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Yerbury said that he had met with the same species in some 

 numbers in Scotland. One female observed in the act of 

 oviposition >had thrust her ovipositor which is about the 

 consistency of a human hair through an inch of fir trunk. 



Col. Yerbury exhibited: — (1) a rare sawfly Xyphidria 

 caiaelns taken in Scotland this year at Nethy Bridge. The 

 species is mentioned in the old books as extinct in the United 

 Kingdom, and Mr. Waterhouse said there were no modern 

 specimens in the Natural History Museum collection ; (2) 

 rare diptei'a from Scotland including (a) Laphria Jiava, two 

 males from Nethy Bridge ; (b) C liamsesyophus scsevoides, new 

 to the fauna of Great Britain, from the Mound, Sutherland, 

 where it was common on Umbelliferje under fir trees in a damp 

 wood, one female also being taken on the path up Cairngorm 

 near Glenmore Lodge ; (c) Microdon devius ; (d) ChUosia 

 chrysocoma at mountain-ash blossom, Nethy Bridge ; and (e) 

 /Stomphastica Jiava, two males from Golspie, September 1900. 



Mr. H. K, DoNiSTHORPE exhibited (1) a specimen of Bru- 

 silla canalicniata with the dead body of a Myr'mica in its 

 mouth captured at Chiddingfold on July 17 ; (2) Specimens 

 of Myrmedonia coUaris and its larva taken in Wicken Fen 

 with M. Icevinodis in August 1900. 



The Kev. F. D. Morice exhibited a remarkable hermaphro- 

 dite of the bee Podalirius ( = Anthophora) retusus, in which 

 the male characters were confined to the left side of the head 

 and genitalia, the right side of the thorax and the abdominal 

 segments. The antennte and hind (pollinigerous) legs were 

 those of a female, and the genitalia half of each sex. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited beetles of the genus Orina, and 

 remarked on the fact that while some were viviparous others 

 were ovipai-ous, in some cases of the former the larvse being 

 developed in the oviducts^ 



Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a collection of lepidoptei-a from 

 Greece, taken this season in conjunction with Miss Fountaine 

 in the Morea, and in the Parnassus region. He remarked that 

 the country about Athens was much dried up and overrun 

 with goats and herds, and that therefore the lepidopterovis 

 fauna there was poor. On the south side of the Gulf of Corinth, 

 however, the Pieridi were well represented, and out of eight 



