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insects, segments of the abdomen distorted in such a manner 

 as hardly appeared consistent with life. Mr, Jennings 

 said that some years ago he had taken a weevil, Sitones 

 regentsteinennis, with a double club to one antenna, and 

 Mr. M. Burr said that it was not uncommon to find mal- 

 formations in the forceps of Earwigs which were not also 

 hermaphrodites. 



Later in the discussion, replying to Mr. Morice and Dr. 

 Chapman, the President said that during the past summer he 

 had been experimenting on the eyes of the larva? of IJnnomos 

 aut'immaria. In the attempt to ascertain the physiological 

 significance of the eyes, some of these larvoe had been blinded 

 with a photographic varnish rendered opaque with lamp-black. 

 It seemed impossible to imagine a more innocent material, 

 and furthermore the application was but of shoi^t duration, 

 for the varnish did not adhere well to the smooth chitin, 

 and was soon rubbed off — probably an accidental result of 

 the ordinary movements of the larvae. Nevertheless, when 

 the corresponding imagines emerged the speaker was intensely 

 surprised to find that the majority of them were devoid of 

 eyes, and that the antennae were generally rudimentary. He 

 could only suppose that something in the varnish, perhaps 

 the spirit, penetrated pores in the chitin and injured the 

 subjacent tissues. 



Ml-. H. St. J. K. DoNiSTHORPE exhibited Apioii sorhi, $ , 

 taken this year at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, and .said that 

 the S of this species was extremely rare. 



Mr. M. Burr exhibited two ? s and two c^s of the lai-gest 

 known earwig, Anisolohis colossea, Dolirn., from New South 

 Wales, representing the extremes of size, the average size 

 being between these two extremes. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited a specimen of the beetle 

 Ilomaimm tesiaceum taken in Blean Wood in 1900, and a pair 

 of bees Nomada guttulata, of which the c^ has never been 

 recorded hitherto in Britain, taken by him at Huntingford, 

 Kent, in May last. 



Dr. JSToHMAN Joy exhibited (1.) Euconnus Maklini, Mannerh., 

 taken at Bradfield in July 1901, new to the British list of 

 Coleoptera, and (2.) a series of beetles taken at Bradfield at the 



