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Mr. Stainton remarked that the two last-named species 

 (Asthenia pygmceana and A. abiegana) both had white under- 

 wings, and were in other respects very similar. It was 

 formerly thought that Haworth's subsequana was identical 

 with the species previously figured by Hiibner as pygmaana : 

 but now that the two allied species were critically examined 

 it appeared that the species described by Haworth as sub- 

 sequana was not Hiibner's pygmceana, but another species 

 known as the abiegana of Duponchel, dating only from 1842, 

 so that Haworth's name subsequana had priority by thirty 

 years. 



Mr. F. Pascoe exhibited a living specimen of J'iaxines 

 Taylori (Wath.), taken out of the stem of an orchid — Sacco- 

 labium caleste — growing in an orchid-house at Croydon, and 

 received from Moulmein, in Burmah. 



Mr. Pascoe stated, with reference to his paper on Brachy- 

 cerus in the April number of the Transactions, that M. Auri- 

 villius had informed him, but with a mark of doubt, that B. 

 suturalis is II. Eckloni, Gyll., and B, precursor is B. ublonyus, 

 Fahr. ; and that B. albicollis is probably a variety of B. 

 lividicollis, Fahr. As the two names last mentioned depend 

 on colour, Mr. Pascoe said it would perhaps be convenient 

 to preserve the former one. B. obtusus is, according to M. 

 Aurivillius, allied to, if not identical with, />'. globiferus, 

 Thunb., but, judging from a full description of B. bullatus, 

 given by Gyllenhall, which was subsequently referred to 

 Thunberg's species, the two are quite different. Mr. Pascoe 

 further said that he should be much obliged to any persons 

 who recognise any of his figures as belonging to described 

 species, if they would kindly let him know. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited nearly 200 specimens of Neu- 

 roptera, in beautiful condition, collected by Mr. E. Meyrick 

 in various parts of Australia and Tasmania, comprising about 

 seventy species. There were between forty and fifty species 

 of Trichoptera, including moth-like forms from Western 

 Australia, allied to Plectrotarsus, Kol. ; and other species 

 belonging to a group represented by Hydropsyche Edwardsii 

 (M'Laeh.). Among the Planipennia the most remarkable 

 insect was a new species of the singular genus Psychopsis 



