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this species was abundant in the Pyrenees and Southern 

 Carpathicins, and was also found in Greece, it seemed to be 

 so rare in Carinthia that he had never been able to obtain 

 specimens therefrom, and he was not aware that any German 

 entomologist had taken it in the Tyrol or Dolomite Mountains. 

 He added that the species only frequented very steep and 

 stony slopes on the mountains, so that its capture was 

 attended with difficulty. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of an extraordinary 

 Neuropterous larva found by Mr. B. G. Nevinson in tombs at 

 Cairo. He said that this larva had been assigned to the 

 genus Nemoptera by Schaum, who described it as having been 

 found in tombs in Egypt (Berl. Ent. Zeitschrift, vol. i.); and 

 Koux had previously (Ann. Sci. Nat. t. xxviii) described and 

 figured it as an abnormal apterous hexapod under the name 

 of Necrophilus arenarius. Mr. Nevinson supplemented these 

 remarks with an account of his capture of the specimens in 

 the Egyptian tombs, 



Mr. G. T. Baker exhibited a series of forms of species of 

 the genus Boarmia from Madeira; and also a series of melanic 

 varieties of Gracilaria syringeUa from the neighbourhood of 

 Birmingham. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited and remarked on a series 

 of specimens of Dennestes vulpimis, which had been doing much 

 damage to the roofs of certain soap-works in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, where they had no doubt been introduced 

 with bones. 



Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited a specimen of Carabus catenu- 

 latiis, in which the femur of the right foreleg was curiously 

 dilated and toothed. He stated that he took the specimen 

 at Oxshott, Surrey, on the 27th September last. 



The Rev. C. F. Thornewill exhibited an almost black variety 

 of the male of Argynnis aglaia, taken by himself in July last on 

 Cannock Chase ; also a number of living larvse of a species 

 of Eupithecia feeding on the flower-heads of Tanacetum vulgare 

 collected in a limestone quarry in Leicestershire. He expressed 

 some doubt as to the identity of the species, but the general 

 opinion was that the larvffi were only those of Eupithecia 

 nhsynthiatit. 



