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Mr. Billups also exhibited specimens of three Tenthredinidce, and made 

 the following remarks thereon : — 



Pcecllosoma Fletcher i, Cam., taken at Chertsey, May, 1882. Of this 

 species there are only two recorded captures, one by Dr. Sharp from 

 Braemar, and the other by Mr. Cameron at Rannoch. 



Teuthredopsis inornata, Cam. This apparently rare species is only 

 recorded as being taken once, by Mr. Bishopton, on birch, in June, at 

 Rannoch. I have met with it several times : one male taken at Chertsey 

 in May, 1882; one female at Headley Lane, June, this season; and two 

 in my own garden at Peckham. I think it not unlikely this species is 

 not so rare as Mr. Cameron imagines, but may possibly be mixed up in 

 collections with some of the other yellow forms of Teuthredopsis, such as 

 T. nassata, Linn., or T. dorsivittata, Cam., which it closely resembles. 



Tenthredo Lachlaniana, Cam. This is, I believe, the first recorded 

 female taken this side of the border, and Mr. Cameron only records its 

 capture twice in Scotland, — once by Dr. Sharp at Rannoch, and once by 

 himself at Braemar, — although he once found a male near Gloucester. 

 My specimen is from Headley Lane, May, 1883.* 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited four specimens of Athous difformis, Lac, 

 captured at Hastings this season by Mr. Collett. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. S. Saunders, an 

 apparatus for showing microscopic objects, made by Baker of Holborn. It 

 had a terminal milled wheel which would turn the object laterally, and had 

 a peg running through the axis of the wheel which would by pressure turn 

 the object longitudinally. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch remarked that Priocnemis Pascoei, Kirby (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 200; fig. Waterhouse's 'Aid,' pi. 137, fig. 7), is a 

 variety of Ichneumon lotatorius, Fabr. (Ent. Syst., ii., 141). He had com- 

 pared the type specimen of Mr. Kirby's species with the type of Fabricius' 

 I. lotatarius from New Zealand, still in the Banksian cabinet, and with 

 seven other specimens, also from New Zealand, in the National Collection, 

 and had no doubt of their identity, although the species was somewhat 

 variable. 



The Secretary read a communication from Prof. Thiselton Dyer, of the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, with reference to the supposed occurrence of Phyl- 

 loxera vastatrix upon vines in the colony of Victoria ; also a communication 

 from the Premier's Office, Melbourne, enclosed, and exhibited two bottles 

 containing specimens of vine-roots therewith transmitted. 



Mr. L. de Niceville communicated a " Note on the Papilio pohjdecta of 

 Cramer," having reference to the correct identification of Cramer's species. 

 He pointed out that Mycalesis pohjdecta , Butler (Ann. Mag., Nat. Hist. (3), 



* [There is a specimen from Munich in the British Museum. — W. F. K.j 



