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April 2, 1884. 



J. W Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Election of Members. 



Edward Pyemont Collet, Esq. (76, Islip Road, Kentish Town, N.W.), 

 Stanley Edwards, Esq. (Kidbrook Lodge, Blackheath, S.E.), F. Lovell 

 Keays, Esq., F.L.S. (Fairmile Court, Cobhara, Surrey), Edmund Shuttle- 

 worth, Esq. (8, Winckley Square, Preston), and John A. Finzi, Esq., 

 formerly a Subscriber, were balloted for and elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



The President read a letter received from Mr. A. J. Spiller. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens of Sujalplius obscurellus, Ns., 

 and Diospilus oleraceus, Hal., bred from the cabbage-stem galls of Ceutho- 

 rhynclius sulcicolUs. Mr. Billups believed that the former species emerged 

 from the galls, whilst the latter species emerged from the earth-cocoons 

 made by the weevil larvae. Specimens of C sulcicolUs, GylL, its cocoons, 

 and gall were also exhibited. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir remarked that he had found it impossible to grow 

 any of the cabbage-tribe in his garden, owing to the amount of " club " 

 resulting from the attacks of tliis weevil ; the only remedy he had found to 

 be at all eflScient was the free use of gas-lime. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited three specimens of Dimeris mlra, Ruthe, 

 captured at Headley Lane last January ; and two specimens of Ceroptres 

 orator, Hart., bred from the galls of Cynips Kollarl. Also a long series of 

 the very local Philonthus thermarum, Aube, taken from a cucumber-frame 

 on the West Ham marshes. 



Mr. H. Bedford Pim remarked that he had captured twenty specimens 

 of P. thermarum in a hotbed at Dulwich last year. 



The Rev. Alfred Fuller exhibited an interleaved copy of the first volume 

 of Stainton's 'Manual,' containing several early figures of larvae made by 

 the late William Buckler. He also made some remarks on the thorough- 

 ness of the work done by his late friend, stating that not a figure would be 

 admitted into his work until he was satisfied of its likeness (many specimens 

 being repeatedly sketched before a figure was thought satisfactory], and not 

 until the complete life-history had been worked out. 



The President alluded to the pleasure it gave him to hear that the Rav 

 Society had procured Mr. Buckler's drawings. Mr. Fuller's remarks, from 

 a twenty-five years' knowledge of his work, were but another testimony to its 



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