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be noted that the male is figured and the species is called M. 

 velutinus in the description of the plate, and as these figures 

 were communicated by Haliday it would seem to indicate that 

 he recognized effoetus as a synonym of velutinics, Ruth6 ; in 

 1871 Mr. Verrall took a single female at Leigh in Essex, and 

 Theobald in his Monograph of the Culicidx says " there are 

 specimens in the British Museum and Mr. Bignell has also 

 specimens." 



Meinert published in 1883 a paper on a species he called 

 Mochlonyx culiciformis, De G., which appears to be identical 

 with our species, but it is doubtful whether he is correct in 

 reviving De Geer's name, unless the larval characters, described 

 and figured by De Geer, are sufticient to warrant the assump- 

 tion that his insect was a Mochlonyx and not a Corethra. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited an Ophionine ichneumon, with 

 a fungus of some sort attached to the head. Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman suggested that a similar appearance was derived 

 from the pollina of orchids forming a feathery mass on 

 the head, while the President mentioned that the maxillje 

 and palpi of moths covered in the same way with the pollen 

 of flowers also made the insect look as though it was 

 covered with fungus. Mr, Chitty also exhibited Machserites 

 glahratus, Rye, which had been taken by him along with the 

 rare ant Ponera contracta, thus confirming Mr. Newbery's 

 sviggestion that the beetle lives with the ant, 



Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited long series of Angerona 

 prunaria and Lycaena corydon, showing a remarkable range of 

 variation in both species. 



The President exhibited specimens of Paltothyreus tarsatus, 

 Fabr., an ant belonging to the family Poneridse, recently 

 received from Dr. tS. Schonland, Curator of the Albany 

 Museum, Grahamstown. Colonel Bingham had kindly named 

 the specimens and had pointed out that an allied species bears 

 the name Meyaponera fcetens, Fabr., indicating a similar 

 power of emitting an offensive odour. ■ Some of Dr. Schon- 

 land' s specimens, which had come to this country in spirit, 

 had been dried and mounted on cards. These, after the lapse 

 of a few days, still retained a very unpleasant smell. Dr. 

 Schonland had sent the following statement on the subject : — 



