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and asked whether they might not have swallowed 'le eggs 

 in this way. Mr. Green said that this species of Gordius 

 seemed to dislike water, when he had experimented with 

 them. Mr. H. J. Turner mentioned a case in which a Gordius 

 worm had emerged from the body of an Erehia (he thought 

 E. ligea), and asked whether the egg might not possibly be 

 eaten by the larva, when deposited in dew on grass. Prof. 

 PouLTON said that the probable solution was that the eggs 

 were laid in moisture on leaves; the Gordius worms were 

 certainly to be found on flowers, having no doubt been 

 deposited there by infected insects. 



A RE-DiscovERED BRITISH CocciD. — Mr. Green also ex- 

 hibited specimens of the Coccid Gossyparia ulmi, GeofE. (or 

 spuria of Modeer — according to the American authorities). 

 The present examples were collected by Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, on 

 a Cornish elm at Farnham, Surrey. 



Prof. Newstead, in his " Monograph of the British 

 Coccidae," made no reference to this species, and it had not 

 generally been accepted as a British insect. The late J. W. 

 Douglas, however, remarked (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 159, 

 Dec. 1885) that " Stephens, in his ' Catalogue of British 

 Insects,' gives the names of many species (of Coccidae), of 

 which no recent record of their occurrence in Britain exists, 

 and it is very desirable that the statement should be verified." 

 Amongst the names specified was " Gossyparia ulmi.'" 



The insect, though a very distinctive one, was inconspicuous 

 and could be easily overlooked. It might even be mistaken 

 for the pupa of a Coccinellid, the curious upturned fringe of 

 secretionary matter being suggestive of the remains of the 

 larval skin that surrounds the pupae of certain Coccinellidae. 



A gynandromorphous Ant. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited 

 two remarkable mixed gynandromorphs of Myrmica scabri- 

 nodis taken in the same colony at Weybridge, July 30, 1915. 

 He stated that he had dug up the nest and taken it home, 

 but only ordinary males had developed from the sex pupae 

 it contained. This brought the total number of gynandro- 

 morphous specimens of ants recorded up to thirty-five, of 

 which seven had been described by himself, and eight were 

 British. He also showed a pterergate of the same species 



