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Papers read, dc. 
Mr. R. M‘Lachlan read the “ Description of a new species of Corduliina 
(Gomphomacromia fallax) from Keuador.” 
Mr. J. B. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled ‘‘ Some additions to 
Mr. Marshall’s Catalogue of British Ichneumonidae,” in which seventy-nine 
species were introduced as new to the British fauna, twelve being described 
as new to science. Mr. Billups and Mr. Fitch exhibited most of the 
specimens referred to. Mr. Fitch also made some remarks on the various 
apterous and subapterous forms occurring in the Ichneumonide and 
Cryptide, especially alluding to the instability and want of precision in 
many of the specific and generic characters amongst the Pezomachus 
group. 
New Part of ‘ Transactions.’ 
Part I. of the ‘ Transactions’ for 1881 was on the table. 
May 4, 1881. 
H. T. Sratnton, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 
respective donors. 
Election of Members, dc. 
Mr. R. W. Fereday (Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand), hitherto 
a Corresponding Member, and Mr. Charles Foran (Marshfield House, Kast- 
bourne, Sussex), were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members of the 
Society. Mr. James Edwards (Bracondale, Norwich), was elected an Annual 
Subscriber. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. Roland Trimen exhibited and made remarks on the following 
Lepidoptera, all of which had been taken in Natal by Col. J. H. Bowker :— 
The sexes of Pieris Saba, Fab.*, captured in copula near the Umgeni in 
January last. Mr. Trimen remarked that, as long ago as 1837, Boisduval 
had united the strikingly dissimilar sexes of this Pierid; but he was not 
aware that there was any record of positive evidence in support of that 
lepidopterist’s opinion. He was especially pleased that Col. Bowker should 
have been the captor of this pair; as in spite of his intimate acquaintance 
with the extraordinary sexual disparity prevailing among butterflies, he had 
* Figured, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1881, pl. ix., figs. 3, 4. 
