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asked the opinion of the fellows upon the three specimens, 
and suggested the possibility of their being the result of 
natural hybridisation between P. oleracea and P. rapae. 
Dr. Dixzy was of opinion that the three specimens in 
question were certainly not hybrids, and even probably only 
a variety of P. oleracea; he pointed out that they differed 
less from the P. oleracea exhibited than did the series of 
P. vapae from one another. Mr. RowLanp-Brown observed 
that the greater or less amount of grey suffusion was a 
common form of variation in the genus. Dr. Lonestarr 
agreed with Dr. Dixny, and remarked that P. rapae was 
certainly not an indigenous species in Canada. 
Earwics From Hykres.—Mr. W. J. Lucas showed three 
specimens of Huborellia moesta, Géné, received on April 3rd 
from Hyéres, from Dr. Chapman, with four others of the 
same species. Both sexes were shown ; but they look rather 
alike owing to there being little difference in the callipers. 
E. moesta is quite black. There are just the rudiments of 
elytra, but no wings. Antennae dark fuscous, legs partly so, 
partly black. He remarked that A. annulipes, which Com- 
mander Walker takes in Kent, is something like this, but 
not so dark, and without rudimentary elytra; it has also 
some white segments to the antennae, 
CenTRAL AMERICAN Nxeoponerip.—Mr, Lucas also exhibited 
a large ant, one of three specimens found this year at Swanage 
in a bunch of bananas, supposed to have come from Jamaica. 
The PrestpEent observed that the specimen belonged to the 
genus Meoponera, and was probably WV. theresiae, Ford, a 
Central American species. He added that the genus was a 
curious one, combining the possession of a sting with the 
single abdominal node characteristic of the stingless ants. 
Bar anp ParasrticaL Direreron.—Mr. F. Muir exhibited 
two specimens of the bat Miniopterus schreiberst, with Q Asco- 
dipteron embedded at the base of the ear. He also showed 
specimens and enlarged drawings of the ¢, ? winged and 
wingless, larva and puparium of the Ascodipteron, and read 
the following note :—‘ These all came from Amboyna (Dutch 
E. Indies). The male and winged female hatch out as normal 
imagines; the female, after finding her host, cuts her way 
