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himself, on September 9th. (6) Trechus rividaris, Gyll., 

 specimens taken September 15th and 16th, 1909, at Wicken 

 Fen ; also (c) the Dipteron Meigenia floralis, Fall, (with its 

 host Phytodecta jJalUda), bred from larvae taken at Chilworth 

 in July last, with the pupa-case in larva-skin of the beetle ; 

 and the following Braconidae — {d) Euphorus histiginaticv,s, 

 Morley, n. sp., $ type bred from Formica rufa nest from 

 Wey bridge, 15th June, 1909, $ $ taken hovering over ants 

 on F. rufa nests at Weybridge, July 7th, and Beauly Forest, 

 Jiily 21st, all of this year, (e) Spilomtna falconivihrans, 

 Morley, n. g. et sp., $ and 5 bred from F. fusca nest from 

 Porlock, July 29th, 1907 ; and Pachylovima huccata $ taken 

 at St. Helens, Isle of Wight, hovering over a nest of the ant 

 Lasitts niger. 



ASCALAPHTJS COCCAJUS FROM GeNEVA. Mr. \V. J. LuCAS 



showed a male and a female example of Ascalaphus coccajus, 

 and a pair of the same insect near the var. leucocilhis with 

 the golden yellow markings replaced by white. They were 

 taken by the Rev. F. D. Morice, with other specimens, in June 

 of this year at Geneva. 



North American Chrysophanids. — Mr. G. Bethune-Baker 

 showed a series of Chrysophanus dorcas, which occurs in North 

 America from Labrador, and Alaska down to IMichigan in 

 marshy localities, and pointed out the peculiar characteristic 

 of the egg, which was more Thecloid than Chrysophanid. He 

 also exhibited a finely radiated example of Chrysophanus 

 hypophlaeas ; also a North American species. 



Breeding experiment with Charaxes. — Mr. G. F. Leigh 

 exhibited the $ parent and 21 specimens of the offspring of 

 Charaxes zoolina neanthes. This result was obtained from 

 ova deposited by the zoolina form of the $ , and produced 4 

 $$& and 2 5 $s like the parent, and 15 S Ss, and 9 $ ^s of 

 the 7ieanthes form. Last year the same result was obtained 

 in a smaller degree, bvit the eggs on that occasion were ob- 

 tained from the neanthes form of the ?. All the specimens 

 exhibited, the breeding of which was undertaken at the 

 special request of Professor E. B. Poulton, will be placed with 

 those shown last year in tlie Hope Department, University 

 Museum, Oxford. The proving by breeding from ova that 



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