XXXV 



The Secretary read letters from the Rev. W. H. Wayne, of Much Wen- 

 lock, Shropshire, respecting the injury caused in July last to his plum, 

 cherry and pear trees by a small gelatinous grub, doubtless Blennocampa 

 cerasi (Tenthredo cerasi, Linn.) It was first observed three or four years since 

 iu small numbers on a plum tree ; in 1869 they caused the fall of nearly 

 all the leaves of a pear tree, and the total ruin of the fruit ; in 1870 two 

 large pear trees were totally spoilt, and not only pears, but large crops of 

 plums and cherries were rendered worthless. 



Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited a specimen of a gigantic Prionid beetle 

 from the Feejee Islands ; it was described by Dr. Dohrn in the Stettin 

 ' Entom. Zeitung' for 1868 (p. 201), under the name Macrotoma heros, but 

 was scarcely referable to the genus Macrotoma. 



Mr. Bates said the insect was a Xixuthrus, the only other known species of 

 that genus being from the Malayan Archipelago. He remarked upon the 

 fact that the Feejee Islands contain so many large and remarkable forms, 

 whilst Tahiti and the Sandwich Isles appear to have a very limited and 

 poor fauna. 



The Secretary exhibited some butterflies from Basuto-land, in illustration 

 of the paper by Mr. Trimen mentioned below. They were Leptoueura 

 Bowkeri (n. sp.), Erebia Narycia, Lycaena Letsea (n. sp.), L. Macalenga 

 (n. sp.), L. Mahallokosena, Zeritis Molomo (n. sp.), Z. Leroma, Callosyne 

 Evenina, Pyrgus Mafa (n. sp.), and Cyclopides Tsita (n. sp.). 



The Secretary exhibited a small collection of Lepidoptera captured by 

 ]Mr. Holdsworth, of Shanghai, in April last, at Snowy Valley, which is at a 

 height of 1200 feet above the level of the sea and surrounded on all sides 

 by hills. Amongst the butterflies were Charaxes Narcseus, Papilio Mencius, 

 Euchloe Scolymus, other species of Euchloe and Terias, species of Anops, 

 Dendorix and Polyommatus, Thanaos rusticans, and Pyrgus maculatus. 

 Amongst the moths were Brahmsea uudulata, and a Bombyx allied to 

 Heterusia and probably new. 



The Secretary also exhibited coloured drawings sent by Mr. Holdsworth 

 from Shanghai of an Argynnis, and of a species of the butterfly-mimicking 

 genus of moths, Epicopeia. The Argynnis was determined by Mr. Butler 

 to be the A. japonica of Menetries, a variety of the Indian A. Eudra of 

 Moore, which was itself only a local form of the European A. Laodice, 

 The Epicopeia was a fine black species, the hind wings caudate and 

 (together with the body) adorned with bright crimson markings, the whole 

 forming a good imitation of the above-mentioned Papilio Mencius; the 

 following note on its habits was sent by Mr. Holdsworth : — 



" The female is very similar to the male. Larva, full grown, 2^ inches ; 

 perfectly white and profusely covered with fine white powder, which comes 

 from the body at the slightest touch, leaving the dark skin underneath ; 



