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specimens of Mschna isosceles and Libelhda fulva from 

 Norfolk Broads, taken in June last, and Orthetriim cserulescens 

 from Chagford, taken in July, 



Parasites on Flies. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a spike of the 

 grass Molinia cserulea with dead Syrphids, Melanostoma scalare, 

 Fabr., attacked by the parasitic fungus Empusa muscx, found 

 on Esher Common, October 3rd, 1908. Most were attached 

 by the point of the head only in a very peculiar manner, 

 and apparently all were females. 



Cryptamorpha desjardinsi in Hampshire. — Mr. 0. E. 

 Janson exhibited a specimen of Cryptamorplm desjardinsi, 

 Guer., found by Mr. F. C. Selous running on a table-cloth in 

 his house at Bai-ton-on-Sea, Hants, on June 26th. This beetle 

 is recorded as living in banana plants in Mauritius and 

 Madeira, and may have been introduced here in the banana 

 fruit. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe said that Mr. Bagnall had found 

 this species in the cellar of his house at Winlaton-on-Tyne. 

 Commander J. J, Walker reported having taken it in the 

 sheathing leaves of a banana in Kawau Island, New Zealand, 

 and Mr. G. C. Champion remarked that it was probably 

 imported among the dry leaves of the banana, not in the 

 fruit, as he had found various species of the allied genus 

 IWephanus in the pendent leaves of Musaceous plants in 

 Central America. 



Rare British Coleoptera and Hemiptera. — Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, on behalf of Mr. W. West, who was present as a 

 visitor, exhibited specimens of the following insects : Aleochara 

 crassiuscula, Sahib., taken at Gt. Yarmouth in May 1908 ; 

 varieties of Donacia dentipes and D. simplex, from Caistor 

 Marshes ; Nabis hoops, Schiodte, taken at Esher, in August 

 1908 ; and Idiocerus scurra, Germ., taken at Blackheath, 

 Kent, in September 1908. 



Rare and Variant British Heterocera.— Mr. L. W. 

 Newman brought for exhibition specimens of («) Crymodes 

 exulis from the Shetlands, including one female. The $ of 

 this species is very rare, and until this season (when some 

 six or seven were taken) only a very few were known. One $ 

 exhibited was of the rich dark brown form while the rest were 



