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numbers of these, and placed them in boxes, some at temper- 

 ature 86° Fahr., some at 56° Fahr. The latter took four or 

 five or even more days to pupate. The former (at 86°) had all 

 pupated in 48 hours in each lot so treated. The pupation of 

 a number seemed to be so accelerated that they had not time 

 to make their suspension complete or correctly, and of these 

 not a few did not pupate satisfactorily ; the girth catching 

 them in an awkward place, or the larval skin unsuccessfully 

 passing it, etc. After sixteen days there is no sign of any of 

 these making an autumn emergence, though, of the hundreds 

 of ichneumons — Apanteles glomeratus — a few dozens came out 

 at the end of eight or nine days from capture of larvae ; or 

 eight from escape of ichneumon larvae from caterpillars. 



" The only point of sei'ious interest, so far observed, is 

 that the pupae at 86° are much paler and the black spots 

 smaller than in those at normal temperature. Both lots were 

 in the dark. The only explanation I have to suggest is that 

 those at high temperature were not allowed time to develop 

 pigment, just as they had not time (in all cases) to properly 

 suspend themselves." (See PI. C.) 



New British Hemipteron. — Mr. E. C. Bedwell showed 

 eight examples of Odontoscelis dor sails, Fabr., taken at the 

 roots of Urodium on June 21st last, in the neighbourhood 

 of Lowestoft, Suffolk. This is the first record of the species 

 occurring in Britain. 



Bare British Beetle. — Professor T. Hudson Be are ex- 

 hibited a specimen of Cryptainorpha desjardinsi, Gu6r., taken 

 by Mr. J. Taylor of Sandown, I.W., on a bunch of bananas, 

 on August 30th last. The specimen was kindly presented at 

 the time to the exhibitor and is now in his collection. 



Bare and variant Coleoptbra. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe 

 exhibited examples of Chaetocnema arida, Foudras, a species 

 of Coleoptera new to Britain, taken near Ryde, Aug. 26th, 

 1909 ; and varieties of Cassida nohilis (also exhibited by Mr. 

 J. W. H. Dollman), taken at St. Helens, I.W., in August 

 1909. When alive they had a crimson horse-shoe mark on the 

 elytra, and were found at the roots of Chenopodiicm, the crimson 

 colour being the same as at that of the joitits of the leaves, 

 and the green ground-colour that of the leaves themselves. 



