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of the wing at the fourth or fifth sinus. Here we have a 
transition towards Cdipoda gratiosa, Serv, and (. char- 
pentieri, Fieb., in which the band is entirely within the wing 
and never reaches the edge. A specimen of a red @. qratiosa, 
from Ephesus, is shown. 
“In Bryodema tuberculata, Fabr., from Mongolia, a curious 
form of venation is seen, some of the veins being greatly 
thickened in the genus. The species is different in habits 
from the majority of the Orthoptera, being a very high and 
sustained flyer, and ascending in the air until it is almost lost 
to sight. In flying, like certain other insects of this order, it 
produces a continual buzz with a metallic sound, especially 
in the male.” 
Papers. 
Mr. Champion communicated a paper on the Elateride and 
Rhipidoceride collected by Mr. H. H. Smith at St. Vincent, 
Grenada, and the Grenadines, and exhibited the specimens. 
Dr. Forel also communicated a paper on the Formicide 
collected by Mr. Smith in the same islands. 
April 7th, 1897. 
Mr. Rotanp Tren, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Ewhibitions, ete. 
The following Memorandum of an Association for the Pro- 
tection of Insects in danger of extermination, which had been 
drawn up by a Committee appointed for the purpose and 
approved by the Council, was laid before the Society and 
signed generally by those present: ‘‘ We, the undersigned, 
being desirous of protecting from extermination those rare 
and local species of Insects which are not injurious to Agri- 
culture nor to Manufactures, do hereby agree, by our own 
example and by the exercise of our influence over others, to 
discourage the excessive collection and destruction of those 
species of Insects which from their peculiar habits are in 
danger of extermination in the United Kingdom, 
‘We further agree to accept for the purposes of this 
