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October 8rd, 1894. 
The Rt. Honble. Lorp Waustnenam, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 
Vice-President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks 
voted to the respective donors. 
Election of a Fellow, 
Mr. Alick Marshall, of Bexley, Kent, was elected a Fellow 
of the Society. 
Hahibitions, ete. 
Mr. W.F. H. Blandford exhibited specimens of a sand-flea, 
chigoe or nigua, received from Mr. Szigetvary, of the 
Imperial Maritime Customs, China, who had found them in 
the ears of sewer-rats trapped at Ningpo. Mr. Blandford 
stated that the species was allied to, but perhaps not identical 
with, the American species, Sarcopsylla penetrans, L., one of 
the most troublesome pests in Tropical America and the West 
Indies to man and various domestic and wild animals, the 
female burrowing into the skin, usually of the feet, but also 
of any other accessible region. He said that the distribution of 
the chigoe was recorded over Tropical America and the Antilles 
from 380° N. to 30° §., and of late years it had established 
itself in Angola, Loango, and the Congo. Mr. Blandford also 
exhibited a series of Coleoptera from old collections, in a very 
dirty condition, of which half of the specimens had been 
cleaned by the rapid and effective process of immersing them 
in a solution of potassium hydrate. Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. 
McLachlan, Lord Walsingham, Mr. H. Goss, Mr. Champion, 
Mr. J. J. Walker, Mr. Barrett, and others, took part in the 
discussion which ensued. 
Mr. F. C. Adams exhibited a specimen of Mallota eristaloides, 
a species of Diptera new to Britain, taken by himself in 
the New Forest on the 20th July last. He said that the 
species had been identified by Mr. Austen, of the British 
Museum, and that he had presented the specimen to the 
National Collection. Mr. Verrall made some remarks on the 
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