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Election of a Fellojv. 



Mr. Richard S. Standen, of Framingham Earl Hall, Nor- 

 wich, was elected a Fellow. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas sent for exhibition specimens of Antho- 

 coris visci, Dougl., a new species, taken from mistletoe, at 

 Hereford, in the end of September last, by Dr. T. A. Chap- 

 man ; also specimens of Psylla visci, Curtis, taken by Dr. 

 Chapman from mistletoe, at the same time and place. 



Mr. R. M'Laclilan exhibited coloured drawings of a specimen 

 of ZygcBnaJilipendul(B, in which the left posterior leg is replaced 

 by a fully-developed wing, similar to an ordinary hind wing, 

 and with the neuration almost precisely the same, but less 

 densely clothed with scales. The specimen was described by 

 Mr. N. M. Richardson in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for June, 1889, 

 and the drawing was executed by Mrs. Richardson. Mr. 

 M'Laclilan also exhibited a female specimen of the common 

 earwig, Forficula auriculana, with a parasitic Gordius emerging 

 from between the metathorax and abdomen. He said that the 

 specimen had been placed in his hands by Mr. A. B. Farn, by 

 whom it was taken, and that other instances of similar para- 

 sitism by Gordius on earwigs had been recorded. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a gynandromorphous specimen 

 of LyccBna icarus, having the characters of a male in the right 

 wings and the characters of a female in the left wings, caught 

 by Mr. T. Brown at Keyingham, Yorkshire, on the 22nd of 

 June last ; also a specimen of a variety of Crahro interniptus, 

 De Gear, found by Mr. F. Woodbridge in a hole in a log at 

 Uxbridge. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited a male and female specimen 

 of a species belonging to a new genus of IHscocephalincB, from 

 Guatemala, in which the sexes were totally dissimilar, the 

 female having abbreviated membranes, and being altogether 

 larger than the male. 



Dr. D. Sharp stated that he had observed that in the Tpsinm 

 division of Nitidulida there was present a stridulating organ 

 in a position in which he had not noticed it in any other 



