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fastened on the stem of a tree. Also a small beetle, Semiclaviger 
stkore, Wasmann, which came out of this nest, and is a guest of 
C. schenki.—Mx. C. B. Williams, specimens of the genus Acerentulus of 
the order Protura.—Mr. E. B. Ashby, a female of Dryas pandora, with 
darkly suffused underside hind wing, very near the ab. llacina, 
Obth., from La Granja; also an aberration of Melitea athalia, from 
Hinterzarten, belonging to the eos group of aberrations of this 
species.—The following papers were read :—‘ Descriptions of South 
American Micro-Lepidoptera,” by E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., F.E.S. ; 
«A Revision of the Tipulid Genus Styringomyia,” by F. W. Edwards, 
F.E.S.—Gro. WHEELER, M.A., Hon. Sec. 
Tae Soura Lonpon EnromonocicaL AND Naturat History 
Socrety.—April 23rd.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., President, in 
the chair.—A special exhibition of Orders other than Lepidoptera. 
—Mr. C. W. Colthrup exhibited a large collection of British land 
shells—Mr. Stanley Edwards, numerous large and conspicuous 
species of exotic Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.—Mr. Ashdown, a 
collection of Swiss Coleoptera, including forty species of Longicornia 
taken by himself—Mr. Gibbs, the lantern-flies ulgoria lanternaria 
and other conspicuous insects sent to him from British Honduras 
among a collection of butterflies and moths.—Mr. Step, male and 
female Astlus crabronifornus, a predaceous Dipteron, with Tachinus 
grossa and T’. fera, two hairy flies which attack larve.—Mr. West 
(Greenwich), thirteen drawers of the Society’s reference collection 
(Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera), 
a box of typical examples of Diptera presented to the Society by Mr. 
Andrews, and his own collection of British Homoptera.—Mr. C. B. 
Williams, the beetle Lochmea suturalis, on heather from Cheshire, 
and willow-stems damaged by larvee of Cecidomyia saliciperda.— 
Mr. Andrews, the following very rare Diptera, and contributed 
notes :—Lispe pygmea, Fall., Limmophora estuum, Vill., Macronychia 
grvseola, Fall., all from Porthcawl, Phorbia parva, Ztt., from 
Chattenden, Fannia ciliata, Stein., from Milford, and Chirosia 
parvicorns, Ztt., from North Kent.--Mr. Dennis, photograph of 
plant-galls—Mr. H. E. Green, many species of Coccidwx, largely from 
Ceylon, with coloured drawings of their life-histories—Mr. B. Adkin, 
pieces of bark showing depredations of the Homoptera Chermes 
corticalas on larch, and C. virzdis on Weymouth pine.—Mr. Moore, 
nine hundred and twenty-five mites of the genus Gamisus taken from 
a beetle.—Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SocinTy.—Meeting 
held at the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, March 16th, 
1914.—Mr. R. Wilding, President, in the chair—Professor Robert 
Newstead, M.Sc., F.R.S., gave a lecture entitled ‘‘ Some Observations 
on the Natural History of Nyassaland.’’ The lecture, which dealt 
with the Professor’s own experiences during an expedition undertaken 
to discover the breeding habits of the Glossinidw, was most interesting, 
especially the account of the finding of the first pupa of Glossaua 
morsitans, and of the connection between this fly and sleeping sickness 
and ‘“‘ngana.” <A capital photograph shown on the screen recorded 
