XXVll 



Election of a Foreign Member. 

 Miss Emily A. Smith, Assistant State Entomologist of Illinois, of 

 Peoria, Illinois, was ballotted for and elected a Foreign Member. 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited a male Odonestis jJotatoria having two- 

 thirds of the upper wings of the yellow colour of the female, and a female 

 of the same species of the usual dull red colour of the male ; also a male 

 Smerinthiis popuU, having the wings almost without markings, and of the 

 light colour generally found in the female, the right antenna being clubbed 

 at the extremity, and not pointed as usual. 



Sir Sidney Saunders exhibited six winged examples of the Stylopideous 

 genus Hylechthrus, five having been obtained from the specimens of 

 Prosojns rubicola exhibited alive at the last meeting, one of the latter 

 having produced two of the former. Four adult larvae of males were found 

 in another of the same bees which became arrested in its development in 

 the pupal stage. He also exhibited several of these bees having females of 

 Hylechthrus in situ, and the puparium of a male extracted entire with the 

 imago enclosed therein ; also various Hyraenoptera obtained from the same 

 briars, among which were specimens of the Chalcidideous genus Melittobia, 

 and a new species of Sclerodenna. 



Scleroderma ephippium. 



Capite pedibusque nigro-piceis, genubus tarsisque pallidis ; thorace 

 flavo, mesothorace antice lateribusque fuscis ; abdomine nigro- 

 piceo ; facie, mandibulis, et antenuis flavis. 



Long. Corp. 3 — d^ mill. 



Four other species of Scleroderma from Greece are recorded in Professor 

 Westwood's monograph of this genus pubhshed in the second volume of 

 our ' Transactions,' 1837 — 1840. This species is also met with in Corfu in 

 the dry snags of fig-trees during winter. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited some galls found on Tanacetum vulgare, 

 and stated that Mr. Fitch had obtained some of a similar kind last year 

 near Maldon, Essex ; but the present specimens were peculiar from the 

 gall-growths being not only in the axils of the leaves, but also on the midribs 

 and pinnae and on the inflorescence. The galls on the leaves are smaller than 

 the others and solitary ; those into which the axillary growth of shoots has 

 merged itself are for the most part confluent, forming bunches of as many 

 as seven solid bell-shaped galls grown together at the sides, or sometimes 

 completely surrounding the main stem. In the inflorescence also as many 

 as six or seven galls may be found on the receptacle of the composite flower, 



