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down by Fritz Miiller, and therefore not affecting the question 

 of distastefulness. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a series of the perfect insect of 

 Glottida fusca, Hpsn., together with ears of maize (locally 

 called mealies), showing the damage done by the well-grown 

 larva of the species, which lives in the first place in the stem, 

 eating the pith from the ground, and afterwards attacking the 

 cobs, and eating from the inside into the bases of the unripe 

 graixis which then change colour and shrivel up. He also 

 exhibited: Gynauiza maia, S, Walk., and a drawing of the 

 larva ; Nudaurelia menippe, S , Feld. , and drawing of the lar^"a ; 

 Bomhjcomorpha bi fascia, Hpsn., circlet of eggs, cocoons and 

 figure of the larva; Phissanajlava, Feld., food, cocoon and figure 

 of the larva; Gonometa jyostica, S and $ , Walk., cocoon (poison- 

 ous), and S and $ figures of the larva; Henucha smihi.v, ^ and $ , 

 Feld., pupa, cocoon, figures of the larva, and an enlarged segment 

 to show mai'kings ; Jletarctia ricfesceois, Walk., and figure of 

 the larva; Txuiojtyga sylvana, Walk., and figures of the larva ; 

 Rigema ornata, Walk., and figures of the larva — all the fore- 

 going specimens and figures being received from Miss Frances 

 Barrett, Buntingville, Transkei, South Africa. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited two specimens of Coleoptera 

 which he had received alive from the Transvaal — one Anthia 

 thoracica, Thunb., which had since died, the other Brac/iyceriis 

 yranosus, GylL, still living. These insects had been sent him 

 by Mr. Robert Service, of Dumfries, on the 9th December last, 

 who wrote: " I received a small packet of 'odds and ends' from 

 my friend Sergt. Peter Dunn, of the volunteer company of 

 the Scottish Borderers, which regiment was in the vicinity of 

 Krugersdorp with lord JMethuen when Dunn wrote. Several 

 of the beetles showed signs of life, so I took them into the 

 greenhouse, bathed them in the hot-water tank, and then put 

 them in a suitable case. Three of them came round nicely, 

 and were soon as li\'ely as possible ; one escaped, the other two 

 I now send you. The Anthia is inordinately fond of small 

 earth-worms, the other I have not seen eat anything, but it 

 may have fed on some of the green things supplied. The 

 night that these prisoners of war tx'avelled from Scotland to 

 my home was a frosty one, and the Anthia never recovered 



