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4. March 31, 1884.— Extract from the Comptes Rendus of the French 

 Academy of Science, containing a description of Dictyoneura Goldenbergi, a 

 gigantic species referred by M. Brongniart to an extinct order, for which 

 he proposed the name of Neurorthoptere, but which order Golden berg had 

 already named Falceodictyoptera. Reference was also made in this paper 

 to the species mentioned in the next paper [D. Monyi}. 



5. Dec. 10, 1884.— Extract from the Bull. Soc. Ent. of France. This 

 paper contains a description of another gigantic species (Dictyoneura 

 Monyi), belonging to the same order and genus as the last-named fossil 

 (Dictyoneura Goldenbergi), and measuring, when the wings were expanded 

 in flying, about 70 centimetres. The paper also contains general remarks 

 on the Insecta of the (Carboniferous Period, and reference is made to the 

 discovery, by Prof. Linstrom, of a scorpion in the Silurian of the Isle of 

 Gotland, in Sweden. 



6. Dec. 24, 1884.— Extract from the Bull. Ent. Soc. France. In this 

 paper attention is called to the discovery of the fossil wing of a cockroach 

 in the Silurian Sandstone of Jurques, Calvados, France. The wing 

 represented tlie most ancient-known insect, and was named Palceohlattina 

 Douvillel. 



7. Dec. 29, 1884.— Extract from the Comptes Rendus of the French 

 Academy, containing another descriptton of Falceohlattina Douvillel, the 

 Silurian Cockroach. 



8. Jan. 14, 1885. — Extract from the Bull. Ent. Soc. France. Attention 

 is called to a neuropterous insect, believed by M. Brongniart to have been 

 amphibious, like Pteronarcys regalis, but differing in neuration from this 

 species, and approaching Corydalls and Chaullodes. M. Brongniart pro- 

 posed to name this species Corydaloldes Scudderl. 



Mr. M'Lachlan and Mr. Waterhouse made some remarks thereon, 

 especially referring to the relationship between the groups of Hemiptera, 

 Neuroptera, and Orthoptera. 



Paper read. 

 Mr. F. E nock read the first part of a "Life-history of Atypiis piceus, 

 Sulz." 



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Part I. of the ' Transactions' for 1885 was on the table. 



