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Mr. Dunning referred to the death of Henry Milne-Edwards, who had 

 been an Honorary Member of the Society since 1813. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a female specimen of Inostemma Boscii, 

 Jur., taken on a sunflower-leaf at Peckham on August 3rd last. Also the 

 egg-case of a Mantis, very slug-like in appearance, whicli was attached to a 

 leaf of Virginian tobacco ; and specimens of the following four species of 

 Chrysidida;, which he had reared from the burrows of Ody)ienis spinipes, L., 

 viz. : — Chrysis ignita, L., C. fulgida, L., C. hidentata, L., and the rare 

 C. neglecta, Shuck. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch called attention to the figure of the curious I. Boscii 

 in Curtis' ' British Entomology ' (pi. 309), and Vollenhoven's ' Pinaco- 

 graphia' (pi. 45). 



Dr. E. Caprou exhibited a specimen of Phytodicetus rujipictus, Brischke, 

 an Ichneumon new to Britain, which he had captured at Shore last month. 



Mr. H. H. Winston, who was present as a visitor, exhibited a variety of 

 Arctia caja, L., bred from a larva taken at Harrow. 



Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited the following interesting British Coleoptera 

 taken by him at Tonbridge during the present year: — 



Throscus carinifrons, Bonv. — Forty specimens taken on one occasion by 

 beating May-blossoms, and twenty others by evening sweej)ing at different 

 times. The late Mr. Wollaston found a single specimen on palings in 

 Tonbridge. 



Ahdera 4-fasciata, Curt. — Forty specimens taken at different times on 

 the trunk of a single half-decayed horse-chestnut, whilst feeding on a 

 small fungoid growth, or running up and down the trunk in search of 

 it, in bright sunshine. It was accompanied by Cis pygmaus at the same 

 fungus. 



Anthribus alhinus, L. — One by beating faggots. When tucking in its 

 legs and antennae and lying quiet it much resembled one of the loose buds 

 from a birch faggot. 



EjrurcBa diffusa, Bris. — Two under bark of a (7ossi<s-infected oak, 

 unaccompanied apparently by E. decemguttaUt . It seems to me quite a 

 distinct species. 



Colon Zehei, Kr. — Two males. 



Thalycra sericea, Sturm. — Four by evening sweeping under trees. I 

 fancy they drop to the ground if alarmed by noise, judging from their 

 beliaviour in the net. 



Antherophagus pallens, 01. — A remarkably dark variety. 



Xyletinus ater, Pz. — One at rest on an old pollard willow. 



Mi-croglossa pulla, Gyll. — Twenty-two from carrion. 



Aleochara lygcea, Kr. — Three. One named by M. Fauvel, and taken 

 by sweeping; a second " in stercore"; and a third in carrion. They were 

 all taken in the same wood during the last three years. 



