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wheat. Miss Ormerod also exhibited living specimens of the Noctua larve, 
which lately occurred quite as a “ plague” at Clitheroe, and observed that 
these differed somewhat from the published descriptions of the larva of 
Chareas graminis. 
Mr. H. T. Stainton remarked that he did not certainly know the larva 
of C. graminis, but believed those now exhibited belonged to that species ; 
with regard to the elm-leaf blotchers, he did not recognise them as 
Micro-Lepidopterous, but thought possibly it was a Coleopterous larva 
attacking them. 
Mr. E. A. Fitch recognised the sawfly larvee from Rochdale as belonging 
to the Dolerid@, and said that he had received similar larve from Romford, 
Essex, and Huddersfield, Yorkshire; in both localities they were sent as 
doing damage to the grass crops; he also observed how little was known of 
the life-histories of the numerous species of Dolerus. 
The Rey. A. E. Eaton exhibited drawings by Mr. A. T. Hollick, illus- 
trating some Ephemeride nymphs in Dr. Hagen’s collection. One of the sets, 
concerning the insect described by Dr. Hagen as Hphemera (?) pudica in 
1861 and provisionally ranked by him in 1875 with Heptagenia, showed 
its nearest ally to be Hphemerella. The remaining sets illustrated the 
nymphs of , a nameless genus allied to Palingenia (restricted) from 
Brazil, a Hewagenia and three nameless genera (besides EH. pudica) from 
North America, allied to E’phemerella, a Callibetis? from Peru, and a 
Chirotonetes? from North America. 
Sir Sidney 8S. Saunders exhibited several female specimens, with larve 
and pupa-case of Callostoma fascipennis, Macq., received from Mr. Frank 
Calvert of the Dardanelles ; the larva of this fly lives in the egg-cases of 
locusts and feeds on the eggs. Several of these egg-cases and a young locust 
(Caloptenus italicus), but two days old, which had been bred by Mr. F. 
Enock, were exhibited. Also a large box containing numerous specimens of 
Bombyliide which Sir Sidney Saunders had himself collected in the South 
of Europe. Sir 8. Saunders believed several of the species represented to 
be undescribed. 
The Secretary read the report of the Committee appointed at the last 
meeting to enquire into the history of the insect feeding on the locust-eggs 
in the ‘T'road, respecting which a communication had been received from 
the Colonial Office, as follows :— 
To the Entomological Society of London. 
G¥NTLEMEN,—According to your instructions, we have carefully con- 
sidered the despatch of Vice-Consul Maling at the Dardanelles to Acting 
Consul-General Wrench, a copy of which was transmitted from the Colonial 
Office, referring to the subject of an insect prevalent in that district whose 
larvee destroy the locust eggs. 
