( Iv' ) 



deep velvety brown triangular patches, the macuiations being 

 entirely absorbed therein. 



Living Larv^ of Blatta. — Mr. Hugh Main showed living 

 larvje of Blatta ijermanica to illustrate their colourless condition 

 on first mnergence. 



Eare British Beetles and dipterous parasites. — Mr. 

 H. St. J. DoNisTHORPE exhibited examples of (a) Agrilus 

 biguttatus, F., taken in numbers in bark of old oak in Sher- 

 wood Forest, July 1908. It had not been taken in Britain for 

 about thirty years, this being the first record for the Midlands. 

 Formerly it occurred in Darenth Wood, but is not found there 

 now ; (b) Pyropterus affinis, not uncommon in Sherwood Forest, 

 July 1908 ; (c) a species of Phora, with pupse bred from 

 larvae which came out of the body of a Clerics formicarius taken 

 alive in Sherwood Forest, July 1908, with the Agrilus, and 

 probably parasitic on it ; [d) Trogolinus anglicanus, Shp., a 

 specimen taken at Bembridge, Augvist 3rd, 1908, with a speci- 

 men from Plymouth, and only known before to occur in New 

 Zealand and at Plymouth, where it was discovered by Mr. 

 Keys. This captui^e seemed to dispose of the idea that it could 

 have been introduced from New Zealand ; (e) Phyto melano- 

 cephala, Mg., bred from wood-lice taken at Bembridge, I. of W., 

 August 1908, with pup^e, and a wood-louse with dipterous 

 pupa in situ. The life-history of fly was hitherto unknown, 

 though the larvse of Phinophora atramentaria, Mg., a nearly 

 related species, have beenrecorded as parasitic on Oniscus asellus. 



Gynandromorphous pieris. — Mr. A. Harrison exhibited a 

 gynandromorphous example of Pieris na2n, bred from parents 

 taken in North Cornwall this year. 



Rare British Neuroptera.— Mr. E. R. Speyer exhibited a 

 case of rare and interesting dragonflies taken in the British 

 Isles in 1908, including («) Symjyetrumfonscolombii, Selys. A 

 $ and $ , taken in Hertfordshire on June 24th and July 

 27th respectively. The specimens were evidently part of a 

 migration, the 5 , being the first taken in England, since that 

 announced by Mr. Boyd in Cornwall in the E. M. M. Vol. 39, 

 p. 201 (1903). Mr. K. J. Morton is of opinion that the 

 insect takes more than a year to arrive at maturity, and, 

 therefore, those taken in England are probably in their second 



