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Dr. Sharp exhibited a number of insects forwarded to him 
by Mr. Kidston, of Stirling, collected by Mr. Alexander Carson 
on Kavalla, an island in Lake Tanganyika: they were sent in 
spirit, and unfortunately were much damaged in transit. 
The Coleoptera were nearly all well-known species, exemplify- 
ing the fact that many of the commoner insects of tropical 
Africa have wide distribution there, some of these species 
being common both to Natal and Senegal. The most 
remarkable of the insects received from Mr. Carson was a 
large lepidopterous caterpillar, which Dr. Sharp had given to 
Mr. Poulton ; it was covered with very thick sharp spines, all 
pointed, except the terminal one in the mesial line which was 
furcate. 
Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of Casnonia olivieri, 
Buq., Qdichirus unicolor, Aubé, Paussus favieri, Fairm., 
Colydium elongatun, Fab., Endophleus  spinulosus, Latyr., 
Hetarius arachnoides, Fairm., Pseudotrechus mutilatus, Rosenh., 
Singilis bicolor, Ramb., and Phyllomorpha laciniata, Will., all 
recently collected by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., of H.M. ship 
‘ Grappler,’ at Gibraltar, Tetuan, and Tangier. 
Mr. R. South exhibited a remarkable variety of Polyom- 
matus phiwas, caught by him in North Deyon in 1881. 
_ Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited a living specimen of a species 
of Ocnera taken in London amongst merchandise imported 
from Ispahan. 
Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited four cases containing a large 
number of cocoons of Anthere@a assamensis, A. roylei, Attacus 
ricini, and Actias selene. The first case contained a number 
of dead moths which had emerged on the voyage, paired, and 
laid eggs which had hatched, the young larve being alive on 
the arrival of the case. In the second case only about 
ten moths had emerged, some of which were alive at the 
time of its arrival. In the third case all the moths had 
emerged, and were broken to pieces; some of the ova which 
had been laid had hatched, and the larve were alive on their 
arrival. Mons. Wailly said it was evident that to have any 
chance of obtaining cocoons alive, they must be sent, as 
soon as formed, in small boxes by Sample Post. 
Mons. Wailly also exhibited seven bags, or nests, of the 
