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but no serious modification of the proportions is to be expected. 

 Mr. Wiggins' very large and interesting series of captures, 

 bearing upon many bionomic problems of the highest interest, 

 are now being studied in the Hope Department by Mr. S. A. 

 Neave, B,A., of Magdalen College. 



Paper. 

 Mr. G. A. J. RoTHNEY communicated "Descriptions of 

 twelve new genera and species of Ichneumonidee, and three 

 new species of Ampidex from India," by Peter Cameron. 



Wednesday, June 3rd, 1903. 



Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited numerous specimens of 

 Coccinella distincta, taken during the past few days in the 

 pine woods of Woking. They were found, as usual, running 

 about the ground in company with Formica rufa, and were 

 perhaps wanderers from some other locality. Mr. Donis- 

 THORPE said the species was still common at Weybridge in 

 the nests of Formica rufa, and that he had observed it 

 also at Bexhill, while Mr. Ciiitty noted its former occurrence 

 in Blean Woods in great numbers. The life history of the 

 larva, he said, had not been worked out. Mr. Champion 

 suggested that it might pick up stray aphids dropped by the 

 ant. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited a very remarkable 

 melanic form of Halyzia IS-c/uttak/, L., black with white 

 spots, the type, which was also exhibited, being light brown 

 with white spots. The former was taken at Oxshott on the 

 22nd May. He also exhibited Stilicus frayilis, Gr., a 

 melanic foi^m with a black thorax instead of red as in the 

 type, taken at Shirley on May 15th; and StaphyUnus falvlpes, 

 Scop., taken by himself at Bamber Forest on June 1st, a new 

 locality for this rare beetle. 



