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Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, on behalf of Lord Walsitigham, exhibited the 

 horns of an antelope, received from Colonel J. H. Bowker, of D'Urban, 

 Natal, which had been almost completely destroyed by the ravages of the 

 larvse of Tinea vastella, Zell. The prominent pupa-cases were so thickly 

 packed on the surface of the horns as to remind one of a larded capon or a 

 filet de veau pique. 



Mr. A. S. Olliff exhibited specimens of Syncldta juglandls, Fabr., taken 

 at Tonbridge by Mr. A. C. Horner and himself, in August last, under the 

 the bark of two beech-trees. 



Paper read. 



Sir Sidney S. Saunders read the descriptions of three new genera and 

 species of fig insects, allied to Blastopharja, from Calcutta, Australia, and 

 Madagascar. The species were characterized under the names of Eupristiiia 

 Masoni, from the figs of Ficus indica, received from Mr. J. Wood-Mason 

 from the Botanical Gardens at Calcutta ; Pleistodontes imperialis, obtained 

 from Ficus macroplujlla in New South Wales ; and Kradihia Cowani, from 

 Madagascar ; all three in both sexes. 



Neiv Part of ' Transactions.' 

 Part III. of the ' Transactions' for 1882 was on the table. 



October 4. 1882. 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



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

 respective donors. 



Election of Members. 



Mr. Francis Swanzy (Stanley House, Granville Road, Sevenoaks) and 

 Herr Gustav Weymer (58, Kleeblattstrasse, Elberfeld, Rhenish Prussia) 

 were balloted for and elected Members of the Society. 



Exhihitions, d'C. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited nymph-skins of Hagenius hrevistijlus, Selys 

 (a dragoudy belonging to the subfamily Goinphina), remarkable for their 

 extraordinarily broad and depressed form, and in this respect presenting a 

 striking contrast with the imago, the body of which is very long and 

 slender. They were from Texas, and formed part of a collection made by 

 the late Jacob Boll. A description and admirable figure is to be found in 

 Cabot's " The immature state of the Odoiiata," subfamily Gomphina, p. 9, 

 pi. iii., fig. 4 (1872). 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse said that the beetles exhibited at the August 

 meeting, and stated to be injurious to beer-casks at Rangoon, were not 



