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closer approach to the fullest auxo condition, which is known 

 to be characteristic of the wet or summer season. The two 

 specimens now referred to are of great value as having afforded 

 the actual synepigonic proof of the specific identity of the two 

 phases T, auxo and T. toplia. This identity had been suspected 

 so long ago as 1877 by Mansel Weale, who placed some of his 

 specimens of these forms in the Hope Collection. But, as the 

 writer has elsewhere stated, Mr. Marshall's experiments, the 

 results of which are now at Oxford, remove the subject of the 

 specific identity of these two forms f rom the region of probable 

 conjecture to that of actual proof." 



Mr. W. E. Sharp exhibited a specimen of the North 

 American Longicorn, Neoclytus erythrocephalus, F. He said 

 the species had been discovered in a sound ash-tree seven inches 

 from the bark, grown in the neighbourhood of St. Helens, 

 Lancashire. Some palings of American ash in the vicinity 

 suggested the origin of the progenitors of the colony ; but it 

 was not known how long they had been erected. Mr. Sharp 

 also showed examples of Amara anthobia, Villa, with a series 

 of A. familiaris, Duf., and A. lucida for comparison. They 

 had been sent him by the Rev. G. A. Crawshay from 

 Leighton Buzzard, where they occurred not infrequently at 

 the roots of grass in sandy places. Thinking their identity 

 with A. lucida doubtful, he had sent them to M. Bedel, of 

 Paris, who confirmed them as A. anthobia, Yilla, a species not 

 hitherto recorded in the British Lists. 



Mr. M. Burr exhibited a number of mutilated Stenobothrus 

 from the Picos de Europa, Spain. He said that these grass- 

 hoppers were taken at a height of about 1300 metres, on turfy 

 ground exposed to north wind from the Atlantic, and covered with 

 tufts of a short, dense, tough, and spiky shrub, together with 

 heather. Of the grasshoppers occurring on this spot, almost 

 every specimen had the wings and elytra more or less mutilated, 

 sometimes actually torn to shreds, entirely altering their 

 appearance. A notable exception was St. bicolor, of which no 

 single specimen was found mutilated. This species also 

 frequently indulged in flight, which the others were unable to 

 do ; and he suggested that its immunity might be due to the 

 vitality which has enabled it to become the most abundant and 



