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Election of Members. 

 W. H. Patton, Esq. (Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A.), and William 

 White, Esq. (Morden House, 55, Highbury Hill, N.) were balloted for and 

 elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Sc. 



Mr, W. F. Kirby exhibited a remarkably small and dark variety of 

 Scimia Cecropia, Linn., bred by M. Alfred Wailly. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited an Aphis from apple, and a large 

 ApJiidius bred therefrom, the cocoon of the parasite being formed underneath 

 the body of the Aphis. Also, on behalf of the Rev. F. A. Walker, three 

 dragonflies, captured in the island of Rhoda, opposite Cairo. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 identified these as a male Crocotheinis erythrcea, Brulle, and a pair of 

 Trithemis ruhrinervis, Selys. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited upwards of sixty specimens of Hemiptera, 

 captured at Headley Lane on January 14th last. The collection included 

 the following species: — Metacanthus jnmctijjes, Germ., Tropistethus holo- 

 ser iceiis, Heihu, Peritrochus jnuicticejys, Thorns., Dryvnis sylvaticus, Fabr., 

 Styynocoris sahulosus, Schill., Cyvms clavicidus, Fall., C. glandicolor, Hahn, 

 Monanthia costata, Fabr., M. cardui, Linn., Acalyp)ta parvida, Fall., 

 Piezostethus cursitans, Fall., and Anthocoris sarothawni, D. & S. 



The Secretary, on behalf of Mr. Samuel Stevens, exhibited specimens 

 of Andrena fulva, Schr., and read a note referring to their destructive 

 habits to a garden-lawn at Upper Norwood, " by burrowing in the grass 

 and throwing up small mounds of mould all over the lawn." Mr. M'Lach- 

 lan and Mr. Waterhouse said they had been consulted as to means of 

 remedying similar evils caused by this bee, and Mr. Waterhouse further 

 remarked that it was particularly abundant this spring in his own garden 

 at Wandsworth. 



Mr. A. S. Olliff exhibited a new species of Helota, an Eastern Asian 

 genus, collected in Angola by Dr. Welwitsch ; he proposed to describe it 

 under the name Helota africana. Mr. Olliff said that Lord Walsingham 

 had pointed out to him a similar and equally unexpected case of geographical 

 distribution in the genus Deuterocopus of Zeller, belonging to the Ptero- 

 pJioridcB, which up to this time had only been known from Java, and of which 

 he has lately received an un described species from Bathurst, West Africa. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited specimens of Isusoma orchidearum, Westw., 

 bred from insect-affected shoots of Cattleya TriancB, sent to him by Mr. 

 R. P. Percival, of Soutbport. The affected shoots were exhibited, also 

 specimens of swollen rootlets which bore evidence of insect attack, but from 

 which at present nothing had been bred. Mr. Fitch remarked that he still 

 believed the hosoma to be parasitic on some other insect, which was the 



