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Mr. G. C. Champion said the Fourretia was very common in Central 

 America, l)eing largely used as a hedge plant, and locally known as 

 "pinuela." 



Mr. AV. F. Kirby exhibited a beautiful coloured photograph of the 

 abnormal Scania, which was bred by M. Alfred Wailly [cf. Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1883, p. xxvii). 



Mr. H. T. Stainton called attention to the life-history of Aglussa pin- 

 guinalis, Linn., as lately worked out by the late Mr. Buckler (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., XX., 193), showing that the lard- and butter-eating capabilities of the 

 larva, with its special adaptation for such a mode of life, were merely a 

 fable, which had been fully accepted as a fact from the days of De Geer 

 and Reaumur to the present time. In answer to a question from Mr. Fitch, 

 Mr. Stainton said that Mr. Buckler was likewise acquainted with the larva 

 of Aglossa cuprealis, Hiibn., but how far its history had been written he 

 did not know. 



The Secretary exhibited photographs of the upper- and under-side of 

 the female Hypoceplialus annatus, Desm., on behalf of Dr, D. Sharp, and 

 read the following note : — 



" The accompanying photographs have been sent to me recently by 

 M. Antoine de Lacerda, of Bahia, and appear to represent the female sex, 

 hitherto unknown, of the interesting beetle Hypocephalus annatus. So far 

 as can, be gathered from these photographs of a mutilated example, it 

 appears that the female greatly resembles the other sex, but that the 

 prothorax is proportionally only about half as long, and that the enormous 

 hind legs of the male are replaced by limbs of a considerably less exag- 

 gerated, thougli similar, type. The supposition has been entertained that 

 the female of this insect might prove to be very different to the male, and 

 offer further evidence as to the position in classification of this much- 

 discussed insect. As regards the latter point, I may remark that the 

 sexual differences are quite such as we might expect to find in an aberrant 

 Prionid, and that they are therefore some additional evidence that Lacordaire 

 was correct in his views as to the position of Hypocepihalus. M. de Lacerda 

 informs mo that this species occurs in the interior of Bahia, and that 

 specimens have to be obtained through the aid of ignorant and unobservant 

 people, and tlierefore little information can be given as to its habits ; but it 

 is said to be found crossing roads and paths after showers in summer. The 

 female from which the photographs have been taken was probably picked 

 up dead." 



The Secretary referred to Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1883, p. cxlvi ; Bull. 

 Soc. Ent. Belgique, 1884, p.liii; and to M. Fairmaire's note, with figures, 

 in ' Le Naturaliste,' p. 397. 



]\Ir. F. P. Pascoe exhibited selections from a collection of Curciilionidcc 

 from New Guinea, consisting of specimens collected by DAlberlis and 



