Exhibitions . 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. (!. Bayford, 

 a specimen of Galerita bicolor, Dniry, a North American beetle 

 of the family Carabidte, said to have been taken many years 

 ago at Doncaster. He also exhibited a remarkable variety of 

 Vanessa urtiae, L. (ic/musoides, De Selys), which was captured 

 in the Isle of Sheppey on August 28th, 1899. 



Mr. B. A. Bower showed dark aberrations of Boarinia 

 rhomhoidaria, Hb., in which the normal colour of the fore 

 wings is replaced by dark brown, causing the fuscous markings 

 to stand out very prominently. 



The President exhibited a specimen of the " Spanish-fly " — 

 Lytta vesicatoria, which was taken last June near Newmarket. 

 He remai'ked that this handsome beetle was now becoming 

 very rare in England. 



Mr. CoLBRAN J. Wainwright exhibited a number of Dip- 

 terous insects, including a long series of Anthrax paniscus, 

 Rossi, taken in Cornwall at the end of July and beginning of 

 August ; a series of Eumerus ornatus, Mg. , from Hereford- 

 shire, and Eumerus lunulatus, Mg., from Cornwall ; and a 

 specimen of JIallota eristaloides, Loew, taken near Hereford 

 last July. 



Mr. H. J. DoNiSTHORPE exhibited specimens, including both 

 sexes, of Di/tiscus ditnidiattcs, Berg., and I), ctrcumcinctus, Ahr., 

 three females of the latter species belonging to the form with 

 smooth elytra. These rare beetles were taken last August in 

 Wicken Fen, He also showed eight specimens of Athous 

 rhonibeus, Oliv., including one of the black aberration, which 

 were taken last June in the New Forest. 



Prof. T. Hudson Beare exhibited a specimen of Hypera 

 elongata, Payk., taken last July near Edinburgh in a grassy 

 spot under a stone. He referred to Canon Fowler's statement 

 that this species is doubtfully indigenous, and said the previous 

 records certainly are scanty and somewhat untrustworthy; the 

 specimens in the Stephens collection at the British Museum do 

 not belong to the species, and of the two in the Power collection 

 only one is at all like it. Continental authorities give northern 

 localities only for the species, which is therefore probably con- 



