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1859 from a specimen taken by a Mr. George King at Torquay 
earlier in that year. Further specimens have been taken 
from time to time, usually at intervals of several years, as a 
rule near the south coast and generally, as in the present case, 
when two others were taken in South Devon, at more than 
one place. The species is a native of Southern Europe, and 
it is evident that the individuals that we occasionally meet 
with in this country are migrants, and their distribution 
appears to show that when migration takes place it is wide- 
spread, 
Mr. H. Sr. J. DonisrHorpe exhibited several strings of 
“ground pearls,’ Margarodes, probably M. formicarum 
Guilding, which a neighbour (Mrs. Dawson) had had sent 
to her from Jamaica, and was informed they were “ ants’ 
eggs.” He remarked that the Rev. Guilding had described 
the species from the West Indies in 1829, associated with 
ants; and that Mr. Trimen had also taken a species of Mar- 
garodes in ant’s and termite’s nest in Cape Colony. 
He also exhibited two specimens of a species of Cionus 
new to science which had been swept near Lake Windermere 
by the Rev. Canon Theodore Wood a few years ago. 
Major W. J. PenpLEBURY brought for exhibition :— 
(1) A dark form of the Carabid beetle, Anchomenus dorsalis, 
taken in Brecon. Mr. Buarr stated he could not recollect 
having seen so dark a form. No varieties are named by Fowler 
or Reitter. 
(2) A variety of the mosquito, Theobaldia annulata, not 
previously recorded in Britam. First found in Mesopotamia 
by Capt. P. J. Barraud, and recorded by him in the ‘“ Bulletin 
of Entomological Research ” in 1920 as a variety of 7’. annulata. 
Since received in the South Kensington Museum from Palestine, 
Macedonia and Denmark. 
The almost uniform ochreous colour at first suggested a 
desert variety, especially as it was the only form found in 
Mesopotamia, but in Palestine, Macedonia and Denmark it 
appears with the typical form. The colour difference is very 
sharply defined, and no intermediates have yet been recorded. 
There is no structural difference between the two forms either 
in the adult or larval states. 
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