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‘‘Blumenau, Santa Catharina, Brazil, 
8th March, 1898. 
Dear Sir, 
Only a few days ago did I become aware that at the 
meeting of the Entomological Society, held on October 1st, 
1890, Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a remarkable small larva- 
like creature, concerning which the Society expressed no 
definite opinion, and which you and Lord Walsingham thought 
might be allied to the Myriapods. 
I have found here for many years an entirely similar 
animal, and have discovered that it is the larva of a dipterous 
insect, viz., Paltostoma torrentium. 
I have described the larva, pupa, and imago, together with 
the anatomy of the larva, in the ‘ Archivos do Museo Nacional 
do Rio de Janeiro,’ 1881, vol. iv., pp. 57-85, and four plates 
accompany the description. 
The imago is especially remarkable, inasmuch as the female 
occurs in two forms, one of which is honey-sucking and the 
other blood-sucking (ef. ‘ Kosmos,’ 1880, vol. viii., p. 37). 
I take the opportunity of sending, with this letter, some 
larve and pupe found yesterday, which may be useful to you, 
and which I ask you to exhibit at a meeting of the Society. 
Yours faithfully, 
Fritz Mu.urr.”’ 
R. McLachlan, Esq., F.R.S. 
Mr. Gahan, Mr. Jenner Weir, Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. 
Blandford, Mr. Verrall, Mr. Slater, and Mr. Jacoby, took 
part in the discussion which ensued (¢/. Proc. Ent. Soc., 1891, 
p: Ti.). 
Mr. 8S. G. C. Russell exhibited Hesperia alveolus, variety 
Taras, taken by him at Woking in April last. 
Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a long series of Moma orion, 
Eurymene dolobraria, Amphidasis betularia, and Chloephora 
prasinana, and a few specimens of Notodonta dodonea, N. 
chaonia, and N. trepida, Acronycta alni, and Selenia illustraria, 
all bred by him in March and April last, from larve obtained 
in the autumn of 1892 in the New Forest. 
Mr. H. Goss read a copy of the following letter from the 
Governor of the Gold Coast to the Marquess of Ripon at the 
