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meeting on behalf of Mr. R. G. Bradley was A. circumdata, 

 Meig., a species recorded before, but not observed for more 

 than fifty years past. 



The President exhibited a Longicorn beetle captured near 

 Malvern, Natal, by Mr. C. N. Barker, together with a 

 large Bracon from the same localit3^ The following exti^act 

 from one of Mr. Barker's letters indicates the close superficial 

 resemblance which exists during movement between tAvo 

 insects which as cabinet specimens appear to bear no marked 

 likeness to each other. " The large yellow and black ichneumon, 

 when on the wing, bears an extraordinary likeness to the 

 Longicorn JVitocris nigricoruis, though no one would suspect 

 a similarity in the cabinet. It is perhaps similarity of flight 

 coupled with coloration that produces the effect, which has 

 more than once deceived me." 



The same resemblance had been observed by Mr. Guy A. K. 

 Marshall, who ])laced the same or closely allied species in his 

 great Lycoid group (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, pi. xviii, 

 figs. 29, 45). 



Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited living larvje and cases of 

 several species of the Lepidopterous genus Coleophora, and 

 contributed the following notes : — 



"(1) C. conyza'. A very local species, but interesting on 

 account of its industry in making cases. In its eai-lier pre- 

 hibernating stage it is a leaf miner, and for its winter 

 accommodation it makes a short, straight, slender, cylindrical 

 case of silk, (?) which becomes almost black before spring. 

 When early spring brings on a recommencement of feeding, 

 the yovmg larva selects a position, often near the tip of a leaf 

 of its food-plant. Inula conyza, affixes its case, mines into the 

 leaf, and after eating out a considerable area, makes a new 

 case from the cuticle of the blotch. This is much too large 

 for the larva, but in a short time, even before the larva grows 

 sufficiently large to fill it, it is abandoned and a still larger 

 one formed. I have not yet ascertained how many cases an 

 individual larva will make, but there ai'e always three if not 

 more. Mr. Sich tells me that a larva will re-enter its case 

 after being expelled. This must of course be by the head 

 end, since the anal end is closed by adpressed valves. The 



