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Death of Fellows. 



The death was announced of the Hon. Fellow, Prof, L. 

 Ganglbauer, of Vienna, and also of Messrs. R. Shelford, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., and G. H. Grosvenor, M.A. 



Exhibitions. 



An Aberration new to Britain. — Dr. Nicholson showed 

 three specimens of Adalia obliterata, L., ab. sublineata, Weise, 

 an aberration not as yet recorded from Britain. It differs 

 from the type form in possessing black lines on the elytra, 

 and is intermediate between the type, which is unspotted, and 

 the ab. fenestrata, Weise, in which the elytra are almost 

 entirely black. These specimens were taken on Box Hill. 



Dark aberrations of Abraxas grossulariata, — Mr. G. T. 

 PoRRiTT exhibited various forms of the variety nigrosparsata, 

 together with the type specimen of var. nigra of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, all bred, with some two dozen other more or 

 less similar specimens, from larvae and pupae collected from 

 one garden at Huddersfield during the present year. 



Coleoptera from Oxford. — Commander J. J. Walker ex- 

 hibited series of the following rare species of British Coleoptera, 

 recently taken in the Oxford district : — 



Lathrobium pallidum, Nord., found in flood-refuse of the 

 River Cherwell at Water Eaton, Oxon. 



Apion annulipes, Wenck., ^ and $ taken by sweeping road- 

 side herbage (red clover, Trifolium pratense, predominating) 

 near Enslow Bridge, Oxon. 



Psylliodes luteola, MUll., by sweeping grass on the outskirts 

 of Kirtlington Park, Oxon. 



" Insect-catching Grass." — Commander Walker also ex- 

 hibited on behalf of Mr. A. M. Lea, Govt. Entomologist at 

 Adelaide, S. Australia, a specimen of the so-called Insect- 

 catching grass {Cenchrus australis) ivovaCaivus, N. Queensland, 

 with several Coleoptera, belonging to various genera, adhering 

 to the spinous awns. 



Aberration of Pyrameis cardui. — Mr. R. M. Prideaux 

 brought for exhibition a beautiful aber-ration of P. cardui, 

 closely resembling one figured by Newman (" British Butter- 



