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aculeates and cliptera which were found haunting the same flower 

 heads. So closely, indeed, was the likeness between the insects of 

 the two Orders, that Dr. Davis, experienced entomologist as he is, 

 made mistakes, and was stung by hjaiienoptera which he handled 

 in mistake for moths. The well-known Cemydes autterocina, which 

 is a very close mimic of a wasp, was shown, and also several 

 syntomids of much greater scarcity, among them being a species of 

 Loficophlebia, which was new to science, and which the exhibitor 

 had described and named''' L. davm, in honour of its captor. 

 Several species of Matrocneine were included in the collection, as 

 well as some showy Arctiada: and insects belonging to other Orders, 



Mr. W. West (Greenwich), exhibited six species of the 

 coleopterous genus Ophoniis {Harpalus in part), with the ?edoeagus 

 mounted by the side of the males. Since the publication (" Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond.," 1912, pp. 477-642) of Messrs. D. Sharp and 

 T. Muir's paper on the Comparative Anatomy of the male genital 

 tube in Coleoptera the differentiation of closely allied species had 

 been greatly facilitated, and species that had been considered 

 common have been proved rare, and vice-versa. The species 

 exhibited were 0. brevicollis, 0. rufibarbis, (>. cordatnx, (>. rtipicola, 

 0. purallcliis and (K azxrens. 



Mr. H. W. Andrews exhibited a series of both sexes of the 

 dipteron, Hamatobia irritant, L., taken off some bullocks, near 

 Milford Haven, in July, 1912. He first noticed these flies 

 clustering in a dense ring at the base of the bullocks' horns. Mr. 

 Frohawk had noticed similar clusters on the horns of bullocks in 

 marshes in the eastern counties. 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited a large living larva of a species of 

 GeotvKpcs (Dung beetle). The larva resembled that of Melolontha 

 vidr/aris in general appearance, but the ventral surface was flatter, 

 and more particularly the third pair of legs was rudimentary, and, 

 so far as is known, quite functionless. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a series of Epnnda lichcnea, bred from 

 fifteen ova laid by a female captured at Eastbourne, in October, 

 1912. These produced an equal number of full-sized imagines with 

 practically no variation. They consisted of nine males and six 

 females. 



Mr. Coote exhibited bred examples of Papilio machaon. One 

 specimen was remarkable as being very much darker in the ground 

 colour than is characteristic of the British race. It was pointed 

 Out that there was a race existing in the Rhone valley, in which 



* " Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond." 1913, iii. 



