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Pyrellia sp., — 2 cJ, 1 ?. 

 Musca sp., ? minor, Mcq. — 1 <?, 4 ?. 

 Calliphora villosa, E..-D., — 1 $. 

 Anastellorhina augur, F., — 6 o, 1 ?. 



Lonchaea sp., — 1 $. 

 Se})sidae. 



sp.,— 1 ?; sp.,— 1 o^ 1 ?; sp.,— 3 ?. 

 Sapromyzidae. 



Sapromyza sp., — 1 9; sp., — 1 $. 



Oscinis (Oscinella) quadrisiriata, Becker, — 4 ?. 

 sp.,— 8 (?, 3 ?; sp.,— 1 ?; sp.— 1 ^. 

 1 gen. et sp.,— 1 ?. 



sp.,— 3 c?, 1 ?. 



HEMIPTERA— HETEROPTERA. 



Capsidae. 

 sp., — 1. 



Dr. Marshall inquired whether the tree had been long in- 

 troduced. He said that in Africa very few insects frequented 

 the Australian Wattle. It appeared to take insects some time 

 to get accustomed to a new plant. He instanced the gradual 

 attacks made by them on peaches in Natal. 



Commander Walker remarked on the paucity of beetles in 

 the collection, which seemed as if they took longer than other 

 orders to accustom themselves to an imported plant. 



A NEW Species of Thaumaglossa bred from the Egg- 

 clusters OF Mantidae. — Mr. Arrow exhibited specimens 

 of a new beetle, Thaumaglossa bimaculata, bred from the egg- 

 clusters of Mantidae, and read the following notes : — 



In May last I described two small beetles, allied to the very 

 familiar Dermestes and Anthrenus, which had been bred, one 

 in Nigeria and the other in Mashonaland, from the papery 

 egg-clusters of Mantidae. Mr. C. J. C. Pool has since received 

 Mantis egg-clusters of two different species {Sphodromantis 



