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exhibited a gynandromorphic specimen of Eriogaster lanestris, 

 right side ?, left side S, bred last year at Eastbourne by- Mr. 

 E. P. Sharp. 



Rare Goliath-beetles.^ — Mr. 0. E. Janson exhibited a 

 specimen which he beheved to be the female of Goliathus 

 wisei, Heath, hitherto unknown, also specimens of G. kirki, 

 Gray, in which the white markings were very perfectly pre- 

 served ; all of these had been recently found by Dr. Baxter in 

 Usagara, German East Africa. 



British Eudectus and Oedemera virescens. — Mr. 

 Champion exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. W. Morse, of Leeds, 

 the second British specimen of the genus Eudectus, probably 

 a variety of E. wJiitei, Sharp, from Ingleborough, Yorks., and 

 a pair of Oedemera virescens, L., from Symonds Yat, Hereford. 



Suggested protective value op the Cocoon of 

 Lyonetia clerkella, L. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited, at the 

 desire of Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw, F.E.S., a cocoon of Lyonetia 

 clerkella, L., spun up on a cherry leaf. Mr. Hawkshaw sug- 

 gested that the fine silken web attached to the leaf on each 

 side of the supporting strands, and guy lines by means of 

 which the cocoon is slung up like a hammock, served as a 

 protection against ants. The webs are very loosely attached 

 to the leaf, and when touched with a knife become, with the 

 cocoon, a shapeless mass which sticks to the knife persistently. 

 Before an ant could reach the cocoon, its head and antennae, 

 Mr. Hawkshaw thinks, would become hopelessly entangled, 

 and would carry the whole away on it. 



Dr. Dixey thought that a possible objection to Mr. Hawk- 

 shaw's suggestion would be that another ant might come to 

 the rescue of the first, and might succeed in grasping the 

 cocoon in its jaws without getting entangled in the now 

 collapsed silken web. 



Mr. Donisthorpe considered that Dr. Dixey's suggestion 

 as to the assistance of another ant was quite likely to be 

 correct. 



Dichotomy op Anterior Limb in a Coccid. — Mr. E. 

 Ernest Green exhibited a Coccid with double anterior limb, 

 and read the following note : — Many examples of Dichotomy 

 of the limbs, antennae and other organs of insects have been 



