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Mr. R. M’Lachlan ae curculionideous larva found by Mr. G. F. 
Wilson, of Weybridge, feeding in the bulbs of lilies (probably from Japan), 
which had proved very destructive to some of those plants grown in pots. 
It resembled an Otiorhynchus larva, but was probably more closely allied 
to that of a Brachycerus (cf. Aun. Soc. Ent. France, 1875, pp. 95-6; 
1874, pl. iv. fig. i.). 
Mr. A.S. Olliff exhibited a specimen of Harpalus cupreus, Dej., captured 
this year in the Isle of Wight by Mr. A. C. Horner, of Tunbridge. 
Mr. H. B. Pim exhibited a specimen of a Telephorus which he captured 
last summer at West Wickham. This had been pronounced by the Rev.W.W. 
Fowler to be “ possibly a variety of 7. ditwratus, Fall., but probably new.” 
The Secretary exhibited a box of locust egg-cases, with specimens of the 
Bombyliid larvee found feeding on the eggs, transmitted by Sir Robert 
Biddulph from Cyprus; he also read a communication received therewith 
from the Colonial Office, and the following report on the same :— 
To the Council of the Entomological Society of London. 
GENTLEMEN,—We have considered the communication of 26th October 
received from the Colonial Office, enclosing copy of a despatch from Her 
Majesty’s High Commissioner in Cyprus, dated Nicosia, 15th October 
(Cyprus, No. 392), relative to an insect destructive to the locust eggs. 
We have also carefully examined the box of specimens transmitted there- 
with, and in accordance with your instructions we beg to lay before you the 
following observations thereon :— 
The box of specimens transmitted by Sir Robert Biddulph contained a 
quantity of earth in which were 58 locust egg-cases and 178 specimens of the 
egg-feeding larvae, some of which quitted the cases soon after they reached 
us; also two glass tubes, in each of which were six specimens of the adult 
larvee preserved in spirits, one containing specimens from the white earth- 
cases, and the other from those found in red earth. 
There can be no doubt that these larve are those of Dombyliide, and 
they appear to be identical with the specimens previously received from the 
Troad. Whether the larvee belong to more than one species of bee-fly, and 
whether they are those of the banded-wing species (Callostoma fascipennis, 
Macquart) is practically immaterial. They are certainly very closely allied 
if not identical and their life-history is similar. 
These Bombyliids, or bee-flies, in the perfect state are rather large 
and conspicuous two-winged flies, which have a very rapid darting flight 
and a general habit of hovering over flowers, when they produce a bee-like 
humming, hence their popular name. They feed on the nectar of flowers 
exclusively, which they suck through their long proboscis when on the wing. 
They can in no way be destructive to crops in any stage. 
Where the egys of the particular species of bee-flies now under 
