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snake-flies, EapJiidia }naciilicollis and /t\ notata, of which 



particulars will be published shortly. 

 Okthopteua : Apart from the increasingly large number of 



aliens which come over with the imports of foreign plants,. 



among which the large Japanese locustid, Diastrauimena- 



marmorata, may be mentioned, there appear to be no records 



of species new to our list. 

 Odonata : Mr. Lucas informs me that things have been 



remarkably quiet this year, and mentions merely the capture- 



of Aijrion hastidatidii in fair numbers at Aviemore last June, by 



Col. J. W. Yerbury. 

 Plecoptera : One new species has been added to the British list, 



and recorded provisionally under the name of C/dorojierda- 



venom, by Mr. Kenneth J. Morton, from the Trent district. 

 Trichoptera : A new species Af/raylea pallidida is recorded by 



Rev. A. E. Eaton, a male specimen having been taken in 



Berkshire by Mr. M. E. Mosely, and I hear that other 



interesting discoveries by the latter gentleman in this family 



{Hi/tlri)jitili(l(r) have yet to be recorded. 

 Thysanoptera : Three new species are recorded by Mr. R. S. 



Bagnall from Oxfordshire, under the names of llaphitltyipn 



cephaldtes, IJ . jiDicoriiiii, and H. ob,^ciirij)eu)iis. 

 This concludes my notes on the current events of the year, but 

 before I proceed with the later portion of my address I wish to take 

 this opportunity of correcting a mis-statement which I made 

 inadvertently in the paper I had the honour to read before you this 

 time last year. I there stated that I believed we were indebted to 

 the late Mr. J. W. Tutt for the suggestion of dividing lepidopterous 

 ova into upright and flat groups, but I have since ascertained that 

 the idea originally emanated from Dr. T. A. Chapman, and to him 

 particularly I tender my apologies. 



I have chosen for the subject of my address this evening, as is 

 perhaps to be expected, lepidopterous ova ; and have restricted my 

 remarks, which I regret to say you will find both incomplete aiid 

 mainly superficial, to the consideration of species I have either 

 found myself laid wild, or which have been sent to me by friends on 

 whose accuracy of observation 1 felt I coiild rely. 



The nomenclature and arrangement I have borrowed from Mr. 

 South's recently published series of three volumes on the Butterflies 

 and Moths of the British Isles ; and the dimensions of the various 

 ova given are for convenience expressed in decimals of a millimetre. 



