found t,]ijil: (lie aiidnMonia of the first lnood of Af/riadea thersiles, 

 Cantr., difVcivd I'tdin t liosc of the second hiood in hciiiff liroader, 

 and containiiifj; more rows of points or ' ^loltidcs ' ('rraiis. 

 Ent. 8or. Loud., IDII, |). ;i()'.l, I'l. IdV). Tli.' invest i-aiion of 

 these structures has been extended hy Mr. I)all lo many other 

 s])ecies of tlie sid)fa,inilies nanie(l, with icsults that, are eare- 

 fnlly recorded in his |pa|ier. hi (1. itijinc, Linn., the summer 

 brood lias a- |iliimiile wliicli is broader in its proximal and 

 narrower in its distal part than that of the brood emernin^ in 

 the spriiiii; the ' t.Miiiina! chevron, 

 margin (.f the scale from which tJi 

 elongated in the former than in the 

 ences occur in (1. iKtjii, Linn. 



■"■ The outline drawings I exhibit are roughly copied from Mr. 

 Ball's figures. 1 lis plates in the Brussels ' Annales ' contain 

 representations of the seasonal forms of plume-scales in Syncldoe 

 da])lidice, Linn., and also of the corresponding forms in Pararge 

 and Co('ii.oiii/iiijih(( {Sdli/riiiac) and Lijcdena, ('//(riuris and 

 Everes ( Liicac iihmc).'' 



Biri'iKRi'MKs I'ROM Cyi'iii's. Ml'. II. .1. 'ri'iiNKii, exhibited 

 many of the Cyprian Bul,terHies with which his paper (read 

 later in the evening) was concciiied, and explained their charac- 

 teristic features. 



OUONATA FROM M.\('K DON I.A . ('apt. .1. W AIKRSTON ex- 

 hibited a set of .Macedonian Odonata and made the following 

 remarks : - 



The Dragonfiies exlubitcMl were collected by myself in 

 ill 17 I Ills, and annotated lists of them have been published in 

 vols, li and lii of '' The Entomologist." On the present occa- 

 sion, it may l)e of interest to recall llu' leading facts in the 

 history of one oi the species now before you, viz. Seh/siofhemis 

 'nif/ra, Lind. (Libellulidae), which to Entomologists of a quarter 

 of a century ago was little more than a nam(>. 



Although its range, as determined by the existing records, 

 is a wide one, the claim of this insect to be included in the fauna 

 of Western Europe rests upon two old and isolated specimens 

 alone. The original example. Van der Linden's type of Libel- 

 lula ni(/ra, desciibed in 1825, was a male from Terracina, on 

 the west coast of Italy. (It nuiy be reuuuked, in [)assing, that 



