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Election of Members. 

 Capt. Richard Holt (Heathfield Lodge, Granville Road, Wandsworth, 

 S.W.) and W. F. de Vismes Kane, Esq., M.A., M.H.T.A. (Sloperton Lodge, 

 Kingstown, Ireland) were balloted for and elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. G. Coverdale exhibited a box containing many Micro-Lepidoptera 

 and several Macros set, on pith with gum, without pinning, according to 

 his new process, described in the 'Entomologist' for June (xvii. 131). 

 Messrs. Dunning, M'Lachlan, and Fitch made some remarks thereon. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited galls on the roots of various species of 

 Cattleya, similar to those exhibited at the last meeting which produced 

 Isosoina orchidearuvi, Westw., which had been received from tlie Hon. and 

 Rev. J. T. Boscawen. He also exhibited the extraordinary heliciform 

 lepidopterous larva-cases from East Africa — about 200 miles inland from 

 Zanzibar — which he had described and figured in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxi., 

 p. 1 ; also, from the same locality, several other cases of Fsijchidm, one 

 species bearing a remarkable resemblance to a Dentalium ; and an egg-case, 

 probably of a Mantis, very similar to those exhibited at the last December 

 meeting but not identical, these being neither so large nor so delicate and 

 transparent. 



Mr. M'Lachlan also exhibited nearly 100 microscopic slides of British 

 Aphides, prepared by the late Francis Walker in 1847, which had been pre- 

 sented to him by Mr. P. Hubert Desvignes, son of the late Mr. Peter 

 Desvignes, who was one of the original membei's of the Society ; these 

 slides evinced great care and skill in microscopic mounting, considering 

 that nearly forty years had elapsed since they were prepared. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited several specimens of Cremastoyaster 

 scutellaris, Oliv., captured while running about on the pavement of Church 

 Street, Greenwich. As there was a cork importers in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the capture, and as the ants commonly nested in bark, 

 their presence was not diflBcult to account for. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited some remarkably fasciated strawberry plants 

 from his garden at Cheshunt ; it was thought that the attacks of a 

 Phytoptns had caused the abnormal growth. 



Mr. W. H. Patton communicated the following — 



Some Notes on the Classiftcatiun and Si/noni/mi/ oj Fig-Insects. 

 Being unable to accept the views as to tlie position of the Arjaonida 

 expressed by Sir S. S. Saunders in the valuable memoir published in our 

 ' Transactions' for 1883, I present to the Society the reasons, as briefly as 

 possible. 



