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lantern -flies, probably Fuhjoia lanteniaiia. These huge homoptera 

 are said by some writers to be luminous, whence their name, but 

 this statement is doubted, and not now generally accepted. 

 Another homopteron was very leaf-like. There was a mole-cricket, 

 reminding one of our British species, and a very large black wasp. 

 A considerable discussion took place on luminous insects. 



Mr. Step exhibited male and female examples of the so-called 

 hornet fly {Asilua crabrunifonnis), and remarked upon the rapacious 

 habits of the species, which hawks after other msects, often larger 

 than itself, or protected by stings, dragonflies, tiger-beetles, and 

 wasps having been recorded as falling victims to its stiletto-like 

 beak. He also showed examples of Tacliina (jroum and T. fera, 

 hairy flies which in the larval state attack the larva? of lepidoptera 

 and coleoptera. 



On behalf of Mr. West (of Ashtead) he brought up two photos 

 of dipterous papa; which Mr. Step thought to be a species of Cera- 

 t(i/io;t<>n. The insects had been found by Mr. West under the bark 

 of a dead pine on Box Hill. The photos were on a scale of x9 

 and X 20, and showed that the insects, after pupating within the 

 larva-skin, wriggled almost out by means of their spines, so that 

 the shrivelled larva-skin appeared like a long tail. 



Mr. W. West (Greenwich) exhibited (1) 13 cabinet drawers of 

 the Society's reference collections, 6 Coleoptera, 2 Orthoptera, 2 

 Neuroptera, 1 Hymenoptera, and 2 Hemiptera, including many 

 recent additions; (2) a box of types of Diptera presented to the 

 Society by Mr. Andrews ; and (8) his own collection of British 

 Homoptera. 



Mr. C. B. Williams exhibited some adults of the beetle Lochmma 

 siittnalis feeding on heather, from Cheshire; a willow stem 

 damaged by (\'ci(l())iii/ia aalivipenla, showing empty pupa cases pro- 

 jecting from larval bores, from Wimbledon, Surrey. 



Mr. A. Sich exhibited a series of coloured drawings of slugs, and 

 referred to the variation and habits of the different species. Among 

 them were Avion hortensis, Aiirioliniax ai/re.stis, Limaxtenellus, Liniax 

 fiavus, and Liina.v mart/inatitx. 



Mr. Andrews exhibited the following rare diptera, and con- 

 tributed notes on them:— L/s/jf piijuuia, Fall., LimnupJiora mtunm, 

 Vill., both from Porthcawl, July, 1913; Faiinia ciliata, Stein., 

 Milford Haven, June, 1913; P/wrbia parra, Ztt., Ciiattenden, 

 March, 1912 ; Chirosia parviconiis, Ztt., North Kent, June 1910 

 and 1912 ; and Macrouychia griseola, Fall, [viatka, Mg.), Porthcawl, 

 June 27th, 1913. 



