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Mr. Goss exhibited hybernating larve of Spilothyrus alcea, 
which had been sent to him by Mr. F. Bromilow from St. 
Maurice, Nice. 
Papers, &c., read. 
Mr. W. F. H. Blandford read a paper entitled ‘‘ The 
Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. Part III. Scolytide.” 
The author said that in this paper he gave the results of his 
examination of the collection of Scolytide formed by Mr. 
George Lewis in Japan, in 1880 and 1881. The Scolytide of 
his earlier collection were worked out by Chapuis and 
Hichhoff, who described 18 species, of which one was 
European. The latter writer, in his monograph on the 
Tomicina, added six species, and the number (together with one 
of Motschulsky’s, not since recognised) amounted to 25 spe- 
cies. In the present paper it was raised to 98. Few were 
recognisable as existing out of Japan. Six were also found 
in Europe; and one or two others hardly differed from 
European forms. Only one Oriental species was recognised, 
but several genera were of an Oriental type, which on the 
whole predominated. The small number of previously de- 
scribed species was due to the meagre accounts which have 
been given of Oriental and North Asiatic forms. The 
best represented genera in Japan were Hylesinus, Scolytus, 
Dryocates, Xyleborus (26 species, excluding male forms), 
and the Platypini. Cryphalus and Tomicus were at present 
poor in species. In conclusion Mr. Blandford said he de- 
sired to warmly acknowledge the admirable way in which 
Mons. G. Severin had facilitated his study of the types 
in the Brussels Museum. The President, Dr. Sharp, Mr. 
Champion, Mr. MacLachlan, and Mr. J. J. Walker took part 
in the discussion which ensued concerning the distribution of 
the group, and the admixture of Palearctic and Oriental 
forms in Japan. 
Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker read a paper entitled ‘‘ Notes on 
some Lepidoptera received from the neighbourhood of Alex- 
andria,’’ and exhibited the specimens. In this paper the list 
of captures was detailed, and about twenty new species or 
varieties were described. Several of Klug’s species from Aden 
found their way up the Red Sea, as might have been expected, 
