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Oxypoda exoleta, Er. — One by sweeping. 



Homalota sj^lendens, Kr. — A single specimen taken by sweeping grass 

 outside an osier-bed adjoining a hop-garden. Its bright colouring, narrow 

 frame, wiry texture, and broadly-jointed antennae, make it appear very 

 unlike a Homalota. 



Homalota humeralis, Kr. — Four in a small fungoid growth on the 

 stump of a (fir ?) tree, in company with Cis boleti, in a park near Winchester, 

 last year. The 7th abdominal dorsal segment of the male has eight to ten 

 rather feeble crenulations at its apical margin, the outer one on each side 

 being rather more developed than the others ; and its edge is rather 

 rounded than hollowed out. The ventral plate of the same segment projects 

 somewhat, and is much more pointed than in the female. 



Mr. G. Coverdale exhibited stems of Onohrychis sativa, showing the 

 manner in which the larva of Grapholitha Gcccana, Schl., feeds. 



Papers read. 



Mr. J. S. Baly communicated a memoir " On the Colombian species of 

 Diabrotica." 



Mr. E. Meyrick communicated the completion of his paper " On the 

 classification of the Australian Pyralidina " ; also a paper " On the classi- 

 fication of the Pterophorid<z." 



New Part of 'Transactions.' 

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



September 2, 1885. 



R. M'Lachlan, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



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

 respective donors. 



The President said : — 



" Those of our Fellows now present who were not present at the last 

 meeting (August 5th), will have learned from the Minutes of Proceedings 

 at that meeting, just read and confirmed, that Her Majesty in Council has 

 been pleased to grant a Royal Charter of Incorporation to this Society. 

 The negotiations concerning the acquisition of a Charter had been long in 

 progress; latterly the Council became aware that their efforts were likely 

 to be crowned with success, but the time when any definite answer 

 miglil be obtained frt)ni the Privy Council Office lemuiiied uncertain. 



