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exhibited the insects recently taken by him in Kerguelen’s 
Island. There were about a dozen belonging to the 
Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera, besides some speci- 
mens of bird-lice and fleas. 
Sound produced by Halias prasinana.—Mv. Briggs exhi- 
bited a specimen of Halias prasinana, which, when taken, was 
heard to squeak very distinctly, and at the same time a 
slender filament issuing from beneath the abdomen was 
observed to be in rapid motion, and two small spiracles close 
to the filament were distinctly dilated. 
Living Larva in Andrena Trimmerana.—The President 
called attention to a living larva which he had that morning 
extracted from the body of a stylopized female of Andrena 
Trimmerana, taken at Reigate on the 4th of June,—this larva 
having a long attenuated telescopic process at the anterior 
extremity, and two piceous reniform appendages behind, like 
that of Conops, which he had frequently reared from Pompilus, 
Sphex, and Odynerus, as described by him in the ‘ Trans- 
actions’ (vol. iv., ser. 2, 1858, pl. 28). These larve had also 
been met with in Bombus by Latreille, Dufour, and others, as 
well as in Osmia, but not in Andrena, which moreover had 
been doubly victimized in the present instance, having the 
greater portion of the abdomen preoccupied by another 
invader, and thriving in spite of this and of the Conops larva 
subsequently lodged at the base. 
Podura found on Snow.—The Secretary exhibited some 
specimens of a minute Podura, forwarded to him by the 
Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, having been 
found on the snow of the Sierra Nevada, in California. 
Flea attached to the Neck of a Fowl.—Mr. F. H. Ward 
exhibited some microscopic slides showing specimens of a 
flea attached to the skin of the neck of a fowl, and which 
remained there after the death of the fowl. 
Jury 5, 1875. 
Death of Mr. Doubleday.—The President announced the 
decease of Mr. Henry Doubleday, one of the Original 
Members of the Society; and Mr. Stainton made some 
remarks on his entomological labours, and on the great 
service he had done for Entomology in correcting the 
nomenclature of the British Lepidoptera. 
