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British Museum, was originally printed for nomination as 
Secretary, but that of Westwood was substituted in all the 
papers save one, which bore that of Edward Newman. 
Another paper shown was the MS. record of the visit of a 
deputation from the Council to Kensington Palace, June 29th, 
1835, when Her Majesty the Queen (then Princess Victoria) 
and the Duchess of Kent signed their names on the first page 
of the signature-book still used by the Society. 
The Secretary proposed to preserve a selection of these 
letters in an autograph book, and suggested that Fellows, who 
possessed other letters interesting from their contents or from 
the status of the writers, might perhaps be disposed to con- 
tribute them for that purpose. If of too recent a date to be 
fitly inserted, they could be preserved until a suitable time 
arrived for their incorporation. He thought that such a 
collection, in which the handwriting of past entomologists 
could be scrutinised, would be of real and practical value. 
Papers. 
A paper by Mr. E. E. Green, of Punduluoya, Ceylon, 
entitled “ Further notes on Dyscritina, Westwood,” was read 
and illustrated by specimens and drawings. 
The author had discovered two distinct species of Dyscri- 
tina, which he was able to keep in captivity, and rear from 
the early larval stage to that of the imago. The character- 
istic abdominal cerci increased in length with successive 
moults, until in D. longisetosa they became much larger than 
the body. In the penultimate stadium they were lost with- 
out a moult, being probably bitten off by the possessor, the 
long basal joints alone remaining. The imago was a typical 
earwig, the forceps being developed within the basal joints 
of the cerci. Sensory organs on the antenne and palpi were 
described, as well as the habits of both species. 
In the ensuing discussion Mr. M. Burr referred the 
imagos to the genera Cylindrogaster or Diplatys, that of D. 
longisetosa being, he believed, a known species. The genus 
Dyscritina must therefore be sunk. 
Mr. Ganan observed that the fact of the forceps being 
developed within the basal joints of the cerci alone did not 
