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Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Walter F. Blandford exhibited a specimen of Cardio- 

 phorus cinereus, Herbst, taken at Tenby, and remarked that 

 the species had rarely, if ever, previously been found in the 

 United Kingdom. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse said he believed 

 that there was a specimen in the collection of his late father, 

 and also another specimen in the collection of the British 

 Museum. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated that the British Museum had 

 just received, from the Eev. Arthur Elwin, of Hangchow, 

 China, a luminous larva. It was about 1^ in. long and 3^ lines 

 bi'oad at the widest part, a little narrowed in front, gradually 

 acuminate to the apex, very convex, shining, with some very 

 short inconspicuous pale pubescence ; pale brownish yellow 

 (when dead), with pale yellow markings. Its appearance at 

 first sight was that of a meal-worm {Tenehrio). Mr. Elwin 

 stated that when fviU-grown it was 2 in. long. In ten years he 

 had only seen four specimens. Eleven segments have each 

 three very bright spots of light, one dorsal and one on each 

 side ; in all thirty-three spots. The light was not affected by 

 handling, and shined continually day and night, and was so 

 bright that it was visible for a considerable distance. The 

 specimen sent showed the light for three days after death. 

 Mr. Waterhouse said that, although quite unlike anything 

 known to him, he had no doubt, from the structure of the 

 head, &c., that it was one of the LampyridcB, but he knew of no 

 species of which it was likely to be the larva. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited specimens of Conchylis 

 degreyana, M'Lach., bred from seed-heads of Plantogo lanceo- 

 lata at Merton, Norfolk ; also a specimen of a species of Tineidcs 

 allied to the genus Solenubia, probably belonging to Dissoctena, 

 Stand., but differing somewhat in the structure of the antennae. 

 Lord Walsingham remarked that the specimen was taken by 

 himself at Merton on the 31st July last, and that the species 

 was apparently undescribed. 



Mr. Meyer-Darcis exhibited a collection of Coleoptera, 

 comprising specimens of a species of Loethnis from Turkestan ; 

 Julodis f/lobitJiorax, Stev.,from the Caucasus; anew species of 

 Julodis from Kurdistan : Cardiaspis Movhotii, Saunders, from 



