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names referring to the extraordinary size of the insect in the genus Tinea. 

 The specimens now exhibited were reared by Mr. Simmons, of Poplar, who 

 found them in his greenhouse, and was quite at a loss to account for their 

 appearance till Mr. Stainton suggested they were horn-feeders, when he 

 remembered a piece of horn placed on a shelf and forgotten, but which 

 when examined showed evident traces of having been eaten, and from 

 which pupa-skins had been obtained. 



The Rev. H S. Gorham exhibited the following rare beetles, taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Horsham, Sussex: — Plati/pus cylindrus, Fab., 

 Lathrobium 2^allid urn, 'i^iovdma.nu, Achenium humile, Nicolai, and Cryphalus 

 abietis, Ratzeburg. [Coloured figures of the three first named will be found 

 in Janson's ' British Beetles,' figs. 99, US, 113.] 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited male and female specimens of a rare dragon-fly, 

 Cordulia Curtisi, taken at Popesdown, Christchurch, Hampshire. Mr. 

 M'Lachlan made some remarks on the geographical distribution of this 

 species. (See also Ent. Mo. Mag. for Sept. 1878, p. 92.) 



Mr. Meldola exhibited a male specimen of a moth from Jamaica, 

 belonging to the genus Erebus, and which was remarkable on account of 

 its possessing large scent-fans or tufts on the hind legs. Although the 

 function of these tufts had only recently been made known through the 

 researches of Fritz Miiller, this species had been named E. odorus {PhalxBna- 

 Bombyx odora) by Linnaeus. (See also Sloan's 'Jamaica,' vol.ii., p. 216). 



Mr. J. Wood-Mason exhibited specimens in alcohol of Gongylus trachelu- 

 phyllus, Burm. (male and female), and of G. gongylodes, Linn. Saussure 

 was of opinion that the former species was a variety of the latter, but 

 Mr. Wood-Mason, after examining numerous specimens of both, had found 

 good characteristic difi"erences, and concluded that they were specifically 

 distinct — a view which was corroborated by the difference in the colour of 

 the under side of the prothoracic expansion, a distinction which he had 

 loncf suspected, but of which he had only recently obtained good evidence. 

 Knowing that Sir Walter Elliot, during his long residence in Lidia, had 

 superintended the execution, by native artists, of a multitude of coloured 

 drawings of animals belonging to all groups, and thinking it probable that 

 there might be amongst these some coloured sketches of Gongylus, he 

 applied to him for the loan of any drawings of Orthoptera he might still 

 have in his possession, a request to which Sir Walter Elliot, with his usual 

 generosity, at once acceded. Amongst these Mr. Wood-Mason had found 

 a coloured drawing of the under surface of Gongylus gongylodes, which 

 conclusively proved that the insect is coloured so as to resemble a flower 

 with a U'JLlte corolla, thus differing remarkably from the other species, in 

 which the prothoracic shield is of a pale bluish violet inclining to mauve, 

 and acquiring a reddish tinge towards the margins. Both species have the 

 same black-brown transverse prosternal blotch. G. gongylodes was restricted 



