science. 

 Last year 1 took some larvae in water in a hole in a felled oak 

 in the New Forest, which I thought might be the larvaj of 

 PrionocyplLon. They all unfortunately escaped or died, but 

 my friend, Mr. Herewaid Dollman, figured one of the larva 

 for me, and this I exhibited at one of the meetings of our 

 Society. 



"This year, on Jvdy 17, 1 took some more of these larvae out 

 of the same tree in the Forest, and have succeeded in rearing 

 seven perfect insects so far. I placed the larvfe in a bowl, 

 with dead leaves, wood mould, and water out of the tree itself, 

 and a piece of the fresh bark on the top. Perfect insects 

 appeared on July 28, 29, 30, 31, and August 1. Some of the 

 larvae crawled on to the bark, and hid under the moss on it, to 

 pupate. A larva ■was observed to pupate on July 29 ; I took 

 it to the Museum and got it figured, and returned it to the 

 bowl, and it hatched on August 1, only three days being 

 passed in the pupal state. Eggs must have been deposited 



