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mesothoracic epimera were entirely exposed. Dr. Sharp also 

 exhibited a small collection of Coleoptera made by Dr. Neville 

 Manders in the Shan States, Upper Burmah ; this collection 

 contained several new interesting forms, the most remarkable 

 being a small heteromerous insect bearing a considerable 

 resemblance to Bhifsodes. Amongst the specimens was an 

 example of Batocera royiei, which he had retained in a relaxed 

 condition, so that the Fellows might have an opportunity of 

 hearing its stridulation : this was produced in a very audible 

 manner by passing the base of the prothorax backwards and 

 forwards over a striated space at the base of the scutellum, 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited, for Mr. Frohawk, a series 

 of wings of British Butterflies, prepared in accordance with a 

 process (described by Mr. Waterhouse in the Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 1887, p. xxiii), by which they were denuded of their scales so 

 as to expose the neuration. 



Dr. P. B. Mason exhibited cocoons of a species of spider, — 

 Theridiun puUcns, Black., — from Cannock Chase, distinguished 

 by the presence of large blunt processes on their surface. 



Mr. H. Goss exliibited, for Mr. N. F. Dobree, a number 

 of scales of Cuccidce, picked off Acacia melanoxylon and 

 Grevillca robusta, imported Australian plants, growing in the 

 Market Square, Natal. These scales had been referred to 

 Mr. J. W. Douglas, from whom the following letter had been 

 received : — 



"8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham, 

 "April 11th, 1889. 

 " Dear Mr. Goss, — I return herewith the scales that you 

 sent to Mr. M'Lachlan, which he forwarded to me. The 

 scales being empty, that is, \vithout the insects that made 

 them, it is difficult to form an idea of what they are, but, as 

 far as I am able to judge, they, i. e., the insects, are Coccida;, 

 fam. Brachyscelida, probably genus Braclnjscelis, Schrader. 

 Several species were described in the ' Trans. (Ent.) Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales,' i. (1863), and also in ' Verhandl. zool.-bot. 

 Gesells. Wien' (1863), with figures. Signoret, in his 'Essai 

 s. 1. Cochenilles' (Ann. Soc. ent. de France, 5 ser., v., p. 591, 

 pi. 10), has given notes of Schrader's insects, and figures of 

 some of them, but not of the scales. I gain my information 



