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Mr. Verrall exhibited a specimen of a fly in amber, belong- 

 ing to a genus allied to Fsychoda. 



Mr. McLachlan alluded to the damage done by insects to 

 orange-trees in Malta, and stated that the Eev. G. Henslow 

 had lately been studying the question ; one of the chief de- 

 predators was the widely spread " fly," Ceratitis citripenla, 

 well known as devastating the orange. He found, however, 

 that another and more serious enemy was the larva of a large 

 Longicorn beetle (Cemmhi/x miles, Bon.), which bores into 

 the lower part of the stem and down into the roots, making 

 large galleries ; in all probability the larva, or that of an 

 allied species, is the true Cossus of the ancients. Lord 

 Walsingham stated that a species of Prajs allied to P. olcellus 

 and our common P. curtisdlus was known to feed in the buds 

 of the orange and the lemon in Southern Europe. Mr. 

 Pascoe, Mr. Champion, and others took part in the discus- 

 sion which followed. 



Canon Fowler, on behalf of Miss Carr, exhibited a port- 

 folio of drawings of Indian Lepidoptera and their food-plants. 



Papers read. 



The Kev. H. S. Gorham communicated a paper entitled 

 " Notes on the species of the families Lijcidts and LampyridcR 

 contained in the Imperial Museum of Calcutta, with descrip- 

 tion of new species, and a list of the species at present 

 described from India." 



Mr. Neville Manders communicated a paper entitled 

 '•A Catalogue of the Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera collected 

 in the Shan States, with notes on the country and climate." 



The latter paper contained a very interesting description 

 of the chief physical features of the Shan States and neigh- 

 bouring parts of Burmah, with special reference to variations 

 of altitude ; an account was also given of the lake-dwellers 

 on the Eutay lake, who built their houses on piles far out 

 into the water, after the manner of the Swiss lake-dwelhngs. 



A great deal of the collecting referred to in the paper was 

 done while Mr. Manders was on active service ; otherwise, as 

 he observes, the list might have been largely extended, " as 

 Entomology, during active service, can only be indulged in 

 at odd moments." 



