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Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited an imago of Pyrameis cardui, taken by 

 him in September last in the New Forest. Three of the five black spots 

 in the disk of the upper side of the lower wings had blue pupils ; the 

 specimen thus approached the Australian form of the insect (P. Kershawii), 

 the blue pupils in the black spots being one of the chief characteristics of 

 the latter species. 



Mr. Weir also exhibited a specimen of a large locust from the Kalahari 

 Desert, South Africa, which he had received from Mr. Farini. It had been 

 brought to England with the Earthraen now exhibiting in London, and was 

 stated to be used by that race as an ordinary article of food. 



Mr. x\. C. Horner exhibited the following British Coleoptera : — One 

 specimen of Myrmedonia Haworthi, Staph., from a miscellaneous collection 

 made by Kev. O. Pickard Cambridge at Bloxworth, Dorset. Three speci- 

 mens of Philonthus astutus, Er., captured near Folkestone — a species only 

 lately introduced as doubtfully British by Rev. W. W. Fowler (see Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. XX. 168). Several specimens of Dyschirius extensus, Putz,, also from 

 near Folkestone ; two specimens were caught in the act of devouring ants. 

 Five Hoinalota languida, Er., one H. jdanifrons, Wat., and five H. eximia. 

 Sharp (hitherto only recorded from Scotland), captured at Tonbridge. 

 Several H. luieipes, Er., from Tonbridge and Winchester, Several speci- 

 mens of Ocalea latlpennis, Sharp, from Tonbridge ; this is usually considered 

 a northern insect; 0. custanea, Er., was exhibited for comparison. Two 

 specimens of Stenus morio, Gr., from Tonbridge. A specimen of Trichonyx 

 MdrkeUi, Aube, found in a run of Formica Jiava under a stone at Lul worth, 

 Doriiet. A long series of Lathridim testaceus, St( ph., from fir-bark at Ton- 

 bridge. Several specimens of Cryphalus fayi from beech-bark at Tonbridge. 

 The two sexes of Phlceotrya Stephensi, Duv., showing the extremes of size 

 from about eighty specimens captured by night on the trunk of a half- 

 decayed horse chestnut at Tonbridge. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a series of forms of Chilian Colias, com- 

 prising C. Ciuininghami, Butl. (both sexes), from Punta Arenas, Straits of 

 Magellan ; a long series of C. minuscula, Butl., showing great variation in 

 the width of the black border in the male, taken at Coquimbo in August 

 and September, 1883 ; C. Vautieri, Guer., a series chiefly from Coquimbo, 

 Talcahuano, and Valparaiso ; also C. Leshia, Fabr., from Monte Video, and 

 a specimen of an unnamed species from Matucana, Peru (near Lima and 

 7788 feet above the sea), closely resembling superficially ScaUdommra 

 Hermina, Butl., but without the distinctive character in the venation of the 

 fore wings. 



Mr. Walker also exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera made in the 

 South Sea Islands in March, April, and May, 1883. It included ten species 



