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Sir Sidney Saunders communicated a paper " On the Habits and Affinities 

 of Sycoj)ha(/a and Ajwcrypta of the Hyraenopterous family AgaonidcB, with 

 description of a new species of Apocrypta from the figs of Ficus Sycomeri of 

 Egypt." 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse communicated " Descriptions of new Telephoridce 

 from Central and South America." 



Mr. W. L. Distant communicated " Descriptions of new Species of 

 Hemiptera-Homoptera." 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 

 Part III. of the ' Transactions' for 1878 was on the table- 



December 4, 1878. 

 H. W. Bates, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors. 



The President read a list of the Members of Council and Officers 

 recommended for election at the Annual Meeting. 



Election of a Member and Subscriber. 



Mr. T. P. Newman, of 7, York Grove, Peckham, was ballotted for and 

 elected a Member. Mr. J. Walker, K.N., of Blue Town, Sheerness, was 

 ballotted for and elected a Subscriber. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton exhibited a series of fine specimens of Glypliipteryx 

 SchcenicoleUa taken by Mr. Threlfall near Witherslack last summer. They 

 were flying over cotton-grass in little swarms just before sunset — literally 

 bv hundreds — and were mistaken at the time for G. Fischeriella. The 

 species was first" recorded by Mr. Thomas Boyd in the ' Entomologists' 

 Weekly Intelligencer," vol. iv., p. 144. 



Mr. Wood-Mason exhibited and made remarks upon a stridulating beetle 

 belonging to the RiitelidcE. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited a male specimen of Epinephele Titlwnns 

 having the right hind-wing much paler than the general ground colour of 

 the other wings ; likewise a variety (gynandromorphic) of E. Jurtina, viz., a 

 male specimen, having the underside of the left hind-wing partly male and 

 partly female in character, the two portions being separated by an orange 

 streak, and presenting the appearance of a male wing with a portion of a 

 female wing let in. An enlarged coloured diagram of the last insect was 

 exhibited, and also similar diagrams of the following specimens ; — 



