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Mr. T. W. Brigps (wlio was present as a visitor) exhibited a Leucania captured at 

 Folkestone on tlie loth of August, at sugar; a second specimen, much worn, was 

 taken in the second week of October, within five yards of the same place. The insect 

 appeared to^differ from any species hitherto recorded as British. 



Mr. H. Pryer exhibited a specimen of Scuparia ZeWevi (Wocke), captured in the 

 railway station at Norwood Junction, on the 17th of August, 1867. This was the first 

 occurrence of the species in Britain ; biu the capture of a second specimen is announced 

 in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' vol. v. 131. 



Mr. G. S. Mosse exhibited a collection of insects from the State of New York: 

 they were principally Lepidoptera, and amongst them was a female of Papilio Turnus, 

 which, contrary to the usual habit, was coloured like the male. 



Mr. H. Pryer exhibited a specimen of Agrypnia picta (Kolenati), a new addition 

 to the list of British Trichoptera. The insect, a male, was captured at a gas-lamp at 

 Highgate, in June, 1868. 



Mr. Frederick Smith read the following note: — "The Secretary has called my 

 attention to the fact that the name CEstropsis, under which 1 described a new genus 

 of Aculeate Hymenoptera in the 'Transactions' of the Society for the present year 

 (Tr. Ent. See. 1868, p. 253). lias been applied by Dr. Brauer, during the present year, 

 to a genus of Trichoptera (Verb, zool.-bol. Geseils. Wien, 1868, vol. xviii. p. 263). As 

 Dr. Brauer's papei; was published before mine, I have now to propose for my new 

 genus of Aculeata the name Gastropsis, from the resemblance which the insect bears 

 to the Gastrus equi of Meigen, the CEstrus equi of old authors." 



The President read a letter from Mr. Albert Miilier, of Penge, to the following 

 effect: — "As regards British galls, Mr. H. Waring Kidd, of Godalming, and I are 

 jointly working at a descriptive list of all excrescences or deformations caused by insect 

 agency on plants growing wild or cultivated in these islands ; and for the guidance of 

 such persons as may be willing to aid us, a list of such plants has appeared in the 

 ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for October. Foreign galls and their insects, as 

 well as the economy of the latter, form the special study of the writer, who will at all 

 limes be happy to enter into correspondence with any one desirous to further the object 

 in view, either by contributing specimens or by giving information of any kind: this 

 pursuit is intended to lead, at some future time, to the production of a work similar to 

 tie one proposed by my late friend Mr. Wilson Armistead, of Leeds." 



Mr. Roland Trimen sent (from the Cape of Good Hope) some sketches of an 

 Orlhopterous insect, respecting which he wrote as follows: — " It is sometimes found in 

 gardens about Cape Town. The extraordinary development of the parts of the mouth, 

 particularly of the labrum and mandibles, makes me think it may be allied to the 

 Australian genus Anostostoma of G. R. Gray, with which, however, I am unacquainted, 

 I imagine this Cape cricket to belong to the Gryllidae ; but as my specimen has no 

 trace of wings, it is very probably only a larva, and may result in a member of the 

 Achelidae. I shall be very glad to hear anything that you can ascertain about this 

 ugly fellow, especially if the special use of such formidable mouth-armature be known. 

 1 tried my captive with leaves, but he would not touch them." 



Prof. Westwood said the insect was an Anostostoma, or was nearly allied thereto: 

 it might be the species figured by Stoll. [See Charleswoith's Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. 

 p. 143] 



With reference to the plague of so-called "mosquitoes" at Plumstead and Wool- 



