( Ivii ) 



having been taken about eighty years , ago under a slab of 

 sandstone near Bridgenorth, Salop, by Mr. T. Marshall of 

 Leicester. 



African Tabanidae. — Mr. S. A. Neave exhibited some 

 African Tabanidae bred by him on his recent visit to Nyasaland 

 on behalf of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, including 

 Tabanus higuttatus, Wied, T. corax, Lw., T. ustus, Walk., 

 T. taeniola, P. de B., T. fraternus, Macq., T. maculatissimus, 

 Macq., T. medionotatus, Aust., T. ohsacripes, Ric, T. nagami- 

 ensis, Cart., T. laverani, Sure, T. sharpei, Aust., T. variabilis, 

 Lw., T. atrimanus, Lw., T. gratus, Lw. ; Chrysops wellmani, 

 Aust., C. magnifica var. inornata, Aust., C. longicornis, Macq., 

 Chrysops sp. no v., Haematopota decora, Walk., H. crudelis, 

 Aust., Haematopota sp. no v. He also exhibited the larvae 

 of most of these species. After making a few remarks on 

 the conditions under which these were found he also showed 

 a few of the more striking Tabanids collected on the same t'^ur, 

 including two new and peculiar species of Chrysops and two 

 remarkable insects for which new genera would perhaps be 

 required. 



Mines op Nepticula acetosae. — Mr. Sich exhibited 

 mines of the larva of Nepticula acetosae, Stt., in a leaf of 

 Rumex acetosa, L., from Richmond, Surrey. 



An Ichneumon new to Britain. — Mr. J. H. Durrant 

 exhibited an Ichneumon which he had captured in a mill in 

 Bermondsey on the 5th of December, 1913, and which had 

 been identified by Mr. Claud Morley as Nemeritis canescens, 

 Gravenh. {Campoplex canescens, Gravenh. ; = Idechthis oahu- 

 ensis, Ashm. ; = Amorphota ephestiae, Cameron). This Ichneu- 

 mon, which has not been recorded as British, is of economic 

 importance, being parasitic on Ephestia kiihniella, Z. The 

 specimen was taken in connection with the Army Biscuit 

 Enquiry. 



Families reared from the eggs laid by known females 

 of Papilio dardanus. Brown, at Chirinda, S.E. Rhodesia. 

 — Mr. C. F, M. Swynnerton read the following communica- 

 tion : — 



When I returned to Africa in 1908, and many times since 

 by letter, Prof. Poulton urged me strongly to breed Papilio 



