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wliicli Mr. W. K. Darwin called attention in a lottor pulillHlied in a recent 

 nutnber of ' Nature' (vol. xxx., p. 140). Mr. Olliil' said that altlioiigli he 

 did not think there was anything particularly reraarkahic in finding a larva 

 of this kind attacking a worm, except as showing the great courage and 

 voracity of the creature, he brought it for exhibition this evening as 

 meral)ers of the Society might feel interested in seeing the specimen to 

 which Mr. Darwin had referred. 



Mr. Billups thought this no uncommon occurrence, as he had frequently 

 witnessed encounters between the larva of Ocyfius olens and earthworms, and 

 had kept Carahus auralus alive on nothing but earthworms for more than 

 five months. 



Dr. Sharp remarked that Cybister Rcesell had been kept alive from live 

 to seven years by being fed on earthworms once or twice a day ; he thought 

 that the larva exhibited was carabideous, and that earthworms were the 

 favourite food of carnivorous Coleoptera. 



Mr. W. Cole thought it very probable that the later stages of many 

 entozoa which were known to exist in earthworms, and had been sought for 

 in vain in birds, would very probably be found in coleopterous insects. 



Mr. H, T. Stainton communicated a newspaper cutting taken from the 

 'Dundee Advertiser' of June 27th, 1884, in which it was recorded from 

 Dunning, near Perth, that the gooseberry sawfly (Nematus rihes'd) larva was 

 making sad havoc with the black currant bushes ; he had never known this 

 larva to attack black currants in his own experience. 



Mr. Waterhouse and Mr. Fitch thought it extremely improbable that 

 the larva of N. ribeau would eat the black currant. 



Paper read. 

 Mr. J. B. Bridgraan contributed " Further Additions to Mr. Marshall's 

 Catalogue of British Ichneumonidae." 



August (5, 1884. 

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



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

 respective donors. 



Kxidbitions, dc. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited some curious white puffy balls he had found 

 on a vine growing in a greenhouse when staying at St. Helier's, Jersey, 

 doubtless the work of CoccidcB, and probably belonging to Lecanhmi (Pub- 

 vinaria) vitis. 



Prof. C. V. Piiley confirmed the determination, 



