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were black; two with the cream-coloured spots united in 
varying degrees; two with the hindwings much suffused 
with black; two with wings differently spotted on the 
opposite sides; and one with the hindwings nearly spotless 
but bordered with black. 
Mr. Gervase IF’. Matthew exhibited seven beautiful and 
striking varieties of Arctia villica, bred from larve obtained 
on the Essex coast, near Dovercourt, in March and April, 
1893 and 1894. 
Herr Jacoby exhibited two specimens of Blaps mucro- 
nata, with elytra which had not hardened although exposed 
to the air for a long time, taken on a wall at Hampstead. 
The Rey. Canon Fowler and Mr. G. C. Champion made some 
remarks on the subject of the elytra of immature beetles. 
Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of Periplaneta austral- 
asie, received from Mr, C. E. Morris, of Preston, near 
Brighton. Mr. McLachlan said the species had been intro- 
duced into this country, but was now considered a British 
insect. 
Mr. B. G. Rye exhibited specimens of the following rare 
or local species of Coleoptera :—Cicindela germanica, from 
Swanage; Humicrus rufus, from Shirley ; Triarthron markelt, 
from Lewisham; Mezium affine, from Shoe Lane, H.C.; 
Homaloplia ruricola and Anomala frischi, var. julii, from 
Swanage; Synaptus filiformis, from Sunbury; Livxus para- 
plecticus, from Wicken Fen; Balaninus cerasorum, from 
Wimbledon; Asemum striatum, from the New Forest; and 
Zeugophora flavicollis, from Wimbledon. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited for Mr. G. C. Bignell, of 
Plymouth, two new species of Ichneumonide, from Devon- 
shire, viz., Pimpla bridgmani, Bign., a parasite on a spider, 
Drassus lapidicolens, Walck., and Praon absinthii, Bign., a 
parasite on Siphonophora absinthii, Linné; together with 
Pimpla epeire, Bign., also a parasite on a spider. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse stated that the Acridium received 
by Mr. Goss from Capt. Montgomery, and exhibited at the 
last Meeting, was Acridium septemfasciatum, and he 
exhibited the species with the wings extended. 
Mr. Ridley exhibited a species of a scale insect (? Lecantwm) 
