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December 7, 1881. 
H. T. Srartntoy, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 
respective donors. 
Augustus R. Grote, Esq., M.A., President of the New York Entomo- 
logical Club, was present as a. visitor. 
Election of a Member. 
A. J. Scollick, Esq. (Albion Lodge, Putney, S.W.), was balloted for and 
elected a Member of the Society. 
Exhibitions, éc. 
Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a variety of Ennomos tiliaria, Bkh., in which 
the transverse streaks in the fore wings were closely approximate on the 
costa, uniting in the middle of the wing, and were confluent to the inner 
margin. The specimen was captured at light this autumn at Cheshunt. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited specimens of Scenopinus fenestralis, 
Latr., with their pupa-cases, bred from dried roots of Aconitum ; a specimen 
of Phora rufipes, Meign., bred from Nematus ribesii, and specimens of 
Oscinis pusilla, Zett., bred from stems of barley. 
Mr. G. H. Verrall expressed surprise that the larva of Scenopinus should 
be found feeding on the Aconitum roots. This species was commonly known 
as “the carpet fly,” and its larva mostly fed on old cotton or woollen 
materials, frequently on old greasy horse-cloths, the fly being a general 
inhabitant of stable-windows; hence its name. 
Mr. E. A. Fitch remarked that he had bred Phora rufipes in some 
numbers, also a specimen of Phora minor, Zett.?, from the larve of 
Nematus salicis.” 
Mr. Verrall stated that he once boxed a living hornet (Vespa erabro) and 
several specimens of one of the Phoride@ emerged from it, after death. 
Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited the larva of an ant-lion, taken alive by a 
London grocer from a barrel of currants received from Zante. Mr. Pascoe 
said that it had lived in his possession for more than a month, but apparently 
in a semi-torpid state, and he could not induce it to eat anything. 
Mr. R. M’Lachlan regretted the imago could not have been bred ; he did 
not recognise this larva, which was too large for either of the tvo common 
European species of Myrmeleon; neither was it Palpares libelluloides. 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir remarked that the larva now exhibited was quite 
double the size of those which he had reared. 
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