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how two or three distinct forms of our common white hutterflies (Pieris) 

 were recognised as good, but are now exploded, species, and they were 

 possessed of characters far more important than those now used to dis- 

 tinguish species by certain entomologists. 



Mr. E. A Butler exhibited the egg-sacs of three species of MantidtB 

 from Molepolole, Bechuaiialaud. One species was indicated by egg-cases 

 exactly resembling, thougli rather smaller than, those figured at Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 188y, p. xxxv, and his correspondent had sent them as without 

 doubt belonging to a certain Mantis. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby, on behalf of Herr Buchecker, who was present as a 

 visitor, exhibited three volumes of drawings of Hymenoptera. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited bred specimens of Chauliodus insecurellus, Sta., 

 which he had received through Mous. A. Constant from Gascony, This 

 insect had been first noticed in 1847, and ever since that time the great 

 object had been to discover its food-plant. Till now every larva in the 

 genus Chauliodus had been found solely on UmhelUferd', and hence every 

 likely Umbelhfer had been searched for the larva of C. insecurellus. Four 

 years ago M. Constant had discovered the larva of C. iniquellus feeding on 

 the seeds of Peucedanum, all the larvae previously known feeding on the 

 leaves of UmhelUfera. The larva of C. insecurellus had at last been found, 

 not on one of the UmhelUfercB, but on one of the Santalacece, Thesium 

 divarlcatum. No doubt in this country the larva would be found on 

 T. humifusum, a plant which, according to Brewer's ' Flora of Surrey,' 

 occurred on Banstead Downs, the very locality where the specimens captured 

 in 1817 were found. Unfortunately Thesium humifusum was a somewhat 

 inconspicuous plant, with which few (if any) entomologists were at present 

 acquainted. It would now be their mission to learn to recognise this 

 plant, known in England as " bastard toad-flax," and to find the larva of 

 C. insecurellus upon it. 



Mr. T. R Billups exhibited two females of Uanatra linearis, Linn., 

 captured at Loughton, Essex, on January 16th last, in a locality where 

 there was probably no water within a mile. 



Mr. E. P. Collett did not think the Ranatra was so rare as was generally 

 supposed ; he had captured as many as sixty specimens in one day. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited a box containing the following Ichneumonidae, 

 &c., and Hemiptera, which were all captured at Headley Lane on January 

 3rd, 1885 : — Colpognathus celerator,Gv., Dicailotus pumilu^,Gv., Ichneumon 

 tempestivus,GiV., I.latratur,¥&hx., I. samjuinator, Piossi, Pezoviachus Neesii, 

 Forst. (and varieties), P. insolens, Forst., P. instahilis, Forst., P. analis, 

 Forst., P. geochares, Forst., P. nigricornis, Gr., species of Megaspilus, 

 Thoron, Spiloviicrus, and Prosacantha, Micromelus pyrrhogaster, Nees ; 

 Dasycoris hirtj.cornis, Fabr., Podops inunctus, Fabr., Peritrochus geniculatus, 

 Hahn., and Drymus sylvaticus, Fabr. 



