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Mr. R. Meldola exhibited a specimen of Nonagria sparganii, Esp., 

 captured at Deal earl}' in last September. 



Mr. T. Wood exhibited Cls hUamellatus, a new species recently described 

 by him, captured at West Wickham on September 15th last. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited specimens of EjJiestia elutella, Hiibn., and 

 E. 2^arasitella, Stand., which were doing much damage to cocoa-beans from 

 the West Indies and South America in the Metropolitan Wharf of Messrs. 

 Anderson, Weber, and Smith; also Bracon brevicornis, Wesm., a parasite 

 of the EphestiiE. Mr. M'Lachlan suggested heat as the only remedy for 

 getting rid of the pests, but Mr. Jenner Weir and Mr. Fitch pointed out the 

 impracticability of application in the large bonded and other warehouses; 

 in the present case the stock affected exceeded 20,000 bags. 



Mr. J. J. Walker instanced an attack of Ephestia elutella on ship's 

 biscuits; when the biscuits were removed the moths came out in thousands. 



Mr. A. S. Olliff exhibited a specimen of Passandra 6-striata, Dalm., 

 captured on the Zambesi in 1878 by Dr. Bradshaw, lent to him by Mr. 

 Swierstra, of the Museum at Amsterdam. He remarked there was but 

 one example in Britain — a small specimen in Mr. Pascoe's collection, from 

 Angola. 



Paper read. 



Baron Osten-Sacken communicated a revised edition of his " Essay on 

 comparative Chsetotaxy, or the arrangement of characteristic bristles of 

 Diptera." 



Neic Part of ' Transactions.'' 



Part III. of the ' Transactions' for 1884 was on the table. 



December 3, 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. 



Baron C. R. Osten-Sacken (Haus Mai, Heidelberg) was balloted for and 

 elected an Honorary Member of the Society ; and James J. Walker, Esq., 

 R.N., a Subscriber, was elected an Ordinary Member. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton exhibited specimens of Goniodoma Millierella, bred 



from Statice virgata in the South of France, recently received from M. 



Constant, and British specimens of G. auroguttella, Fisch. -Rossi., bred from 



Atriplex laciniata, for comparison. Although Mr. Stainton quite believed 



