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as beiug ovo-viviparous. Dr. Miiller stated that the insect had flown on to 

 his table last September; he then put it under his microscope with the 

 object of studying the neuration, when to his surprise he found it in the 

 act of depositing living larvae, specimens of which had been forwarded in a 

 tube of alcohol, and were exhibited at the meeting. Mr. Meldola stated 

 that in 1863 a similar habit had been observed in an Australian species, 

 Tinea viviimra, Scott, and had been brought under the notice of the Society 

 by Mr. Stainton (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1863, p. 152). 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited specimens of the rare Cryptophagus 

 validus, Krtz. (or possibly C.fatnatus, Msh.), which he had recently captured 

 in some numbers (three or four specimens each night) on the beer-casks in 

 his cellar. He believed they were imported with the beer from Leatherhead, 

 as he had observed some minute coleopterous larvae, doubtless those of the 

 Cryptoiihagus, feeding on a minute blue fungus on the casks. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited numerous living specimens of Nqytus 

 liololeucus, Fald., which were ibund swarming in a plate-closet in Scotland, 

 and were said to be very destructive to the silver contained therein. 



Sir Sidney S. Saunders exhibited specimens, many microscopically 

 prepared, of Kradibia Coivani, from Madagascar, and made some remarks 

 thereon, especially referring to the middle pair of legs being obsolete in the 

 males (some fifteen or twenty specimens had been examined by Mr. Water- 

 house and himself). 



Sir Sidney Saunders also communicated the sub!:<tance of a corres- 

 pondence with M. Edmond Andre, of Beaune, respecting, firstly, the 

 svnonymy of Euchalcls vetusta of Dufour, and Halticella osmicida, whereby 

 M. Andre fully recognises that the former must be considered as a distinct 

 species from the latter, " et que ces deux denominations s'appliqueut a deux 

 especes differentes, bien.qu'il semble etonnant que I'espece de Dufour 

 n'ait pas encore ete retrouvee depuis 1815"; and, secondly, respecting the 

 terminal segments " des Chalcides a queue", stating that his imperfect 

 knowledge of the English language had not enabled him fully to compre- 

 hend the comments contained in Sir Sidney Saunders' memoir thereon, 

 which recently appeared in our Transactions (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. J 882, 

 p. 29J); but that he had revised what he had written upon the subject in 

 the French ' Annales'; had re-perused Dr. Sichel's monograph of 1865 ; had 

 also compared Prof. Westwood's figure of Chalets pyramidea, Fab., as well 

 as specimens of the respective genera ; and that his opinion thereon " est 

 restee toujours la meme"; while entering into details with reference to an 

 annotated sketch corresponding with the aforesaid figure (the terminal 

 segments of which had been obviously misinterpreted by him), and 

 requesting that any divergences might be pointed out ; adding, " Je ne 

 cherche, comme vous, que I'interet de la science, et je suis toujours tout 

 pret a reconnaitre mes erreurs quand elles me sont demontrees." 



