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specimens of ^schna isosceles and Libelhda fulva from 

 ISTorfolk Broads, taken in June last, and Orthetrum cxrulescens 

 from Chagford, taken in July. 



Parasites on Flies. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a spike of the 

 grass Alolinia ceerulea with dead Syrphids, Melanostoma scalare, 

 Fabr., attacked by the parasitic fungus JEmpusa muscas, found 

 on Esher Common, October 3rd, 1908. Most were attached 

 by the point of the head only in a very peculiar manner, 

 and apparently all were females. 



Cryptamorpha desjardinsi in Hampshire. — Mr. 0. E. 

 Janson exhibited a specimen of Cryptamorpha desjardinsi, 

 Guer., found by Mr. F. C. Selous running on a table-cloth in 

 his house at Barton-on-Sea, Hants, on June 26th. This beetle 

 is recorded as living in banana plants in Mauritius and 

 Madeira, and may have been introduced here in the banana 

 fruit. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe said that Mr. Bagnall had found 

 this species in the cellar of his house at Winlaton-on-Tyne. 

 Commander J. J. Walker reported having taken it in the 

 sheathing leaves of a banana in Kawau Island, New Zealand, 

 and Mr. G. C. Champion remarked that it was probably 

 imported among the dry leaves of the banana, not in the 

 fruit, as he had found various species of the allied genus 

 Teleplianus in the pendent leaves of Musaceous plants in 

 Central America. 



Rare British Coleoptera and Hbmiptera. — Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, on behalf of Mr. W. West, who was present as a 

 visitor, exhibited specimens of the following insects : Aleochara 

 crassiuscida, Sahib., taken at Gt. Yarmouth in May 1908 ; 

 varieties of Donacia dentipes and Z). simplex, from Caistor 

 Marshes ; Nabis hoops, Schiodte, taken at Esher, in August 

 1908 ; and Idiocerus scurra, Germ., taken at Blackheath, 

 Kent, in September 1908. 



Rare and Variant British Heterocbra. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman brought for exhibition specimens of (a) Crymodes 

 exulis from the Shetlands, including one female. The $ of 

 this species is very rare, and until this season (when some 

 six or seven were taken) only a very few were known. One § 

 exhibited was of the rich dark brown form while the rest were 



